How Tires are made

Apr 06, 2020 1 Replies

This new video shows the many steps in making a car tire from scratch: o CAR TYRES | How It's Made (December 27, 2019), by Discovery UK

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The rubber sheets are shown being made here:

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The polyester sheets are shown here:

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The cotton threads are shown here:

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The steel cables to make the bead are shown here:

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The skeleton bead hoops & inner tube & corded ply are assembled here:

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That completes the inner part, or skeleton, of the tire:

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Separately, strips of rubber embedded with steel cord on a drum:

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Rubber ply strips are added to those first layers of rubber:

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The tread rubber is applied to the strips of rubber made above:

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Then the separate skeleton & tread sections are assembled into one:

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The result is a "green tire", uncured and without a tread pattern:

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Now it's molded, baked, and shaped into a vulcanized branded tire:

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The tire is tested for uniformity (red & yellow dots are placed):

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Here is a relatively recent Michelin Shill from October 2019: o HOW A MICHELIN MOTORSPORT TYRE IS MADE. Inside the factory.

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It has a good narrated sequence of the steps needed to make the tires.



This animated video is from the US Tire Manufacturers Association: o How Tires Are Made, by the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association

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It's more flow-chart'ish diagramatically sequenced.



This is a Continental Tires video on how they make tires: o How Tyres are Made, by Continental Tyres TV

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An older, less detailed video is this from Michelin Tires: o How it's made: Michelin Tires, my Malik H, October 31, 2016

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Although it's more marketing and a bit less how tires are made; but they go into testing of the tires in more detail than do the others.
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Here's another (even older) Michelin video on how tires are made: o Michelin's Video on How Tires Are Made, March 7, 2011, by crashforensics

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Any other good videos on how automotive tires are made?


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