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.

How to read your tire size. If the number begins with a p the tire is called p metric and is built in the us. Apart from reading the tire size another important aspect is to read the load and speed indexes that your new tires need to tolerate. Reading the load speed index. 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.

The first letter on a tire indicates the tire s class. P metric and euro metric tires may have different load capacities. 245 section widthtread mm.