How To Read Your Tire Size

Conversely if you want your car to be lower you can use tires with a width of 180 and below.

How to read your tire size. P designates this tire as a passenger car tire an lt before the tire size would mean the tire is a light truck tire and a european metric tire would have no letter before the tire size. Width in millimeters the first of the tire size numbers gives you the width of the tire from sidewall to sidewall in millimeters. 245 section widthtread mm. The first letter on a tire indicates the tire s class. If a tire size has no letters at the beginning this indicates a euro metric tire.

You can find this index code on the backside printed after the tire size code. If the number begins with a p the tire is called p metric and is built in the us. Reading the load speed index.