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ZF test systems for tires Tire characteristics: From low to high forces Tires and wheels are the most delicate and most severely stressed parts of a vehicle. Great importance is therefore attached to safety and quality here. Only consistent testing guarantees that nothing is left to chance and drivers remain safely in the track. Modern tires must compete in a field of extremes: rolling resistance machines are used in European Good wet grip but creating low rolling resistance reference laboratories and have become well known forces. Perfect handling behavior but they must for its hydrostatic wheel...

Uniformity: From low to high speed Basics: Durability and wear ZF offers for customer laboratories two very precise measuring results. The low speed uniformity Tread wear and endurance testers are basic test struction equipment – fit on ZF test systems. machines: The ZF low speed uniformity and the ZF machine offers more than side wall failure detection machines for tire manufactures. ZF offers those Tires can be mounted easily and the machines offer high speed uniformity machine. The HSU types and uniformity test with or without rim. The inno- machines for sizes of modern passenger car tires...

Quality control: For the tire production process Even more: From tire to vehicle ZF has invented a unique machine to measure uni- designed and built for high performance tires pro- With ZF test equipment almost all characteristic val- wide range of advantages with its high dynamic roll- formity: The ZF LUB combines the measuring of duction lines to analyze also dynamic uniformity ues of tires can be measured and evaluated. er and axle test systems. Such systems are used for uniformity and dynamic unbalancing in one behavior as a quality feature. Especially passenger car designers are interested...