JMC JIMMY 1993 Owner's Manual page 310

Service & Appearance Care
Buying New Tires
To find out what kind and size of tires you need, look at the CertificationlTire
label. The tires installed on your vehicle when
it was new had a Tire
Performance Criteria Specification (TPC Spec) number on each tire's sidewall.
When you get new tires, get ones with that same TPC Spec number. That
way, your vehicle will continue to have tires that are designed to give proper
endurance, handling, speed rating, traction, ride and other things during
normal service on your vehicle. If your tires have an all-season tread design,
the TPC number will be followed by a "MS" (for mud and snow).
If you ever replace your tires with those not having a TPC Spec number,
make sure they are the same size, load range, speed rating and construction
type (bias, bias-belted or radial) as your original tires.
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CAUTION
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Mixing tires could cause you to
lose
control while driving. I f you mix
tires of different types {like
radial
and bias-belted tires) the vehicle
may
not
handle properly, and you could have a
crash.
Be sure to
use
the
same size
and type
fires
on
all four
wheels.
Uniform Tire Quality Grading
The following information relates to the system developed by the United
States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration which grades tires by
treadwear, traction and temperature performance. (This applies only to
vehicles sold in the United States.)
Treadwear
The treadwear grade is a comparative rating based on the wear rate of the
tire when tested under controlled conditions on a specified government test
course. For example, a tire graded 150 would wear one and a half (1-112)
times as well on the government course as a tire graded 100. The relative
performance of tires depends upon the actual conditions of their use,
however, and may depart significantly from the norm due to variations in
driving habits, service practices and differences in road characteristics and
climate.
Traction-A, 6, C
The traction grades, from highest
to
lowest are:
A,
B, and
C.
They represent
the tire's ability to stop on wet pavement as measured under controlled
conditions on specified government test surfaces of asphalt and concrete. A
tire
marked C may have poor traction performance.
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