Is your Mitsubishi in need of new tires? If you’ve noticed your car’s overall ride becoming harsher, or you feel as if you lose traction more often than you’d like, it may be time to replace your rubber. Your vehicle’s tires are how it connects to the road, and their overall health makes a difference into how your car accelerates, burns fuel, and handles difficult road conditions. We hope this article can help you to not only better inspect whether you need new tires, but teach how to best preserve the lives of your current ones as well.
- Be sure to check that your tires are inflated to the manufacturer’s recommended levels. Your vehicle’s ideal tire pressure can be found either in the owner’s manual, or on the white sticker in your driver’s side door frame. A vehicle with low tire pressure requires more exertion from the engine to propel, resulting in poor fuel economy. If your vehicle’s tire pressure is too high, you risk wearing the tread down in an uneven manner, or worse, leaving yourself more vulnerable to a flat tire if they were to come into contact with a sharp piece of road debris.
- Analyze your daily commuting path and pay attention to whether or not it involves traversing poorly maintained roads. If possible, plan an alternative route to bypass these conditions.
- Be sure to get your tires rotated between every 6000 to 8000 miles. Every time you bring your vehicle to Jerry’s Mitsubishi for an oil change, we’ll rotate them for you! The Jerry’s It’s About You Loyalty Program includes tire rotations for LIFE! If you regularly service your vehicle at our Baltimore Mitsubishi certified repair facility, you’ll never have to worry about this step!
- Only ride on a spare tire as long as necessary. Spare tires are only meant to be used for brief periods of time, and will not last nearly as long as a regular tire. Not to mention, long term spare tire usage will result in uneven tread wear on your remaining three tires. Whenever one of your tires goes flat, be sure to repair or replace it as soon as possible!
- When replacing tires, you must do it all at once, otherwise you’ll have uneven tread wear and traction on the road.
Here are some steps you can take on your own to see if you are ready for a new set of tires:
- Your overall ride feels harsher than you recall. You feel bumps in the road more.
- Whenever it rains or snows, your vehicle slides more than usual. You’ll especially notice this when accelerating or braking.
- Your tires have uneven tread, balding edges, or visible wiring.
Your vehicle’s tire tread depth must be no shallower than 2/32 of an inch to pass a Maryland State Inspection. Instead of visiting a mechanic or spending the money on a tire depth gauge, there is a really simple method to checking your tires’ tread depth, and it will only require a penny! Examine your tire and find the area where the tread appears to be the shallowest. Stick the penny with Abe’s head first into the gap. If you can still see the top of Lincoln’s scalp, it’s time for a nice set of rubber. Lucky for you, Jerry’s Mitsubishi stocks a variety of premium tire brands including Bridgestone, Michelin, and Goodyear.
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