A number of expensive damages can happen to your car just from driving over a pothole or 20, starting with your wheels. At this point, am singlehandedly funding the entire tire industry with the number of potholes I have already hit his year. Tires are not cheap, friends. Neither are rims. Trust and believe that I will do everything in my power to avoid hitting every pothole, that apparently doubles as a portal to another world so that I don’t spend every paycheck for the foreseeable future on tires and pothole base repairs.

While avoiding the pothole of death isn’t always an option, one main way you can try to avoid damage is by properly inflating your tires. Over-inflated and under-inflated tires increase the risk of tire and rim damage when driving over a pothole, so if you know your tire pressure is low, get to a gas station and put air in it. If it is too high, let some air out. Here’s a good question to ask yourself, “Do I know the proper tire pressure for my tire?” The proper tire pressure is NOT located on the tire. This value is the maximum pressure. Please don’t put 50 psi in your tire.

The most common place to find the proper tire pressure is on the door or door frame of your car.  It is also in your owner’s manual. Close up of the tire placard sticker on the door or door frame which has some useful info like proper tire pressure.If all else fails, the average is 33psi. If you see an ORANGE symbol that looks a lot like a cauldron of exclamation mark soup light up on your dashboard, it means your tire pressure is low. If you don’t have this feature check tire pressure every time (of higher importance in winter) you fill up on gas and add air if necessary.

Don’t let the potholes win. Drive smart, and safe. Well, as safe as you can when the streets you are driving on are full of craters. Avoid them when you can, and if you can’t and there is damage, stop by Fiore Toyota and we will be happy to get your tires serviced for you so you don’t have to worry.