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What does they mean for car tyres ?

What does "they" mean for the car wheel-tires?

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You can think about some codes on the car tires what they do mean about themselves? So ECOCAR rent-a-car's Car Rental Thailand will be going to explain about their codes for knowing and matching to you when you come to change a wheel-tire with your car series owner at the recap shop or the car showroom. As you are foreigners, these are the most important thing for knowing to solve in the basic problem about the tires and the car series which must match with your car or your car rental that you rent from somewhere. 

What do they mean for car tires?
The most important tire codes

On the car tires sidewall, you can see many codes that can say something such as date of produced, tire sizes and the highest speed for this tire. For example, 195/55R1585V.

195 = Car tire's width that means this tire has 195 millimeters-wide
55 = Car tire's sidewall in 55% of Car tire's width that can get the height as 107.25 millimeters (0.55 x 195 = 107.25)
R = Radial (Type of car wheel-tires)
15 = Wheel diameter size that means this tire has a diameter size in 15 inches.
85 = The payload for this car wheel-tire in 515 kilograms
V = The reference letter of the highest speed for this tire within 240 kilometers per hour.

What do they mean for car tires?
Date of production for the car wheel-tire

Check at their codes with DOT that there are 12 letters which you keep focus only the last four ones that "5015". It means the week and year of the production for this car wheel-tire such as

- "50" is the 50th week of the year (There are 52 weeks in the year) In this case, it would be produced on the Half of December
- "15" is the year for making this production in 2015. 

What do they mean for car tires?
The letter references for the highest speed that the tire can handle

The last letter on the car wheel tire's sidewall that refers to the highest speed that the tire can handle when you drive a car and make speed. 

U = 200 kilometers per hour
H = 210 kilometers per hour
VR = 210 kilometers per hour
V = 240 kilometers per hour
W = 270 kilometers per hour
Y = 300 kilometers per hour
Z = more 300 kilometers per hour 

What do they mean for car tires?
The ratio for car loading with the wheel tires

Their numbers that you can see, they are shown about a car loading with the wheel tire that you use for your car series owner. If there are more numeric values, they can be more loaded.

L1 = Kg L1 = Kg L1 = Kg
60 = 250 80 = 450 100 = 800
61 = 275 81 = 462 101 = 825
62 = 265 82 = 475 102 = 850
63 = 272 83 = 487 103 = 875
64 = 280 84 = 500 104 = 900
65 = 290 85 = 515 105 = 925
66 = 300 86 = 530 106 = 950
67 = 307 87 = 545 107 = 975
68 = 315 88 = 560 108 = 1,000
69 = 325 89 = 580 109 = 1,030
70 = 335 90 = 600 110 = 1,060
71 = 345 91 = 615 111 = 1,090
72 = 355 92 = 630 112 = 1,120
73 = 365 93 = 650 113 = 1,150
74 = 375 94 = 670 114 = 1,180
75 = 387 95 = 690 115 = 1,215
76 = 400 96 = 710 116 = 1,250
77 = 412 97 = 730 117 = 1,285
78 = 425 98 = 750 118 = 1,320
79 = 237 99 = 775 119 = 1,360


All in all, these are the details about how to know about the car tire codes for keeping to tell the mechanicians to change some car tires. We ourselves hope them to help you when you drive an owned car or the car rental. So if you need to use a car rental, come to ECOCAR rent-a-car's Car Rental Thailand every time that there are 10 branches around the Land of Smile to support your journey. 

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