{"id":13187,"date":"2012-09-03T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/tire-facts-and-tire-safety-tips\/"},"modified":"2013-06-07T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T20:50:11","slug":"tire-facts-and-tire-safety-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/tire-facts-and-tire-safety-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Tire Facts and Tire Safety Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Cooper Tires<\/a> for SocialSpark<\/a>. All opinions are 100% mine.<\/p>\n

Before we get to the “Tire Facts and Safety Tips” Infographic below as you’ll note above, this post is sponsored by Cooper Tire<\/a>.\u00a0 A couple months ago, I ventured out of doors to the Cooper Tires #RideNDrive event in San Antonio, Texas to extensively test out some Cooper Tires and compare them to equivalent (in terms of target utility and price range) BFGoodrich tires. Specifically, they let me race around Mustang GTs and Corvettes on their 1,000 acre vehicle test center, racing the cars on wet and dry tracks at purposefully extreme speeds in order to put the tires through their paces (ultra high performance, all-season Zeon RS3-A and the ultra high performance, summer RS3-S). They also let me test out some tires on Chevy Tahoe SUVs on the wet track and on Jeeps in a variety of extreme off-road conditions.\u00a0 In both cases, the vehicles were equipped with the\u00a0Cooper Tire Discoverer<\/a> A\/T3 all terrain \/ all-season tires, which incidentally was recently rated by Consumer Reports as the \u201cnumber one ranked all-terrain SUV and pickup tire\u201d.<\/p>\n

Both the BFGoodrich tires and the Cooper Tires performed amazingly well.\u00a0 What was surprising, to me at least, was how much better the Cooper Tires performed over the BFGoodrich tires; I had assumed the difference would only be slight given they’re both high end tires from name brands.\u00a0 Specifically, on the wet tracks with the Mustangs, Corvettes, and Chevy Tahoes, the BFGoodrich tires really struggled to grip around corners at relatively high speeds, particularly in the Chevy Tahoes which almost felt like driving on ice at times, even though it was just wet pavement. This was particularly troublesome when it came to trying to turn and the front wheels choosing instead just to slip out.\u00a0 Both the Cooper Zeon’s and Discoverers didn’t have nearly as much of a problem with this as the BFGoodriches and even when they did slip out (at higher speeds), recovering was much quicker and easier.<\/p>\n

So needless to say at the end of the event, I was extremely impressed with the Zeon RS3-A, RS3-S, and the Discoverer A\/T3 Cooper Tires and was only left wishing they’d sent me a set of the\u00a0Cooper Tire Zeon<\/a> RS3-A’s for my car. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

If you’d like to read a more comprehensive review (with pictures) of the\u00a0RS3-A, RS3-S, and A\/T3 Cooper Tires and the #RideNDrive event itself, check out my post here<\/a>. You can also follow Cooper Tires on Twitter here.<\/a><\/p>\n

And now, without further ado, here is the Tire Facts and Tire Safety Tips Infographic:<\/p>\n

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