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FullboreUSA Range Arrives in Europe

The Japanese engineered motorcycle tyre brand FullboreUSA has developed a following stateside, and its popularity is said to be gaining within the racing fraternity, an acceptance that has been reflected by increasing North American sales figures in 2008 and 2009. Here on this side of the pond the FullboreUSA brand is brand new. The range is exclusively available through Delticom’s various national websites – at present FullboreUSA products can be purchased in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Poland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and the Czech Republic.

28th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Alcoa Releases 17.5×6.75-inch Wheel for Low Deck Trailers

Alcoa has launched a new 17.5 x 6.75 trailer wheel with 10 bolt holes on a 225 mm PCD. The wheel is comes in sizes 245/70 R 17.5 and 235/75 R 17.5 and will be available in Europe from mid-August. It is suitable for: low deck trailers for transport of heavy and oversized vehicles and loads; trailers and semi-trailers for volume transport; special trailers for transport of passenger cars.

28th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

UK and Ireland Europe’s Top Tyre Safety Offenders

The UK and Ireland are reportedly Europe’s worst offenders when it comes to driving with dangerous tyres. That’s the verdict of tyre manufacturer Michelin, which is embarking on its sixth year of running Fill Up With Air, a European tyre safety campaign. Based on checks of 50,000 cars across 27 countries, only Latvia, Greece, Lithuania and Estonia have a worse record with Austria and Germany being consistently the most safety conscious. Out of 5,000 UK cars surveyed by Michelin in 2007/08, more than 43 per cent were found to have “dangerously” under-inflated tyres, risking an accident. (For the purposes of this campaign dangerous means between 8 and 14 psi off recommend pressures).

Motoring journalist Vicki Butler-Henderson, who is promoting the campaign, said: “Tyres are the only contact a vehicle has with the road and it always amazes me how little care we take as a nation in terms of looking after them. We have to remember that cars are potential lethal weapons and it is our duty to ensure that we make them as safe as possible and minimise the risk of potentially lethal accidents.”

24th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Says “Da” to Russian Language Guides

Russians wishing to spend their hard earned roubles abroad can now draw upon expert help when visiting Paris, thanks to the launch of Michelin’s first Russian-language guide. The Cyrillic version of the Michelin Paris Green Guide is one of a number of guides, maps and atlases now on sale in bookshops across Russia. Apart from the Paris Green Guide, the range on offer is at present solely available in English – however Michelin states it will release four further Russian-language Green Guides before the end of the year.

24th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Analysts say Euro Auto Industry up 5%

An analyst’s note from Deutsche Bank suggests that vehicle registrations across Europe could be rising for the second month in succession. Conversations with the industry have led the analyst to predict a rise of 5 per cent, with particular strength in Germany (up 35 per cent) and Italy (up 14 per cent. The UK (+2 per cent) and France (no change) have remained steady, while the other country to have initiated sales through scrappage schemes, Spain is down 14 per cent. The not concludes that Deutsche Bank expects the market to be 3 per cent lower in quarters three and four in 2009, following a 3 per cent decline in quarter two and a 16 per cent drop in quarter one.

21st July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Bosch Extends its ‘ESPerience’ Website

Bosch has enhanced and extended its Electronic Stability Program (ESP) consumer website. Introduced by Bosch in 1995, ESP is a vehicle active chassis braking safety system that can prevent a vehicle going into a potential skidding situation. ESP is, comments Bosch, three chassis system technologies in one – Antilock Braking (ABS), Traction Control (TCS) and ESP. Visitors to www.bosch-esperience.co.uk can gain access to all the information on this proven life-saving vehicle technology and view on-track driving demonstrations and animations of how the technology works.

16th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin to Launch First 295/60R22.5 Multi-Purpose Tyre

In August 2009, Michelin will introduce the market’s first 295/60R22.5-size multi-purpose tyre – the Michelin X MultiWay XD for truck drive axles. With the new tyre, comments Michelin, drivers of large-capacity commercial vehicles in Europe will be able to travel safely on all types of road and in all weather conditions.

The tyres that equip large-capacity and car-carrier trucks are confronted with a range of challenges, the French tyre major notes. They must be able to travel thousands of kilometres on motorways in summer and winter, access loading areas on national and smaller roads, and sometimes make city deliveries on traffic-congested streets. At the same time, trucking companies need to be able to carry heavier loads, reduce delivery times and optimise costs, while maintaining superior safety performance.

16th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

New Car Market Begins to Pick Up

The market for new passenger cars in Europe (EU27 and EFTA markets) displayed a modest increase of 2.4 per cent to 1,461,859 units in June on the back of scrappage incentive schemes in operation in more than ten EU Member States. June’s figures represent the first market increase in 14 months. Accumulative figures for the first half of 2009 show an 11 per cent drop in European new car registrations compared to the same period in 2008, with a total of 7,425,762 new cars registered compared to 8,346,828 the year before.

