Tyre products for sale online in Zambia

All parts on your motor vehicle or bike are very important but tyres are the only point of contact with the road. Without them, you will not be able to move and reach your destination.

Find here Zambian suppliers of an extensive range of tyres as well as tubes for your car, truck, bus, tractor or motorcycle. They come in different sizes, dimensions and patterns to suit every need. Brands available include but are not limited to Pirelli, Dunlop, Goodyear, Continental, Michelin, Bridgestone, Firestone, Hankook and Yokohama.

More about tyres

A tyre is a circular and part of a vehicle/bike that comes in contact with the ground. They are fitted on rims and filled with compressed air. Since their invention, natural rubber has been the most widely used material in the manufacturing of tyres. However, modern tyres also employ materials like synthetic rubber, fabric, steel wires, carbon black, and some more compounds.

There are two major classes of tyres, according to the presence or absence of tubes in them. Thus, they are called ‘tubed tyres’ and ‘tubeless tyres,’ respectively. Furthermore, based on the construction or skeleton of tyres known as carcass, tyres are classified into the following main types:

• Cross-ply or bias-ply - In these tyres, ply cords are at an angle of 30°-40° to the tire axis.
• Radial ply - Ply cords run in the radial direction in these tires.
• Belted-bias ply - This is a combination of the aforementioned types.

There is no difference between 'tyres' and 'tires'. Tires is the standard American English spelling, whereas Tyres is the British English spelling.

The terms "tires" and "wheels" may be used interchangeably at times, but they are not the same thing. Wheels are the rims on which tires are affixed. Tires are rubber ovals that are installed on the wheels.

The spelling tyre is used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and most current and former Commonwealth nations after being revived in the 19th century. Both tyre and tire were used in the 15th and 16th centuries. The United States did not adopt the revival of tyre, and tire is the only spelling currently used there.

For British motorists, the rubber wheel-covering is called a tyre – for the Americans it's a tire.

A tire or tyre is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide traction on the surface over which the wheel

It functions to provide traction for acceleration and braking and limits the transmission of road vibrations to the automobile body. Inner tubes within tires were standard until the 1950s, when seals between the tire and the wheel were developed, leading to tubeless tires, now used almost universally.