The body is made up of several layers of different fabrics coated with Rubber called plies. Rubber coated cord, called body plies, make up the cord body. The cord body provides tyre strength and transmits cornering forces from the tread to the wheel. Belt plies are two or more strong layers of cord under the tread area. The cap ply also found in some tires is similar to belt edge strips only full width instead of just on the belt edges.