15th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Snap-on Gains WDK Training Accreditation

Snap-on Equipment equipment recently became the first garage equipment manufacturer to gain independent, third-party authorisation to provide training courses for mounting and demounting run-flat and UHP tyres at its European Competence Centre in Pfungstadt, Germany. WDK, the Association of the German Rubber Industry, provided the authorisation, which included certification of turntable and roller-type tyre changers.

Snap-on Equipment, Europe’s leading manufacturer of garage equipment, offers a comprehensive range including tyre changers and wheel balancers. Products under the Hofmann and John bean brands include entry-level machines that are ideal for low-volume workshops, through to top-of-the-range equipment for high-volume fast fit operations.

15th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Delticom Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Europe’s leading online tyre business, Delticom AG (mytyres.co.uk in the UK), has been celebrating its 10th Anniversary by offering special additional discounts of up to 10 per cent off its normally competitive prices. “The formula for our success is our more than 3 million satisfied customers to date and the fact that we do not want to stop being better,” Rainer Binder, CEO of Delticom AG, explained, adding: “More and more drivers buy their tyres online. In the current economic situation across Europe, a rising number of consumers are discovering favourably priced purchasing opportunities on the Internet, which they can find with us in 35 countries and in more than 100 online shops.” According to Delticom, the company’s prices are on average 20 to 25 per cent cheaper than traditional tyre dealers. Moreover customers are offered a worldwide network of about 24,000 service partners, who mount the tyres professionally for “reasonable prices.”

14th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Lands Moto2 Tyre Deal

Dunlop has secured the contract to supply tyres to the new Moto2 class, which gets underway in 2010. The company will supply 3.75 x 17-inch front and 6.00 x 17-inch rear tyres to the series that replaces the 250cc World Championships.

Speaking about the three-year deal, Dunlop Motorcycle sales and marketing director Europe, Middle East and Africa, Sharon Antonaros, said “We’re excited about building on the expertise gained over fifty years of continuous participation in Grand Prix racing to continue our development of racing tyres and then taking the technology to our road tyres.”

13th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Hankook Recalls 3 RA08 Light Truck Tyres

Hankook Tire has is recalling a number of RA08 van tyre sizes in what the company describes as a “precautionary measure.” The sizes affected are: 185/75R16C, 205/75R16C and 215/75R16C produced at the company’s plant in Hungary between April 2008 and June 2009. According to the company, no other tyres produced in Hungary are subject to this action. Tyres supplied as OE to Ford’s Transit are said to similarly un-affected as they are produced at the company’s Deajon plant in South Korea.

Consumers who use the affected tyres are asked to immediately contact their local tyre dealer. Further consumer information will be offered at Hankook Tire Europe’s website (www.hankooktire-eu.com). Alternatively, consumers and the trade are being directed to contact their national representatives.

13th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Calhermit to Promote Consumables at CITExpo

Calhermit Enterprise Co., Ltd. was established in 1983, and will – from booth 5503 at CITExpo promote the tyre-related consumables it supplies in markets such as Taiwan, Europe and America market. It will be exhibiting a range of its products, including tube patches, radial tyre patches, bias-ply tyre patches, retreaded tyre patches, universal insert string, vulcanizing fibre-seal string, tyre shop equipment, tyre repair tools and kit, vulcanizing cement and wheel wrenches.

13th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Mazda Models Get Toyo Tyres as OE

Toyo Tire & Rubber has won OE fitment for its tyres on the new Mazda Axela, which is also known as the Mazda 3 outside of Japan. The Toyo J48 in size 205/55R16 91V and Proxes R32 in size 205/50R17 89W will be placed on the car in Japan and Europe. The North American version will get the all-season Toyo A20 in size P205/55R16 89H and the all-season Toyo A18 in size P205/50R17 88V. (Tire Review/Akron)

10th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Reminds Holidaymakers to Check Their Tyres

Millions of Europeans are hitting the road for their summer holidays, and many will get underway without even undertaking the most cursory checks on the condition or pressure of their vehicle’s tyres. If they understood the drastic effect such negligence could have on their journey, they’d probably take the five minutes or so needed for a tyre check. Bridgestone has released a few statistics that should encourage motorists to do just this.

As part of its Think Before You Drive road safety campaign, conducted jointly with FIA Foundation, Bridgestone has carried out more than 100,000 tyre inspections in Europe since 2005. This programme has identified that 26 per cent of drivers run on under-inflated tyres. Almost all of these motorists are unaware of the adverse consequences this can bring to their safety, to their fuel budget and to the environment.

7th July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors