This document provides tips to prevent tire blowouts by keeping tires properly inflated according to the owner's manual, avoiding potholes that can damage tires, not overloading the vehicle beyond its weight rating, maintaining tires through routine inspections, and being aware that blowouts are more likely during hot weather.

1. How Caring for Your Car Tires
Can Prevent a Blowout
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2. Ways to Prevent a Tire
Blowouts.
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3. Keep tires inflated to the right PSI
● Underinflated tires can’t properly
carry the weight of your car
● It puts major stress on the tire,
causes it to overflex, which leads
to a blowout
● You can find the right PSI level in
your owner’s manual or on the
small place card on the driver’s
side of the doorjamb.

4. Avoid Potholes
● They can do a lot of
damage on your car
● Can cause
alignment,
suspension, and tire
issues

5. Don’t overload your car
● Your car actually has a weight
limit
● If you exceed it, it can cause a
lot of stress on the car
● Make sure you check your Gross
Vehicular Weight Rating (in the
owner’s manual or the driver’s
side doorjamb

6. Keep up with maintenance
● Do a routine tire
inspection
● It’s even more pressing
if you drive on the
highway often
● If you don’t take care of
them, they will wear out
faster

7. Keep an eye on your car tires
● Keep an eye on them in
the Spring and Summer.
● Blowouts are more likely
to happen when the
pavement is at its
hottest