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Taking Care Of Your Tires

What Size is Right For Your Vehicle

Vehicle Placard Tire Size & Pressure

Manufactures Recommend Tire Size and Pressure

Learn how to read your tire sidewall

Reading Your Vehicles Tire Placard For Information

 

Chances are your vehicle has your recommended tire size and recommended tire pressure on a placard in the drivers side doorjab. Earlier placards can typically be found on: Rear passenger doorjamb of Ford sedans, Fuel filler door, Glove box or center console door, or The engine compartment.

 

Can't find your placard, then check your owners manual. If that fails click below or call us and we can get that information for you.

Information on Your Tires Sidewall

 

Your tires sidewall comes with a plethura of information. Incluiding the size, your max speed, max load, max pressure, how many plys, your treadware traction ratings, tire type, and conditions the tire is made to withstand.

 

Click on "Read more" below for more info on:

  • Size

  • Speed

  • Load

  • Pressure

  • Ply

  • Treadwear

  • Temperature

  • Traction

TPMS, why its important.

light on dash
Shows TPMS in tire valve stem type

If your automobile has a tire pressure monitoring system, or TPMS, you probably have the above indicator on your dashboard. TPMS automatically checks to ensure you have the right tire pressure.


According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), tires can lose up to half their air pressure before they actually appear to casual observers to be underinflated. Tire failure due to underinflation affects your driving safety in two basic ways:

  • Integrity of the tire: Tire pressure literally changes the way the rubber meets the road, affecting traction, handling, steering, stability and braking.

  • Uneven tread wear: Worn tire tread not only affects traction and handling, but also puts you at risk for blowouts–a potentially extremely dangerous event to experience while driving.

Rotate & Balance

Tire rotation and balance are two very important steps in keeping your four wheels rolling properly.

 

Rotating tires at every other oil change, or every 6,000 miles, will keep your tires wearing properly. Front tires always wear a little faster than rears because you are constantly turning them which causes more stress/wear. Rotating these tires to the rear, and moving the rears to the front will keep all four of your tires wearing evenly

 

Rims and tires need to be evenly balanced due to the fact that they are a completely equal circle spinning in one constant direction. If the weight is off on any given part of the rotating rim and tire it can cause a wobble/vibration while driving. Most commonly this happens at certain speeds where the wheel starts to hop from having unbalanced weight in motion. Sometimes this will occur at one speed say 45, and then fade once you reach 50. It causes a discomfort for the vehicle occupants, but can also cause wear on steering/suspension components since it is stressing the parts that the actual wheel bolts on to. Wheel balance can be thrown off by many variants including; Tire Wear, Rust/Corrosion, Pot Holes, Weights Coming Off.

Check Your Air Pressure

Inaccurate pressure can cause poor mileage, uneven tire wear, or a tire blow-out. To prevent these events from happening it is important to maintain proper tire pressure.

 

 

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