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Tyres rank at the top of your regular expenses and indeed one of the factors that affect your profit margins as a mobility entrepreneur. Tyres can also impact significantly on your riders' ratings, your trip safety and ride comfort.
Signing up a car for e-hailing busines will automatically expose all its parts to extreme wear and tear because of long daily mileages it has to cover. Your tyres are the only part of the vehicle that come in contact with the road and also support the weight of the vehicle and all the passengers.
You just have to get the tyre maintenance (among others) right if you must have something left for yourself and family at the end of every week of back to back trips.
The issues with your tyres and their maintenances must be put in the right perspectives. Our discussions around tyre maintenance with e-hailing drivers at SWINGSTAGE LIMITED are always begin with dealing with the reality of the business.
Below are tips you need to know about tyres installed on a vehicle being used for e-hailing busines:
1. GET YOUR EXPECTATIONS RIGHT ABOUT TYRES.
What's your expectations when you get a new replacements for your tyres? You see, this is where stress sets in for many drivers.
Do you rate your tyres by how many years they last or how many kilometres/miles you are able to cover with them? The truth is every tyre is designed to last for a certain thousands of miles/kilometres according to their qualites.
Meaning, if your tyre is designed to last for 40,000 kilometres and you cover 5,000 kilometres in about a month, within a year your brand new tyres may be begging for replacements. While someone who covers about 12,000 kilometres with the same tyre in a year will not think about changing tyres in three years.
The rate of usage determines how long your tyre lasts. Putting your tyre regular demands in right perspectives will help you in putting plans in place that will help your e-hailing busines to run smoothly. Tyre is a major need that could ground your activities.
The more trips you take, the less treads you have left on your tyres. The more closer you are to needing new tyres.
2. INVEST IN QUALITY TYRES AT ONCE
Buying quality and installing 4 tyres at the same time make tyre management easy because all the tyres are installed with same tread depth at the same time. You can easily trace when a tyre or two tyres on same axle are wearing faster than the others and rotate them.
Tyre rotation is a process of changing positions of tyres to ensure even wearings and make them last longer.
Buying your 4 tyres at once also helps you to assess and monitor your spending on tyres.
Don't forget you are in a business.
Installing complete set of tyres at once makes spending traceable. It also helps you to know how long your tyres last and have plan in place for their replacement.
You save money when you buy complete set at once because some tyre stores usually offer discounts when you bought such volume.
You can also take advantage of our easy payment plans. The plan helps you buy 4 brand new tyres and make payments every week in 10 installments.
Apply HERE.
You can also buy your battery and lubricants on installments from us, if you meet the terms and conditions.
3. HAVE BASIC KNOWLEDGE ABOUT TYRES.
Lots of damages are done to tyres most times at the point of installations. Basic knowledge about tyres can save you unnecessary expenses even safe your life and your riders.
Knowing the type of tyre you are installing, recommended inflation pressure for your car and the maximum PSi of the tyre to be installed, when to gauge your tyres to get accurate readings, how the gauge device works etc. are important especially if you fix and install your tyres by roadside technicians.
Simple questions to test your tyre education: Do you know your recommended car tyre sizes? Do you know where the manufacturing date of a tyre is found? Can you identify the type of tyres by tread pattern? Wheel balancing and alignment are done at about how many kilometres/miles?
On the scale of 1 to 10 what do you get?
If you get below 8 then you need to improve on your tyre education. There are articles on our blog to help you on that:
4. DON'T CHANGE TO BIGGER TYRES.
Bad road infrastructures are one of the major reasons responsible for frequent breakdown of vehicle in Lagos and Nigeria at large. Potholes and abandoned road projects are the realities vehicle owners contend with daily.
Many of the cars used for e-hailing busines are in subcompact, compact and midsize categories. These cars suffer lots of damages because of their relatively low ground clearance compare to their SUV counterparts.
Many drivers consider installing bigger tyres to gain reasonable ground clearance to escape damages to their cars while driving on roads with irregularities.
But getting a bigger tyres for your car also has a negative side to it. Modern car parts don't function independently. Tyres are connected to major parts of every car. That's why you must be very careful with what you do with the original and standard equipments that come with your car.
Getting bigger tyres to raise your car will alter the performance of your car, give inaccurate speedometer readings, dull the effectiveness of your brake hardware, affect the gear ratios, increase your fuel consumption,etc. Why? .... because the overall diameter of the tyres, the recommended tyre weight and rim, section width are all functioning with components like the gear, speedometer, ABS, break system, etc.
For example, most cars on e-hailing apps are Toyota Corolla (9th Gen. E130) which uses 195/65R15. Upsizing the tyre to, let's say, 215/65R16 will change the functionality of some equipment in the car except you recalibrate them.
It also has economic implications. The price difference between the recommended tyre for your car and the size that could give your car the level of height it needs to escape road irregularities might be between #5,000 to #7,000 even more in some cases. Which means extra #20,000 or more when you need to replace your four tyres.
Availablity of that particular size is also important. Another challenge you might face is getting the bigger tyre when you need it in the market. Some tyres sizes are easier to get than others.
Final thoughts, there are ways to handle this. Some premium cars come with different tyre sizes that could be installed on them. In this case, the manufacturers have configured the suspensions to accommodate those tyre sizes. Don't forget different tyre sizes affect the performance of your car differently. You might need to get a professional help for more advice.
For quality tyres call us at SWINGSTAGE LIMITED
08027623148
tyres@swingstagetyre.com
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