Dmack launches new, British manufactured WRC asphalt tyre range
Dmack has continued to improve its position in the FIA World Rally Championship with recent Drive Dmack team success, supported by newly launched, British manufactured tyres. Following its new gravel tyre range earlier in the 2016 season, the brand is bringing its new range of tarmac tyres to next weeks ADAC Rallye Deutschland – the first all-asphalt round of the series. Playing its mid-season joker, which permits the firm to homologate a new specification asphalt tyre, Dmack will debut a revised version of its dry weather DMT-RC2 along with the all-new DMT-W full wet pattern.
Continue ReadingValeo introduces web-based Techassist tool
Valeo Service UK has launched Techassist, a web based tool offering customers both a technical database to assist with Valeo products and a learning platform featuring a forum of useful information.
Continue ReadingWAI expands coils and leads range
WAIglobal is continuing to extend its wide range of coils and leads, with its coil programme now reaching 225 part numbers and ignition leads references growing to more than 750.
Continue ReadingLube Shuttle – grease only where you want it
Exol Lubricants has unveiled ‘Lube Shuttle’ an exclusive patented system of 400g cartridges designed to allow complete use of lubricating grease without leaking onto equipment, tools and clothing. The new system offers the most advanced technology for easy, quick and absolutely clean manual lubrication.
Continue ReadingAlloyGator suggests colour wheel customisation following football support
Football fans preparing for the season ahead are showing their support by customising their car in their club’s colours, alloy wheel protection provider, AlloyGator says. The company’s patented system prevents damage to wheels caused by scuffs from kerbs or potholes, and is available in a range of 13 colours, allowing fans to choose their club’s colours.
Continue ReadingHamaton offers extended warranty, update deal
Hamaton’s H36 and H46 diagnostic tools, produced by Ateq, are now available with a two-year warranty and five years of free updates. Hamaton Limited, the European sales and distribution centre of its parent company Hamaton Automotive Technology Co. Limited in China, unveiled their first diagnostic tools, produced by Ateq, at the Reifen show earlier this year.
Continue ReadingTyresure launches VT36 diagnostic tool
Tyresure Limited has added the brand new VT36, an affordable starter TPMS diagnostic tool, to its range. According to the company, the VT36’s low price makes the tool accessible to small and medium size tyre shops and garages entering into the fast growing TPMS market for the first time. Designed for tough tyre shop and garage environments, it is pitched as “ideal TPMS diagnostic starter tool”.
Continue ReadingYokohama proves best in wet on Evo magazine wet tyre test
Yokohama’s Advan Sport V105 tyre won the wet handling tests in EVO magazine’s 2016 ultra-high performance tyre test. The test, conducted at Continental’s proving ground in Texas used a 247bhp Ford Focus ST, fitted with 19” tyres for the first time in an Evo test (235/35R19). The full review placed the Yokohama tyre in join-second overall.
Continue ReadingTravis Perkins: only Pirelli tyres are robust enough
Say Pirelli and the first things you think of are high performance cars and stylish marketing. However, Pirelli’s truck tyre of the business has received renewed attention in recent years, especially in light of last year’s takeover of Pirelli by ChemChina. A key part of that acquisition was based on the belief that, while Pirelli is the undisputed technology leader of that relationship (especially in terms of car tyres), ChemChina’s group of companies is known to be at its strongest in the commercial vehicle or “industrial” side of things. Since then, there have been renewed efforts to develop Pirelli truck tyre position in the UK, Europe and globally – a position that is likely to be augmented by addition production capacity (via the ChemChina group companies) in China as well as their brands. Set against this backdrop, Pirelli recently highlighted its partnerships with well-known truck fleets – notably Travis Perkins group here in the UK, a company it has supplied for 20 years.
Continue ReadingBright adopting ‘open door’ approach at Automechanika 2016
It is no secret that China continues to play its role in the development of the European tyre market. Chinese equipment firm Bright Technology hopes to take this a step further at Automechanika 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany when the company unveils its new double-decker concept booth which will display a “revealing” digital photographic/video tour of the company’s production and design facilities.
Continue ReadingWorld record for Federal-Mogul Motorparts
Federal-Mogul Motorparts, a division of Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation, supplied its latest Ferodo and Champion products to a world record-breaking road trip. Covering over 15,000km across the entire Eurasian continent between the city of Magadan, Russia and the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, the drive was completed in six days, nine hours and 38 minutes, beating the previous record of eight days and 15 hours. The team drove a Volkswagen Touareg, which used Ferodo brake products and Champion glow plugs, filters and wipers.
Continue ReadingTrax wins £1 million a year GM Europe balance weight supply deal
UK-based Trax JH Ltd, Europe’s second largest wheel weight manufacturer, has won the contract to supply all General Motors (Vauxhall/Opel) Europe plants with steel adhesive balance weights. The new steel adhesive weights will be supplied to car manufacturing plants in Germany, Spain, UK and Poland. Adhesive balance weights now comprise some 80 per cent of the value of all weights purchased by General Motors Europe.
Continue ReadingMatador HR4 now available in size 315/70 R22.5
The Matador truck and bus tyre portfolio has been extended with additional size options within the HR4 range. Both the steer axle F HR4 and the drive axle D HR4 lines now include a 315/70 R22.5 fitment in addition to the size 315/80 R 22.5 tyres introduced last year. The tyre maker comments that both rolling resistance-optimised tyres offer optimal control on all road surfaces and are an affordable solution for trucks and buses engaged in regional and motorway operations.
Continue ReadingMichelin CrossClimate ‘exceeds all expectations’ at British Gas
British Gas states that the Michelin CrossClimate has “exceeded expectations”. Britain’s largest energy provider’s 13,000-strong commercial vehicle fleet has been running on the tyre for more than a year; it switched in mid-2015 after fleet manager Colin Marriott tested the tyre at a launch event in Geneva, comparing the technology to Michelin’s winter and summer tyre ranges, as well as competitors’ all-season tyres. The British Gas deal is symbolic of Michelins success in rethinking a tyre to be fitted year-round in moderate climates like the UKs, set against the sustained failure to increase the share of winter tyres in the country.
Continue ReadingYourtyres.co.uk offers ways to plan for winter to ‘stay ahead of the game’
Yourtyres.co.uk, an exclusive British online platform for B2B professionals from Europe’s leading online tyre retailer Delticom AG, has encouraged dealers and workshops to plan for winter in advance and ensure a competitive advantage for themselves. The platform states that it has already stocked up with winter tyres from all product segments.
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