Does your Car Need New Tyres?

The main difference between a tyre built with a Passenger construction and a tyre with Light Truck construction is the strength of the carcass.

Passenger construction tyres are being used more and more by vehicle manufacturers for road use as they offer a slightly higher level of ride comfort, with rounded shoulders that mean they are less likely to be upset by road irregularities. The downside of this is they can be more easily damaged if used off-road.

A Light Truck construction tyre has a much stronger carcass with more sidewall rubber, which means you get a tyre that can carry heavier loads better, is more resistant to damage (especially with its straighter sidewalls) and will last longer as it will generally have deeper tread than its passenger constructed counterpart.

Cooper Tyres are Made to Last

Cooper Tires have two warranties for their tyres:-

• Unique Lifetime Manufacturer’s Warranty - Australia-wide warranty against manufacturing faults, for the life of the tread or for 72 months. Adjusted on a pro-rata basis.
• Capital City Mileage Warranty. For 33 years in the USA and 18 years in Australia, Cooper Tires were the first tyre company to provide 4WDrivers with a mileage warranty, 50 to 90,000 kms, depending on size and pattern. Although regional cities don't provide this unique warranty, Cooper Tires will usually outlast most competitor brands, even when used in those difficult conditions beyond normal use when rapid wear can occur in any brand of tyre.

Kumho is Korea’s biggest tyre manufacturer, supplying tyres to the global market. Its product development has seen it involved in several forms of motor sport. In Australia this has included the Formula 3 open wheel category.

The range available includes the high performance Ecsta line with directional and asymmetric patterns, as well as a full range of 4WD tyres to cover all applications and terrain. Kumho supply tyre to Hyundai and Kia as original equipment.

KUMHO offers a tire line to fit virtually every driver and vehicle requirement. When purchasing KUMHO tires, you should consider the following:

All-Season vs. Performance vs. Touring

• All-Season

  Provide good all-around traction for wet, snowy and icy road conditions deliver superb tread wear & tire noise characteristics

• Performance

  Enhance a vehicle's handling capabilities on wet and dry roads usually exhibit increased tire noise and lack long tread wear life feature larger tread elements to provide a stiff tread area for handling performance

• Touring

  Bridge the gap between All-Season & Performance tyres combine the technology for All-Season tread wear characteristics with Performance handling & grip exhibit very little tire noise and excellent ride comfort

Hankook Tyres is one of the world's largest tyre manufacturer

For radial tyres for passenger cars, light trucks (SUVs, RVs, and etc.), trucks, and buses. Hankook develops cutting-edge technologies to upgrade customer satisfaction through high-quality products.

Through sales in 185 countries around the world, Hankook Tyre is ranked 7th in global sales revenue. The company has more than 14,000 employees in 4 Regional HQs, over 20 overseas subsidiaries and 5 R&D Centres around the world and makes 70% of revenue through overseas markets.

Hankook tyre sold tyres worth US$100 million to a number of world-leading automakers in 2005. As our cutting edge technologies have gained greater recognition in the U.S. market and as several automakers have chosen us as their major tyre supplier, they expect to see increased sales of replacement tyres as well as enhanced brand awareness and trust. they currently supply to and are in negotiations with global automakers such as General Motors, Chrysler, Toyota and others to supply original equipment (OE) tyres. they will continue to put all of our efforts into expanding Hankook tyre's share of the OE market.

The Hankook tyre out-performed 10 competitors in wet braking. Gute Fahrt also gave the Ventus S1 evo its highest recommendation for noise, comfort and wet and dry handling.

Tested on a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van, the Hankook was best in the wet and rated highly in other criteria, including rolling resistance.

Hankook's Ventus S1 evo and RA14 radial are now available in Australia.