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Tips Before You Take Your Car Driving Test

Tips Before You Take Your Car Driving Test

Tyre Dealers warn of unsafe CAR TYRES, saying hard up drivers are risking lives

Tyre Dealers warn of unsafe CAR TYRES, saying hard up drivers are risking lives

CAR SERVICE and REPAIRS

Car service and repairs are becoming more important for your car

It is very important for your car to serviced and repaired in the correct place, namely garages and Auto-centres. It is little known that the lack of a service can effect your fuel consumption rate and you may take into consideration visiting a preferred garage to have your car serviced or visiting a well known name that you can trust such as your nearest Unipart Car Care Centre (UCCC).
With more new or used cars flooding the market each year, countless auto repair garages are well prepared to meet the need of clients cars. When it comes to finding a good garage in the Halifax area of West Yorkshire, you can look no further than Pellon Auto-centre, itself a UCCC.

Pellon are one of the best of auto assistance centres equipped to give purchasers a different a higher standard services to their cars.

Many different makes of cars are serviced together with the most popular smaller cars, such as Corsas, Fiestas,Minis,Micra’s, C2s and also top marques such as Mercedes Benz, Lexus, BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, Volvo along with Land Rover. These are some of the models that are serviced in our garage unit. The services encompassed in our top end auto repair includes; MOT testing, servicing, MOT repairs,Tyres, batteries and other additionally maintenance. What's more in our centre you will have a top computer technician for your car needs such as engine management and setting diagnostic lights such as ABS and Airbag lights.

When you are evaluating a good garage, experience is very important for your individual assurance. The moment motorists are selecting services, they need to have confidence in the work that the centre is carrying out and the pricing structure, as everything has to be a correct value. Our hourly rate is much lower than say a main dealer and our quality is not that much different, in fact I am sure that our customer care is as good if not better than most main dealer garages.

All our staff are long term employees and they all become familiar with the customers names and needs to their cars, giving first class service to boot.
PellonAuto-centre provides our customers with much expertise for the car servicing and repairs to their vehicles. Both annual as well as monthly services are available for customers to take advantage of.

Pellon also offer a choice of 6 courtesy cars for the customers to use whilst their cars are been repaired. These cars carry no charges, the only thing they insist on is that you bring along your driving licence, this is for the insurance company. We also use Unipart genuine parts when your car is in for a car service or repairs, this ensures top quality and guaranteed parts are used, these parts are guaranteed any where in the mainland UK against faults, so if you breakdown your Unipart dealer will instruct to your nearest Unipart centre and your car will be repaired under warranty.(providing the part is faulty). Whether it is a BMW, Mercedes, Benz your cars problems are usually solved.

Car service and repairs are priced up before the work commences

Through skilled mechanics, we resolve to offer our past and present customers the best quality. We always give our customers a full and proper quote before we commence with any work . This gives the customer complete control of their purse string ,if they can not afford the work then we do not do it, simple as that.

pellontyres: GOODYEAR TYRES in the nineties part 2

pellontyres: GOODYEAR TYRES in the nineties part 2: Goodyear tyres in stores wars ? Goodyear s chairman Mr Gaults decided that they would sell Goodyear tyres in the Sears tyre stores. Thi...

GOODYEAR TYRES in the nineties part 2

Goodyear tyres in stores wars ?

Goodyear s chairman Mr Gaults decided that they would sell Goodyear tyres in the Sears tyre stores. This was fine until the following year he began to sell the Goodyear product through Wall Mart and a chain of tyre stores known as Discount tyre chain. This move angered other Goodyear tyre dealers and were seen these large chains cutting the price of the Goodyear products.

Here in the UK Goodyear owned Kelly Springfield tyres and a lesser known Lee tyres. I was a Kelly dealer in Yorkshire and became very successful, until Goodyear decided that we should be selling Goodyear and not Kelly messing everything up, until we changed brands to Pirelli tyres.

