Tubeless Tires Or Chamber Wheels - Which is Better?

When replacing stingrays, any car enthusiast faces the problem of choice - to put roofing felts tubeless tires, toli to assemble wheels with cameras. Seeking help and advice from friends and comrades car owners, as a rule, does not give a definite answer, and even real professionals can not agree unambiguously in their opinions.

So you have to choose the type of wheel assembly at random for the driver. And to make it easier to make a choice, it is worth considering the positive and negative sides of tubeless and chamber wheel assemblies.

Tubeless Tires

In essence, tubeless and chamber tires today are no different, more precisely, all tires are produced from the calculation of a tubeless installation. And the very concept of a tubeless wheel means there is no inside the camera, the air is kept in the wheel only due to the tight fit of the tire on the rim and a special teat with a spool (air valve) installed in the rim.

What are the advantages of tubeless tires that they are so much praised:

• The absence of a camera facilitates the wheel, which positively affects its balancing and reduces the load on the suspension during high-speed driving.
• A tire without a camera can withstand less load, which means it behaves softer on uneven sections of the road, i.e. vibration and noise are reduced.
• Tubeless tires are easier to cool, which does not lead to overheating at high speeds during a long trip.
• The tire is capable of holding working pressure with several nails or self-tapping screws, provided that they are firmly fixed in the tread. And such punctures can be sealed on the way without even having to remove the wheels.

At first glance, the positive features of tubeless tires are enough to “fall in love” with them. But it is worth considering the negative side, which adds a large "fly in the ointment".

• A tubeless tire successfully holds air only if it is hermetically connected to the disk, so even with the slightest depressurization, you will have to send the wheel to the service station. A violation of the fit of the tire on the disk can be caused by a trivial blow when it enters a pit or when crossing difficult areas: dirt, sand, snow.
• Lateral cuts or breakdowns in large quantities (from 5 pieces) are not allowed, because do not give the opportunity to reliably seal the tire. In this case, only new slopes with a high tread are really hermetically glued.
• The depressurization of a tubeless wheel in most cases occurs with a sharp loss of pressure in the form of cotton, which leads to a quick descent of the wheel and the problem of keeping the car on the road (you can not cope with the control) especially at high speeds.
• Self-rebuilding of a tubeless wheel is practically impossible due to the use of specialized materials and equipment. In addition, the quality of the disk seat must meet the requirements, which means that not every disk can be mounted on a tubeless wheel.

Chamber wheels

If tubeless tires are so good, then why are chamber wheels still used so often. The best aspects of chamber assembly:

• Assembling the wheels on the cameras allows you to slightly unload the tire from the forces, which means that the wheel is not produced so intensively and is able to withstand a large load.
• The tightness of the connection of the tire with the disk does not matter, therefore, even slight movement of the tire relative to the disk is allowed. At the same time, the number of previous punctures does not matter at all, and small side cuts are quite repairable.
• A chamber tire can withstand large radial loads and is able to work in any difficult terrain, and the storage of such flat tires is not so critical than for tubeless.
• Repair of chamber ramps on the road - it's quite an acceptable thing, you can either seal the camera, or simply replace it. And during a puncture, a sharp pressure drop is a rarity, basically the pressure loss in the wheel occurs more smoothly, which makes it possible to notice a breakdown and stop in time.

Why camera tires do not like admirers of tubeless wheels:

• When the wheel is broken, it is necessary to flange it, which is burdensome, not so fast and requires special skills and tools.
• The camera adds weight to the wheel, which is more problematic when balancing it, and additional loads on the suspension appear at a speed of more than 140 km / h.
• The chamber wheel is more rigid in operation, which with its low load or high air pressure leads to the appearance of excess vibration.

So the car owner has to choose between soft bezkamerki sharply descending, and hard cameras, easily repaired. As a result, it turns out that tubeless tires are very practical, but they can’t withstand big "tortures", and it’s not without reason that professional truck drivers mount wheels on cameras.