Queens Tire Dealer

Wheel RepairWhy You Should Choose 106St for Wheel Repair (Part 2)What sets 106St Tire & Wheel apart? Car repair shops offer a number of beneficial services that can enhance the performance of your vehicle and ensure that you have a machine that performs effectively for a long period of time. · Maintenance of the efficiency and performance of the car through regular checkups and up-keeping of the engine and other important parts of the vehicle. · Proper servicing of the engine to maintain a great fuel efficiency of the vehicle. · Diagnosis of the engine and the vehicle to find out the cause of any performance deterioration. · Repair of any damaged parts to restore peak performance of the vehicle. · Enhancing safety standards of the vehicle to ensure least damage to you or the car in case of accidents. There are a large number of other services that are offered by 106St Tire & ... read more

Wheel RepairWhy You Should Choose 106St for Wheel Repair Car repair services are an important aspect for the proper maintenance of your precious vehicle, and must not be taken lightly. After all, you have spent thousands of dollars behind that machine, and if you fail to maintain it properly, you will not be able to use it for long. That's why it's important to ensure proper checkups on a regular basis to maintain the car in proper functioning capability. It is important to avoid car repairs without proper expertise Repairing cars at your own garage may seem very cool, and you've probably seen them do it in Hollywood movies. But what you need to understand is that if you do not have the necessary skills and expertise to deal with car repairs, you may end up making the situation far worse than it already is. Repairing a bent rim or a scratched rim may seem very easy, but in reality, it is far more difficult than it l ... read more

Ouch!!! You hit a curb or one of Queens infamous potholes and blew a tire. You get a new tire and get it balanced but something doesn't feel right...a slight shimmy, a vibration or maybe even a more-pronounced wobble. Sounds like there is a good chance you have a damaged the rim. If you've been pricing wheels recently, you know they can be pricy ranging from between $400 and $1000 for a replacement. Come to 106 St Tire & Wheel as we offer a full range of comprehensive wheel and rim repair services and the good news? Most rims are repairable! Here's what we can do to help you: Re-true a warped, cracked or bent wheel with a specialized straightening machine, bringing it back to balance and trueness again quickly Repair the damage that comes from being scuffed along the curb too many times which is commonly know in NYC as curb rash. A ding along the rim from a hard impact isn't really a problem – you'd be amazed to see what kind of dent and ding damage is actually repairable ... read more

NYC, we got them and we got them bad! Severe road conditions that is. We all know when the National Weather Service says there is a severe weather warning, we need to take precautions. Our blog has pointed out many times during this last year the fact that in the NYC area we always drive under "severe road and traffic conditions" and we have spoken about many factors contributing to dangerous, over used, never maintained roads, traffic, stop and go driving, sudden breaking due to highways seemingly converging traffic and drivers going from doing 55 mph to 10 mph for miles and miles, etc. Nowhere in the USA except other major metropolises like Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, etc, do we find the scope and dimension of what we all know is dangerous roads, extensive drive time and gas consuming, etc which place tremendous burdens on our vehicles and on our nerves. Of course, weather always factors in making severe driving conditions and severe road factors nearly impossible and ... read more

Have you been hitting potholes this winter? If so, read on about wheel alignments: Every new vehicle's wheels are set at very specific angles for proper drivability, stability, and handling before it leaves the factory. The critical alignment angles for the front wheels are toe-in and toe-out. This refers to the direction in which a wheel points (relative to a dead-ahead straight line); caster, which refers to the position of the top of the wheel, and camber, which is the offset of the suspension relative to an imaginary vertical straight line behind the wheel. Many newer vehicles also are designed with adjustable rear suspensions, and a four-wheel alignment ensures that the rear wheels' “thrust angle” is at a proper relationship with the front wheels. Frankly, there are only two major signs that can indicate improper wheel alignment. One is a persistent pull to the right or left, as an improperly-aligned wheel constantly tries to steer the car in a different direction. T ... read more