Tire Pressure for a Camry

Charlie · 2007-11-05T12:15:43+00:00

Read a long thread about tire pressure. The strongest replies were from owners of Ford and GM and Chrysler Jeep trucks? Lots of good ideas, but this is supposed to be a Camry forum? Anyway, I have a 2000 model Camry. I use Yokohama tires. I have information from a source I trust (not internet) that the Yokohama's I buy are priced at the top of the "street" tire range but built to specs that are in the low end of far more expensive "performance" tires. Also, these tires carry a model number designation and are rated slightly better for heat than the 'named' versions. This is apparently because they are built for the heat of southwestern summers. The car manual recommends pressure in the high 20 psi range. The OEM tires had a maximum sidewall rating of 30 or 32 psi. When those wore out I put Yokohama's on with a sidewall maximum rating of 35 psi. The tire dealer insisted on keeping the recommended Toyota pressures. I got about 80% of the rated mileage and a very nice discount on the current set of tires. The latest tires have a different- upgraded- number and a maximum sidewall rating of 45 psi. They also got that pressure placed in them at my insistence. Now I will keep a check on wear with a tread depth gage and find the pressure at which the tires wear evenly across the treads. And, after a lifetime of driving more vehicles and more different kinds of vehicles more miles on the roads of the nation than most of you can imagine or want to know (except racing; but then that is a very specialized kind of thing) I would suggest that the tires on any road car or light truck be inflated at the highest pressure within the tire manufacturers specs which will result in above mentioned flat tread wear. Better pressure for the specific tires in use will generally result in longer tire life and better and safer handling on the road. "M+S" rated tires should also be a requirement for your own sake.