The Science Of How Cooper Tires Support A Vehicle

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The Science Of How Cooper Tires Support A Vehicle Many people have wondered how Cooper tires are capable of supporting the weight of a vehicle when they are made predominantly of rubber filled with pressurized air. When it comes to the important functions of tire, there are many variables and key factors that come into play, so there is no straight answer when it comes to explaining how it all works. On the other hand, you don’t have to be an automotive engineer to grasp the basics of how it all comes together, so we will simply stick to the basics instead of getting too scientific. To start with, let’s not allow ourselves to get confused by the fact that a tire is made out of rubber, because the rubber only serves to give form to the real important component: the air. When a container is pressurized, the outer walls of that container are relegated with maintaining that pressure, so the easiest way to measure pressure is to find out how much weight it is forcing on the outer walls, which broken up into pounds per square inch (PSI). When talking about a tire, the walls in question are made up of the rubber and wire that is the tire’s exterior. Most tires are recommended to have about thirty-five pounds per square inch, which tells us that each square inch of your tire’s surface is responsible for holding back thirty-five pounds. By determining the PSI of a tire, you know the amount of weight that can be supported by a certain area of that tire’s surface. When you consider that a tire is inflated to thirty-five PSI, you then know that four tires, each with one square foot of surface touching the ground, can hold up a combined total of over sixteen hundred pounds. When you have more weight to manage, you either get larger tires with more surface area touching the ground at a time or you raise the amount of pressure within. You may assume that a big tire with low PSI or a small tire with high PSI could support the same amount of weight, but that ignores a particular balance that we must adhere to. Not only will the vehicle’s handling suffer from the small amount of tire surface touching the road; a single pothole could shred your tire thanks to the excessive pressure weakening its resilience. Underinflated tires wear out pretty quickly thanks to the extra force necessary to roll a tire with too much surface on the ground and the amount of heat it causes, not to mention the car will be all over the road. So as long as we maintain the balance of air pressure and tire surface, Cooper tires can maintain a vehicle with no trouble at all. Read more about it by clicking here at Cooper Tires and you might also like DiscountTireDirect.Com. Tons of back-links from a wordpress plugin link for your sites. For further details, Visit The Science Of How Cooper Tires Support A Vehicle

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