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Firestone FS400 Front Axle Truck Tire with All-Season Operation
Firestone FS400 is an all-season radial tire designed for long-haul trucks. It is intended for mounting on a front axle of your vehicle and suits inter-city as well as international cargo trafficking. The tire delivers excellent traction on both wet and dry asphalted highways while being extra durable and damage-resistant.
The tire is made from high-quality rubber that can manage long hauls well. It endures heat buildup well and excellently resists damage like chipping, cracking and tearing.
The tire’s peculiar tread picture is equipped with stone ejectors in a central tread area, which guards the tire against stone penetration inside it, which prolongs its life span as well as opens the way to several retreading operations when the tire is considerably worn. Retreadability is ensured by a durable casing as well and means that you get the same quality tire for less money, which not only saves your expenses but also helps protect the environment as less raw material is needed to make a new product.
The groove shape as well as their arrangement enhances even wear to increase the tire’s mileage.
Firestone FS400 benefits from the company’s Sound Barrier technology that reduces noise the tire generates on the road to make your rides quieter and more comfortable.
Bridgestone Company Launches Firestone FS507 PLUS Tire
Firestone FS507 PLUS is premium-class truck tire for a steering axle of your vehicle. The tire complies with numerous CARB (California Air Resource Bureau) requirements and was given a SmartWay certificate for its high-quality performance.
Bert Jones, BCS marketing manager, maintains that car parks can reduce their expenses by equipping their vehicles with the new tire. Maximum fuel efficiency can be achieved by mounting the FS507 PLUS on a steering, the F695 PLUS tire on a leading axle and the Fire stone FT455 PLUS on a trailer.
Firestone FS507 PLUS succeeds the company’s FS507 and features high-tech tread design and innovative rubber compound for sidewalls. The latter allows reducing rolling resistance, which in turn lowers fuel consumption of a truck the tire is used with.
The upper tread is durable and resists untimely wear well, which provides for a long life span while the inner tread protects the casing and opens the way to numerous retreading operations. There’re also guarding ribs on shoulders that prevents from uneven tread wear. The sipes all over the tread surface in their turn feature numerous biting edges to ensure firm grip on slippery surfaces.
Firestone FS507 PLUS comes with a deep tread and a durable casing construction including four steel belts and an all-steel layer. The tire is available in a low-profile five-rib variant and in a four-rib one. Both models feature G and H load ratings.
New Firestone Tires for Passenger Cars
Bridgestone Company has added new tires to its Firestone tire line-up. New precision tire are designed to match medium-class passenger tires as well as sport utility vehicles and jeeps. New tires belong to Firehawk, Destination and Precision families and include Touring and Sport models.
Like the company’s FR tires the new Presicion Touring tire features a wide contact patch, silica-based rubber compound and wide circumferential grooves, which ensures excellent tread wear resistance, reliable handling and minimal hydroplaning.
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The tire comes in 20 sizes to fit various rim diameters ranging from 15 to 17 inches. It suits such popular car models as Chevy Malibu, Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Kia Sedona.
The Precision Sport is a high-performance tire with a long mileage. It is available in 17 sizes with H speed rating and can be used with such cars as Nissan Altima, Ford Focus and Mazda 3.
The Wide Oval Indy 500 tire joins the Firehawk line-up. It comes with W speed rating and is supposed to be the flagman tire among the company’s high-performance models. It sells in 40 sizes with rims diameters measuring from 15 to 20 inches. The tire is remarkable by its superb handling on both dry and wet surfaces and can excellently match the needs of the owner of such vehicles as Ford Mustang, Pontiac G8 and Honda Civic Si.
The new tire for the Destination line-up is called the Destination ST, an all-season tire for sport utility vehicles and powerful crossovers. It is available with H, V and W speed ratings to match Jeep Liberty, Chevrolet Silverado and Mazda CX-7 vehicles and so on.
Firestone Firehawk TZ 100 Summer Tire
Firestone Firehawk TZ 100 is a summer touring tire for passenger cars. It belongs to the company’s new generation line up and was launched to celebrate the hundred’s anniversary of the Firestone brand. The tire sells with an affordable pricing.
The tire offers excellent handling and quality wet traction without compromising on traction in the dry. Its major peculiarity is its oval sidewall design, which enhances ride smoothness and hence provides for a high level of driver and passenger comfort.
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Firestone used its UNI-T technology for this tire to achieve the best performance possible. The technology is comprised of several independent technologies each of which is responsible for a different aspect of the tire’s performance.
For instance, the C.T.D.M (Comprehensive Tire Design Method) technology means the use of computer modeling techniques to determine tread pattern, to shape the casing and to select materials for the future tire so that everything should be balanced.
The tire’s roundness is ensures by the O-Bead technology that provides for a perfect fit between the tire bead and the wheel rim to reduce sound vibrations and thus to make the tire’s work less noisy.
The TZ100 tire is made from a strong and resilient L.L. Carbon rubber compound, which is also resistant to minor mechanical damage like chips and cuts. The tire inner construction is durable as well and includes seamless cap layers for safe driving even at high speeds.