What Does the Information on the Side of a Tire Mean?
You may wonder why you need to know about the information imprinted on the side of your tire. Even if you take your vehicle to a shop to have your tires serviced, it’s still beneficial to you to have a little working knowledge of the basics. The series of abbreviations are fairly straightforward.
There is sometimes a letter that begins the segment. A “P,” for example, represents passenger car. The three-digit number, 225 for instance, signifies the tire’s width in millimeters. There are a slash and a two-digit number, perhaps 65. That means that the tire’s height…