How Do You Understand Car Tire Size Charts?
Finding the right tire size is like learning a whole new language. With the letters, numbers, slash letter, number and maybe another letter combination, car tire sellers can determine which tire is best fits your vehicle. While it may sound like some type of cryptic morse code, it’s not. Here’s how to understand car tire size charts. Recognize the first letter stands for vehicle type for which the tire is to be installed. For example P means Passenger, T mean Temporary Spare, LT means Light Truck, ST stands for Special Trailer and the letter. That part of the tire size chart isn’t too difficult to decipher. Decipher the tire width number. The digits that follow the letters represent the width or the cross section measurement in millimeters. Therefore a tire size code of P225 means the tire is for a Passenger vehicle and the tire cross-section width is 225 millimeters measured from one sidewall to the other. Understand the concept of aspect ratio. The aspect ratio follows the slash afte
