How To Read Your Tire

Edmunds.com · June 2013

How To Read Your Tire

The sidewall of a car's tire has important information that tells you almost everything you need to know about it.

bcwhelan · June 2013

Hello,
Under the Treadwear Rating section it says, "The reference number is 100, so a tire with a treadwear rating of 200 has an 80 percent longer predicted tread life,..." But I think it should say that, "a treadwear rating of 200 has an 100 percent longer predicted tread life", or, alternatively, "a treadwear rating of 180 has an 80 percent longer predicted tread life".

EyeOnEVs · December 2020

Great article, very useful, thanks! One thing, the graphic of the tire points out the "M + S" as "Severe snow conditions", however, I did not see any explanation in the article for what the M, +, and S stand for and could there be other letters or numbers found here that represent something else.

Michaell · December 2020

EyeOnEVs said:
Great article, very useful, thanks! One thing, the graphic of the tire points out the "M + S" as "Severe snow conditions", however, I did not see any explanation in the article for what the M, +, and S stand for and could there be other letters or numbers found here that represent something else.

M = Mud
S = Snow

kyfdx · December 2020

EyeOnEVs said:
Great article, very useful, thanks! One thing, the graphic of the tire points out the "M + S" as "Severe snow conditions", however, I did not see any explanation in the article for what the M, +, and S stand for and could there be other letters or numbers found here that represent something else.

+ = and

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