![]() They'll also have a thicker rubber, deeper tread, and stronger bead bundle. Light truck tires will have additional what are called plies, or layers, of woven nylon or steel to construct what is known as the carcass of the tire. Radial tires are the most common tires on the market for passenger vehicles, as their construction allows for a much better ride compared to the bias ply. Typically you will see an R that separates the sidewall height number and the size of the wheel number, and that'll tell you that is a radial ply constructed tire, as opposed to its counterpart the bias ply. After that, the next number is the size of the wheel. The next number is a percentage of the first number and is used to determine the height of the sidewall. The first number on a metric size is what's known as the section width of the tire, or basically the width of the tire, and is measured from the sidewall to the other sidewall in millimeters. Typically the designation is imprinted before the number, and if it's not, then most likely it's a passenger tire. There's P for passenger, LT for light truck, then ST for the special trailer, then T for the temporary tire. Metric sizes start with a number in millimeters and there are four different designation categories for metric sizes. One of them is metric, and the other is flotation. ![]() To start, there are two different types of listed measurements for tire sizes. ![]() But first, we have to understand how to read the tire sizes. ![]() There is a ton of information to break down when trying to decide on what's the best tire size to purchase for your own application, and it can be a real challenge, and also why we have a gallery on our website, made specifically to see what size tire fits, and what doesn't, and that helps take a lot of that guesswork out of trying to figure it out for yourselves. If you guys have ever looked at a tire size chart and thought it was a little overwhelming, well, that's because it is. ![]()
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