General information tyre inspection

GENERAL INFORMATION TYRE INSPECTION

WARNING: This is a multi- purpose vehicle Inspect tyres at weekly intervals to obtain maximum with wheels and tyres designed for both tyre life and performance and to ensure compliance on and off road usage. Only use wheels with legal requirements. Check for signs of incorrect and tyres specified for use on the vehicle. inflation and uneven wear, which may indicate a need for balancing or front wheel alignment, if the tyres The vehicle is equipped with tubeless radial ply tyres have abnormal or uneven wear patterns. See Fault as standard equipment. The tyres are of European diagnosis, Tyre Wear Chart metric size and must not be confused with the ’P’ size metric tyres available in North America. Check tyres at least weekly for cuts, abrasions, bulges and for objects embedded in the tread. More frequent Vehicle wheel sets, including spare wheel, must be inspections are recommended when the vehicle is fitted with the same make and type of tyre to the regularly used in off road conditions. correct specification and tread pattern. Under no circumstances must cross-ply or bias-belted tyres be To assist tyre inspection, tread wear indicators are used. moulded into the bottom of the tread grooves, as shown in the illustration below. For tyre specification and pressures. See GENERAL

SPECIFICATION DATA, Information, Wheels and Tyres

Alloy Wheels

Tubeless tyres are mounted on 7.0 inch wide by 16 inch diameter cast aluminium alloy wheels. The surface has a paint finish covered with a clear polyurethane lacquer. Care must be taken when handling the wheel to avoid scratching or chipping the finish.

The alloy wheel rim is of the asymmetric hump type incorporating a safety hump to improve location of the tyre bead in its seat. If difficulty is

experienced in fitting tyres to this type of rim. See When the tread has worn to a remaining depth of 1.6 Tyre Fitting mm, 0.06 in the indicators appear at the surface as bars which connect the tread pattern across the width WARNING: DO NOT fit an inner tube to an of the tread as shown in the illustration below. alloy wheel.