Winterizing a Car: Checking Tire Pressure

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to talk about tire pressure. If you can't read the marking on your tire, usually in the door of your car, the trunk of your car, or the glove compartment, there will be the size of your tires recommended for your car and the air pressure. On the market today there's probably twenty different types of air gauges you can get from digital to the old fashioned "in your glove compartment $.99 gauge", to a truck tire gauge. We're going to use the truck gauge to check my car pressure tire. We're going to remove the cap, we'll sit it where we can see it so we can put that back on. That prevents dirt from going in the valve stem and a little kid coming along and pushing the air out. We have a reading of 30 pounds, that's what we want. We'll install our cap back on, this tire's good to go. You can just check, make sure you don't have any nails in it, the sidewall isn't torn up, tire looks good to go. We'll do that on all four tires. I like to do it whenever I get a chance, basically once a month I like to come out and put the gauge on there, visually check them. I give it a once over every day just walk by, make sure the profile of the tire looks good, it's not down on air, ready to ride. This is your MS marking on your tire for mud and snow and all season. It's a radial tire."