Maintenance
Tire speed ratings
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The chart below lists many of the dif-
ferent speed ratings currently being
used for passenger car tires. The Any tires that are over 6 years old,
speed rating is part of the tire size based on the manufacturing date,
designation on the sidewall of the (including the spare tire) should be
tire. This symbol corresponds to that replaced by new ones. You can find
tire's designed maximum safe oper- the manufacturing date on the tire
ating speed.
sidewall (possibly on the inside of the
wheel), displaying the DOT Code.
The DOT Code is a series of num-
bers on a tire consisting of numbers
and English letters. The manufactur-
ing date is designated by the last four
digits (characters) of the DOT code.
Speed
Rating
Symbol
Maximum Speed
S
T
H
V
Z
112 mph (180 km/h)
118 mph (190 km/h)
130 mph (210 km/h)
149 mph (240 km/h)
The front part of the DOT means a
plant code number, tire size and
tread pattern and the last four num-
bers indicate week and year manu-
factured.
Above 149 mph (240 km/h)
For example:
DOT XXXX XXXX 1612 represents
that the tire was produced in the 16th
week of 2012.
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