Back to Goodyear ,who in the early nineties began to make good profits again. Goodyear began to expand abroad and had merges with other tyre companies in India (Ceat tyres) and China (Gold Lion tyre). In 1996 Goodyear tyres made a successful take over bid for Debica tyres in Poland, mainly because of the lower pay structure of the Polish workers, thus making bigger profits.

The tyre giants then decided that they would expand to South Africa buying out a company called “Anglovaal Industries” its self a maker of tyres. Goodyear then entered into a manufacturing agreement with Sumitomo tyres in Japan, making tyres for each other in Asia and North America.

They did not finish there they signed an agreement with the “Sava tyre group” of Slovenia, giving Goodyear tyres a controlling share of 60%.Goodyear were also buying up tyre retailing groups and here in the UK they formed a company called “Tyreservices Ltd” formed out of buying out smaller retailers. In America they bought out retail companies Penske Auto Centres and Montgomery-Ward,both combined forming well over a thousand outlets, a massive step forward.

Goodyear tyres bring out a new “Runflat tyre” called the EMT

This new tyre enabled a car with a puncture to be driven up to 200 miles at 50 mph which would eliminate the need for a spare wheel. The tyre was not very popular because or its high price tag.

And was later scrapped. This is now ironic because we now use many runflat tyres on the modern type cars, including Goodyear runflats, although these are now going out of favour due to the uncomfortable hard ride for the drivers, due to the extra strength side walls required to run the tyres without air.

RADIAL TYRES In America were not an instant hit ?

Goodyear were anti radial tyres

Ford motor company had radically changed the way that cars were to run on radial tyres. Starting off in the late sixties by putting radial tyres on their new Lincoln models had set the tone for the future of radial tyres in the American auto industry. By 1973 General motors had started to follow Ford by introducing radial tyres with improved car suspension onto some of their new models. The GM cars had about 11% of their cars fitted with radial tyres, and by now 26% of ford cars were fitted with original equipment radial tyres mainly from Michelin tyres.

By the mid seventies this figure had risen to 90% a by now most cars were equipped with new radial tyres. Not all the tyre companies were still convinced with the radial tyre, the most prominent was the Goodyear tyre and rubber company. Goodyear were reluctant to change all their factories and tooling equipment to enable them to produce the radial tyres that were now becoming very popular. This was going to cost Goodyear tyres millions of dollars and they were reluctant to change strategy. Indeed in 1967 launched a new tyre product to the World called the Polysteel bias belted tyre. I remember these tyres being introduced here in the UK, when I worked for Briggs tyres here in the UK. It was at a time when all the leading tyre makers were trying out new products and this new tyre from Goodyear was no exception.

Goodyear s main problem with the radial tyres , is that they lasted too long and would have meant a reduction in tyre sales. The new polysteel tyre was made with polyester cords and fibreglass belting instead of steel, as in Michelin tyres. Goodyear promoted this new tyre very strongly and many of the American car makers started to introduce this new tyre to their models, indeed by 1970 ,85% of American cars were made using bias belted tyres in place of radial tyres. I remember the special Goodyear promotions here in the UK, but the bottom line is that the new tyre did not take off here in the UK, and as far as I remember did not compliment the suspension of the European produced cars. It was a different situation in America with General motors buying a staggering 30 million tyres a year, meaning that for the time being bias belted tyres were back with a bang.

The Americans could not make radial tyres ?

The bottom line is that the American tyre companies could not make radial tyres, especially steel belted radial tyres. They did not have the technical knowledge and the early attempts to make steel belted radials was abysmal.

michelin racing tyres

michelin wet weather racing tyres

Michelin tyres were not prepared to share their superior knowledge about the way that steel belting was produced and how the steel was processed to stop the steel from rusting when penetrated by a puncture and eventually rusting the whole steel belt until the total tyre broke down causing a blow-out. Both Goodyear and Firestone tyre companies came a cropper trying to make steel belted radial tyres but this is for another blog.