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Remember to Check Your Tyres Before Going on Holiday

Remember to Check Your Tyres Before Going on Holiday

With the holiday season starting, Continental strongly advises all motorists to examine their tyres carefully - not only checking the tread depth, but also looking for any damage that might have occurred to the tread or sidewall. ... Continue reading

The Michelin® Primacy MXM4® Luxury Touring Tire Now Available for Consumers Who 'Want It All'

The Michelin® Primacy MXM4® Luxury Touring Tire Now Available for Consumers Who 'Want It All'

Safety, All-Weather Handling, Great Ride Quality, Comfort, and a 55,000 Mile Warranty GREENVILLE, S.C., July 1 -- Today, luxury vehicle owners have a new tire choice with the MICHELIN Primacy(TM) MXM4® all-season tire now in market, offering increased safety by stopping up to 19 feet shorter than a leading competitor( ... Continue reading

Dave's Dittys

Dave's Dittys

Dave is a licensed auto mechanic with over 40 years in the trade. For the past 24 years he has operated Dr. H. Honda Specialists in Etobcoke(Toronto). Dave the neighborhood mechanic can be heard answering his neighbors car questions on AM740 radio each Saturday at 9 AM. Some of these conversations will also be publishe ... Continue reading

Dave's Q&A

Dave's Q&A

Dave Redinger - The Neighborhood Mechanic

Dave Redinger - The Neighborhood Mechanic

Dave is a licensed auto mechanic with over 40 years in the trade. For the past 24 years h has operated Dr. H. Honda Specialists in Etobcoke(Toronto). Dave the neighborhood mechanic can be heard answering his neighbors car questions on AM740 radio each Saturday at 9 AM. Some of these conversations will also be published ... Continue reading

Bridgestone Dueler H/P Sport 4x4 Tyre "Highly Recommended"

Bridgestone Dueler H/P Sport 4x4 Tyre "Highly Recommended"

The latest 4x4 summer tyre test confirms the excellent and balanced on-road performance designed into the Dueler H/P Sport by Bridgestone. In the annual 4x4 tyre test conducted by German magazine Auto Zeitung issued in June 2010, the Dueler H/P Sport receives the highest rating: "highly recommended". ... Continue reading

Electric City Car XD Goes to Mass-Production with OZ Wheels

Electric City Car XD Goes to Mass-Production with OZ Wheels

Dok-Ing and Vulkall, the leading tire and wheel retailer in Croatia, made the agreement with Italy's OZ S.p.A. for future supplies of XD electric city car. In the production stage XD will be set with prestigious Italian OZ wheels and top Michelin, Pirelli or Bridgestone tires. ... Continue reading

New Passat CC Equipped Exclusively with Tires from Continental

New Passat CC Equipped Exclusively with Tires from Continental

For its new exclusively equipped Passat CC, Volkswagen has decided on tires from Continental. The new ContiSportContact 3 with ContiSeal technology is now being factory-fitted on the new, highly luxurious Passat CC. The tire, in the size of 235/40 R 18 95 W XL, is approved for speeds of up to 270 km/h. ... Continue reading

Good Car Care Advice from Tom T - #4

Good Car Care Advice from Tom T - #4

Is a Wheel Alignment Necessary When Replacing Tires? Dear Tom, I love your radio show and listen to it every week on XM Radio. I own a ‘98 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP with 56k miles. I recently purchased four new tires, BF Goodrich Traction T/A. Ever since the new tires were installed, the car pulls to the right. The c ... Continue reading

Yokohama Tire Corporation's Sustainable Living Wall Display Wins Exhibitor Magazine Award

Yokohama Tire Corporation's Sustainable Living Wall Display Wins Exhibitor Magazine Award

FULLERTON, June 17, 2010: Yokohama Tire Corporation’s eco-sensitive “living wall” display, shown at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show, has been honored with a Bronze Award by Exhibitor magazine in its prestigious and highly-coveted annual Design Awards, announced in the May 2010 issue. Exhibitor, “the ... Continue reading

Yokohama Adds Orange Oil-Infused Race Tires to Pikes Peak Electric Buggy

Yokohama Adds Orange Oil-Infused Race Tires to Pikes Peak Electric Buggy

FULLERTON, June 16, 2010: Yokohama Tire Corporation’s ADVAN® ENV-R2™ orange oil-infused race tires have another mountain to conquer…literally. Already the official spec tire in the IMSA Patrón GT3 Challenge by Yokohama and the new ALMS GT3 Challenge (GTC) Class, the ENV-R2 is now poised to take on ... Continue reading

Goodyear Donates 100-Year-Old Airship Lifeboat to Smithsonian

Goodyear Donates 100-Year-Old Airship Lifeboat to Smithsonian

SUFFIELD, Ohio, June 7 -- The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is making another significant gift to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Wednesday with the donation of a 100-year-old lifeboat from Goodyear's earliest lighter-than-air endeavor - the airship Akron built in 1911. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.co ... Continue reading

Yokohama Tire Corporation's New 4-Year Contract with Union Highlights Positive Working Relationship

Yokohama Tire Corporation's New 4-Year Contract with Union Highlights Positive Working Relationship

FULLERTON, June 7, 2010: The new four-year contract between Yokohama Tire Corporation’s manufacturing plant in Salem, Virginia and the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1023 signifies the positive working relationship between the two sides, according to Rex Simpson, Yokohama vice president, administration. Previousl ... Continue reading

Yokohama Tire Corporation To Release Series Of Educational Videos

Yokohama Tire Corporation To Release Series Of Educational Videos

<b>First “Yokohama Tire Tips” segment – featuring off-road racing champion Cameron Steele – to go live on the company’s Web site and YouTube during Tire Safety Week</b> FULLERTON, June 5, 2010: To increase public awareness about a wide variety of tire-related subjects, Yokohama Tire Corporation ... Continue reading

Drivers on Yokohama Tires Claim Redline Time Attack Victories at Auto Club Speedway

Drivers on Yokohama Tires Claim Redline Time Attack Victories at Auto Club Speedway

FULLERTON, June 4, 2010: Yokohama Tire Corporation-shod race cars took the overall win and earned three first-place finishes at the Redline Time Attack event at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, May 29-30. The drivers scored the wins on Yokohama’s ADVAN A005® and ADVAN Neova® AD08 tires. The Redline ... Continue reading

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