Tire Care and Maintenance Tire Care and Maintenance Maintaining Tire Pressures Warning: Under-inflation is the most common cause of tire failures and can If you are not towing a trailer, keep tires cause a tire to overheat, resulting in inflated to the pressures shown on the Tire severe tire cracking, tread separation, or and Loading Information label, even if it differs blowout, which causes unexpected loss of from the pressure printed on the tire itself. The vehicle control and increased risk of Tire and Loading Information label is located injury. Under-inflation also reduces the on the center door pillar and is visible when vehicle's range and tire tread life. the front door is open. Warning: Check tire pressures using an If you are towing a trailer, do not use the tire accurate pressure gauge when tires are pressures printed on the Tire and Loading cold. It takes only about one mile (1.6 km) Information Label. Instead, refer to the tire of driving to warm up the tires sufficiently pressures published in the towing topic (see to affect tire pressures. Parking the Towing and Accessories on page 86). vehicle in direct sunlight or in hot weather can also affect tire pressures. If you must check warm tires, expect increased pressures. Do not let air out of warm tires in an attempt to match recommended cold tire pressures. A hot tire at or below the recommended cold tire inflation pressure is dangerously under-inflated. Warning: Do not use any tire sealant other than the type provided in a Tesla tire repair kit. Other types can cause tire pressure sensors to malfunction. If your Model X did not include a tire repair kit, you can purchase one from Tesla. The Tire Pressure indicator light on the instrument panel alerts you if one or more tires is under- or over- inflated. The Tire Pressure indicator light does not immediately turn off when you adjust tire pressure. After inflating the tire to the recommended pressure, you must drive over 15 mph (25 km/h) for more than 10 minutes to activate the Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS), which turns off the Tire Pressure indicator light. If the indicator light flashes for one minute whenever you power on Model X, a fault with the TPMS is detected (see TPMS Malfunction on page 188). You can display tire pressures on the instrument panel by choosing to display Car Status using the right or left steering wheel buttons (see Using Left Steering Wheel Buttons on page 49 or Using Right Steering Wheel Buttons on page 50). You can also choose whether you want to display tire pressures using BAR or PSI by touching Controls > Display > Tire Pressure. Maintenance 183