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COMPUTER’S OWN US:
With On Star, if your car starts running rough, the computer dials On Star and the engineer at the plant may send a temporary fix to solve the problem. You may get a phone call or an email to check the air pressure of your tires, since new cars have a Mandatory Tire Pressure Monitoring Valve stem. You also get notified to get your oil changed.
On Star will also order parts and send them to your dealer. He will make the appointment with your dealer and then calls you and tells you to be at the dealer at whatever time the appointment was made to get the part installed.
Scary, ain’t it?
Added Reference:
Read what Stan Stephenson of Motor Age has to say about Guided Diagnostics (click on Adobe Acrobat PDF article to open and read)
THE HISTORY OF THE TIRE.
It is important to note that this country has no natural resources to build a tire. All must be imported.
I believe Kevlar was used for tires but that is not rubber. During WWII Goodyear built a manufacturing plant in Brazil where there were resources to make tires. Tires were shipped direct to Europe. Hitler was running out of tires.
Think how important tire are to winning a war and for keeping our economy going.
The Tariff idea may well back fire on us.
Excerpt from AboutUs.org
Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber in 1844 that was later used for the first tires.
* Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber in 1844 that was later used for tires.
* In 1888, John Dunlop invented the air-filled or pneumatic tires, however, his were for bicycles.
* In 1895, André Michelin was the first person to use pneumatic tires on an automobile, however, not successfully.
* In 1911, Philip Strauss invented the first successful tire, which was a combination tire and air filled
inner tube. Strauss' company the Hardman Tire & Rubber Company marketed the tires.
* In 1903, P.W. Litchfield of the Goodyear Tire Company patented the first tubeless tire, however, it was never commercially exploited until the 1954 Packard.
* In 1904, mountable rims were introduced that allowed drivers to fix their own flats. In 1908, Frank Seiberling invented grooved tires with improved road traction.
* In 1910, B.F. Goodrich Company invented longer life tires by adding carbon to the rubber.
* Goodrich also invented the first synthetic rubber tires in 1937 made of a patented substance called Chemigum. Pneumatic Tyre (Tire)
John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921) was a Scottish veterinarian and the recognized inventor of the first practical pneumatic or inflatable tyre/tire. His patent was for a bicycle tire, granted in 1888. However,
Robert William Thomson (1822 - 1873) invented the actual first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire. Thomson patented his pneumatic tire in 1845, his invention worked well but was to costly to catch on. Dunlop's tire patented in 1888 did, and so he received the most recognition. William Thomson also patented a fountain pen (1849) and a steam traction engine (1867).