The wrong tire dimension can impact your vehicles overall safety

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Tire selection is always very important, but it isn’t only making sure that you get the right tires for the correct season, you also need to make sure that you purchase the correct dimension. Getting the wrong dimension can easily happen if you have to purchase both new rims and tires, as then you don’t put the new tires on your old rims. This can happen if you purchase e.g., winter tires as a complement to your all-season tires. If you don’t notice that they are wrong dimension and mount the new rims and tires on your vehicle it can completely alter the performance of your vehicle.

Having too larger or small tire dimension can alter the behavior in corners so that the vehicle will over- or understeer and difficult to handle. It can also alter the reading of your speedometer where you might think that you are going legal speed and get stopped for speeding. The odometer reading will also be wrong, where your car puts on more miles than you actually drive, and the secondhand value will drop quicker than it should. You have both safety concerns and economic implications of mounting the wrong dimension of tires on your vehicle. A tire service station would be able to help you and make sure that you get the correct tires in the right dimension for your vehicle so that you can drive safely.

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