Healthy tires are vital for your driving safety. One of the easier ways to maintain the health of your tires is to ensure that they are always at the correct pressure. Incorrectly inflated tires can lead to problems like additional wear or a blowout. We want you to enjoy your time on the roads here in Rockville, MD, so we’d like to tell you how to check tire pressure.
What Do You Need?
Checking your tires only requires a tire pressure gauge. This gauge doesn’t require special knowledge or understanding and is easy for anyone to use. There are two types of gauges: digital and manual. Either of these gauges will give you an accurate reading of your tire pressure. You can check your tire pressure at a gas station, but their gauges aren’t always calibrated regularly.
Advice Before Checking Tire Pressure
It’s important not to check your tire pressure after you’ve been driving. When you drive, your tires heat up. This heat is transferred to the air in your tires. As the air in the tires heats up, its pressure increases. If you check your tires too soon after driving, you’ll likely get a false reading. It’s advisable to allow at least three hours before checking your tires.
Find Your Tire Pressure Readings
The correct pressure for your tires is listed in your car’s manual and on a sticker or plate in the inside door jamb of the front driver side door. When you look at the tire pressure, your front and rear tires may have different readings. If your car is an FWD, the rear tires will have a higher pressure, and the front tires on an RWD car will have a higher pressure. The tires that carry the most weight will always have a higher pressure.
Each tire has a tire pressure marked on it. This pressure is not the correct pressure for your car, it’s the maximum allowable pressure for the tire.
Check Your Tires
Remove the cap from the tire nozzle and attach the tire pressure gauge. Write down the reading for the tire, then replace the cap and repeat this process with the other three tires. Once you have all the readings, compare the actual readings to the correct readings for your car. You now know which tires need to have their pressure corrected.
Low tire pressure will increase wear and damage to a tire, and high pressure could result in a blowout. Now you know how to check your tires, so you can help keep them in good condition for longer. If you’d like to know more about tire care, contact us at DARCARS 355 Toyota of Rockville or visit our tire information page to learn more!
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