Why are my tires turning brown? Protective ingredients in the rubber can work their way to the surface, leaving a brownish film known as blooming. Road dirt and brake dust can look similar. Blooming i
Tire valve caps have a talent for disappearing. One drops beside the air pump, another vanishes during a tire change, and the next set you find online looks far nicer than the little plastic ones the
A bright red car, a metallic blue car and a taxi painted the color of a highlighter will normally leave the factory with exactly the same footwear. Black tires. The color seems so inevitable
Whitewall tires have become visual shorthand for a particular kind of motoring glamour. Put them on a long Cadillac with chrome bumpers, tailfins and enough hood to host a family picnic, and the pi
A new car is allowed a few small imperfections. The protective plastic may still be clinging to the touchscreen. The tires may feel slightly noisy before they settle in. The cabin may smell like an in
A tire can look almost offensively healthy for its age. The tread grooves are deep. There are no nails in sight. The sidewalls still turn glossy after a wash, and the car has covered so few miles th
Eighteen years of development, three generations of airless tires, and Bridgestone has finally put its AirFree technology into commercial service. The first vehicle to get it? A self-driving shuttle l
Michelin offers an 80,000-mile treadwear warranty on two of its Defender tires, the Defender2 and the Defender T&H MTP. Only applies to replacement tires though, not the ones that came on the car
That whole "wheels vs. doors" thing that blew up online a while back was hilarious. People got weirdly passionate arguing about which one there's more of. It turned into this massive deb
Modern tires feel pretty routine now, but they’ve gone through a long, weird evolution. Back in the 1800s, wheels were literally wood and metal until rubber finally became practical thanks to Ch