It’s the second recall of a 3-month-old redesigned model that was scrutinized to prevent such problems after last year’s Firestone tire recall. The recall includes 50,000 four-door Explorers built at ...

Maintaining your car is more than just keeping the interior and exterior clean and making sure the engine is running like a dream. It's incredibly important to keep an eye on your tires too. Always ...

FRANKFURT (Sept. 17, 2009)—First it was scented tires, then colored smoke. Now Kumho Tire Co. Ltd. is developing laser technology that it claims will allow it to cut tread patterns into tires using ...

HANOVER, Germany—Continental A.G. has developed a polymer-meshing system that it's using to produce a cut-resistant tread compound for a new line of RDT-Master tires for rigid dump trucks. Conti said ...

My tyres still look okay to me, but the mechanic insists the treads are worn out. I do not really know how to check for that. What exactly are tyre treads, and how do they affect safety, especially ...