Tyre Master
Phone:+64 7578 8805
Tyres Brands: Cooper Tires, GT Radial, Nexxen, Continental, Falken, Federal
Address: 1235 Cameron Road, Gate Pa, Tauranga
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday: 07:30 – 16:30, Saturday: 8:00-16:00, Sunday: 10:00-16:00
About Tyre Master
35 years, still local, still independent!
Welcome to Tyre Master, the Bay Of Plenty’s largest and longest established independent tyre company. For more than 30 years Tyre Master has been looking after the tyre needs of people in Tauranga and the surrounding areas. From humble beginnings in Harrington Street back in 1984, Tyre Master now consists of 4 branches spread through the Tauranga / Mount Maunganui area. That’s 4 stores stocking a carefully selected range of tyre brands to best suit the needs of you, the local tyre buying public.
Our Tyre Master branch in Tauranga is open 7 days.
Tauranga is a coastal metropolitan city in the Bay of Plenty region and the fifth most populous city of New Zealand, with an urban population of 135,000 (June 2019).[1] It was settled by Māori late in the 13th century, by Europeans in the early 19th century, and was constituted as a city in 1963.[4]
The city lies in the north-western corner of the Bay of Plenty, on the south-eastern edge of Tauranga Harbour. The city extends over an area of 168 square kilometres (65 sq mi), and encompasses the communities of Bethlehem, on the south-western outskirts of the city; Greerton, on the southern outskirts of the city; Matua, west of the central city overlooking Tauranga Harbour; Maungatapu; Mount Maunganui, located north of the central city across the harbour facing the Bay of Plenty; Otūmoetai; Papamoa, Tauranga’s largest suburb, located on the Bay of Plenty; Tauranga City; Tauranga South; and Welcome Bay.
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Continental Tyres History
What we now know as Continental tires began with a company called Continental-Caoutchouc und Gutta-Percha-Compagnie that was created in 1871 in Hannover, Germany. Like other manufacturers, they began dedicating their activity to the production of rubber products, mainly rubber for bicycles and cars, but also footwear, waterproof fabrics and even balls.
However, the brand’s engineers were somewhat visionary and, above all, quite reluctant to stagnate. Thanks to their desire to grow and their capacity for innovation, as well as the incipient changes in the automotive industry, in 1904 they presented their first car tire with a tread and, years later, the first removable rim.
This is the starting point for the modern technologies that the Continental group would include throughout the 20th century: synthetic rubber and rubber reinforcement are some of the advances in durability that the brand has achieved.
Thanks to these advances, the company expands throughout Europe and begins to export its products. In the 1950s, for example, its tires were already mounted on the legendary Volkswagen Beetle. Then they devise the winter modality and those that do not have an inner tube. In the 1960s, the chain production of tires with a radial structure began.
In 1979 the company acquired the Uniroyal Inc. brand in Europe an American firm that is now the second Continental brand, then with the Austrian Semperit and later with General Tire. Already in the 90s, he managed to create the largest company in Malaysia, he bought part of ITT Industries dedicated to the production of brakes and bodywork and in 2001 he acquired the majority of Temic shares to achieve better results in terms of stability controls.
It is in 2004 when it manages to become part of the largest consortium of rubber companies: Phoenix AG. In addition, it does not stop investing in security and electronic systems to strengthen its position and move up the ranking.
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