Tire Load Rating Tips

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Summary: Learn what to consider in load ratings when buying new tires with expert automotive tips in this free online auto repair and car maintenance video clip.

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Rick Geissler Rick Geissler is a second generation tire expert and owner of A & R Tire center in Rancho Cucamonga California. The business has thrived for over 40 years and... read more

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Tire Load Rating Tips

RICK GEISSLER: Hi, I'm Rick Geissler, expertvillage.com, coming to you from A & R Tire, talking about how to buy tires. On every tire today built, not only you'll see this on this sticker, but if the sticker's not there, it's molded into the side wall of the tire. That goes for all passenger and light-truck tires. And when you get into P-metric, I'm sorry, when you get into the light-truck, load-rating tires, it's not on the tire itself. But when you're looking at your--you can always look at the AA or whatever that tires has. But also when you're looking at your load ratings, after your speed rating on a tire, you're going to see the load rating, and the load rating here is an index of 97. You can go to a book and get the calculation of that load rating for that vehicle to make sure, and that's another number, you never want to decrease that, so you don't buy a set of tires that have an 84 load rating when your tires came with a 92.