Understanding Tire Lifespan: It's More Than Just Mileage

The same tires, some people can run for five or six years or seventy to eighty thousand kilometers and still have tread, while others can wear out in just two or three years.

Why is there such a huge difference in the lifespan of the same type of tire?

How long can a tire be used if it is used less?

Then what exactly affects the service life of the tire?

Even if the new tire is not used, the maximum storage time is 7 years before it is scrapped. Some car owners rarely drive, so a few years later, the tire pattern still looks very deep, so does this kind of tire need to be replaced? At this time, the "service life" of the tire should be discussed.

To understand the lifespan of a tire, first, you need to understand how tires age! As we all know, tires are rubber products, rubber is organic, and organic matter will age and decompose, and the culprit that accelerates aging is the sun! Under ultraviolet light, rubber gradually loses its elasticity and toughness, slowly becomes fragile, and eventually ages and cracks.

Therefore, tire manufacturers' warehouses are all designed according to the requirements of light avoidance, drying, and ventilation. Therefore, the "service life" of the tire is generally calculated from "after the tire is installed on the vehicle".

For vehicles that are parked underground for a long time, the "health status" of the tires is much better than that of vehicles parked in the open air. Many cars that have been parked in the underground garage for a long time often have good rubber elasticity and no web-like cracks after 7 or 8 years, this is the reason.

No one can avoid a fact: rubber is afraid of ultraviolet light. Of course, not only rubber, if the car is kept away from direct sunlight, high temperature, various bird droppings, and tree resins, even the car paint will be much healthier, but anyway, the industry generally advises car owners that the tire starts to count after being installed on the vehicle. After 5 years, please ask a professional to check the status of the rubber. If aging is found to be obvious, it should be replaced in time. If the status is good, it should be checked once a year to ensure safety.

Car owners who have bought tires know that normal priced tires are generally good online, with both control and wear resistance, and can also meet the requirements for quietness. It seems that only the price is different. But in fact, there is a devil's triangle law for tires!

The "seesaw law" for the three performances of wear resistance/rolling resistance (the lower the resistance, the more fuel-efficient the vehicle)/wet grip (not slipping in rainy days). -The relationship between these three performances is a "zero-sum game". And the appearance of Sailun Eco Point³ (Liquid Gold Tire) has completely provided an answer to this problem.

Sailun "Liquid Gold" tire uses inorganic "non-fossil" material silica/quartz sand prepared by the world's original carbonation method of the National Rubber Center to replace carbon black prepared with fossil fuels as rubber fillers. The average CO? emission of a car tire can be reduced by about 8 kg. At the same time, EVEC prepared by "Green Integration" technology compared to synthetic rubber prepared by traditional technology, due to the simplification of post-treatment processes such as drying, molding, and packaging, while improving wear resistance, energy consumption is also significantly reduced.

Zhang Yunxiu, the director of Sailun Group's Technology Research and Development Center TB Research Laboratory, said that the superior wear resistance of Liquid Gold tires is actually due to the high performance of Liquid Gold materials. As mentioned before, the world's first chemical rubber mixing method, the weak interaction between fillers, excellent filler dispersion, and the enhanced interaction between fillers and polymers naturally significantly improve the wear performance.

One of the factors that affect the life of a tire is temperature. Based on the advantages of liquid gold tire materials, it can reduce the dynamic fatigue heat generation of materials and thus reduce the heat generation of the tire during driving. Under the same driving conditions, the working temperature of the tire is lower, so naturally, the service life of the tire is relatively longer.

Therefore, if you want the tire not to age, it is very simple: under the conditions of light avoidance, drying, and ventilation, the aging speed of rubber is very slow, even to a negligible degree. The good rubber formula combined with professional light storage, is still almost the same as new after 3 years, which makes sense, so for car owners with a long annual mileage, choose the Liquid Gold series products and try to park the car in the garage as much as possible. The entire tire use cycle can really exceed your expectations.