Tire Care
Assessing tire wear
1. Locate wear indicator bars between
adjacent tread ribs, they will align with
one of the nine triangle indicators near
the upper sidewall of the tire
2. Inspect the wear indicator bars closely,
once they become flush with the road
contact surface of the tire, replace tires
immediately
Note: Your Fisker dealer will evaluate tire
wear when servicing your vehicle.
TIRE PRESSURES
WARNING: Tire pressures should be
checked using an accurate pressure
gauge when cold. Under-inflation is the
most common cause of tire failures and may
result in severe tire cracking, tread
separation or “blowout”, with unexpected
loss of vehicle control and increased risk of
injury.
Each tire, should be checked monthly when
cold and inflated to the inflation pressure
recommended by the vehicle manufacturer
on the vehicle placard or tire inflation
pressure label. (If your vehicle has tires of a
different size than the size indicated on the
vehicle placard or tire inflation pressure
label, you should determine the proper tire
inflation pressure for those tires).
As an added safety feature, your
vehicle has been equipped with a tire
pressure monitoring system (TPMS) that
illuminates a low tire pressure telltale when
one or more of your tires is significantly
under-inflated. Accordingly, when the low
tire pressure telltale illuminates, you should
stop and check your tires as soon as
possible, and inflate them to the proper
pressure. See TIRE PRESSURE
MONITORING SYSTEM, page 8.8.
Driving on a significantly under-inflated tire
causes the tire to overheat and can lead to
tire failure. Under-inflation also reduces
Battery range and tire tread life, and may
affect the vehicle’s handling and stopping
ability.
Please note that the TPMS is not a
substitute for proper tire maintenance, and
it is the driver’s responsibility to maintain
correct tire pressure, even if under-inflation
has not reached the level to trigger
illumination of the TPMS low tire pressure
telltale.
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