It’s from vital importance to have new tires on your car when you are driving it but also you should have the idea how tires are made and know when the time for a change comes.

As you’ve heard by now or you know that from personal experience the tires are important for the braking trajectory of your vehicle. Also they are important from your vehicle’s handling and steering. Summing all this up and explain with one sentence would be like this: Don’t drive if your tires are bald and metal band are started to appear, it’s just foolish.

Now, let’s return to our main topic, how tires are made. Early in the 20^th century the air inflated rubber tires were invented. After that the driving comfort and the handling was drastically improved comparing to the old wooden or metal tires. Can you just imagine now driving on that kind of tires today? It would painful and slow.

At the beginning they were kind of bald but the addition of threads improved their traction. But they never stopped evolving through the last century. Today’s tires are made from 10 to 12 components including natural rubber, synthetic rubber, carbon for pigment and other chemicals. All these components are mixed in giant blenders under heat in huge pressure until the final product is made, a gummy rubber dough. Each tire layer is made on nearly the same way until the same final product is reached, only the mixture is different and varies from the ingredients included.

In order to get the full picture how tires are made we suggest to watch the video where the whole tire productions process is explained from beginning till end. The process is not just molding the rubber into mold, it’s way more complicated and each part of the process has its own benefits on the final product, a ready to use tire.

Enjoy the video.