Tire Guides

Straight answers to the most common tire questions — how to read a size, keep your pressure right, read your tread, and handle a puncture. When you're ready for your exact fitment, look up your factory tire size.

• How to Read a Tire Size Decode every number and letter on your tire sidewall — width, aspect ratio, wheel diameter, load index, and speed rating.
• How to Check & Maintain Tire Pressure Find your real recommended PSI (not the tire's max), check it correctly, and why pressure drops in the cold.
• What Does My Tire Pressure Light Mean? Your TPMS warning light explained — what triggers it, how it works, and exactly what to do.
• How to Check Tire Tread Depth The penny test, the quarter test, wear bars, and what uneven wear patterns are telling you.
• How to Plug or Patch a Tire Repair a puncture safely, the real plug-vs-patch difference, and when a tire needs replacing instead.
• How to Change a Flat Tire Change a flat safely in 11 steps — jack placement, the lug-nut star pattern, and spare-tire limits.