How often should I check the air in my tires?

[Bobo818]

how often should I add air in my tires? I’ve had my car since end of February and today a message came up that my tires were low. I just wonder how to maintain the air in tires. My previous car notified me when I needed to add air. Thanks! often should add air to their tires on the model 3?

 

[dandelot]

Check your tires for what? Unsure what you mean.

 

[Jo060]

Once you're driving, click service... Boom you have a live readout of your tire psi.

 

[PACEMD]

Push the buttons to check the pressure as often as you want, until you get used to it. But you do have to drive a few miles before it will register. Or it will notify you when the pressure is low. How many PSI is a different question. I run a bit higher, 42-45 psi, more efficient but a bit bumpier. 38-42+ is the recommended PSI, as I recall.

 

[jjrandorin]

Sorry how often should I add air in my tires? I’ve had my car since end of February and finally a message came up that my tires were low. I just wonder how to maintain the air in tires. My previous car notified me when I needed to add air. Thanks!

So does this one. It shows up as an alert on the screen, and if you let it get to the red level it will alert you. These type of things are very area dependent, but since you are looking for a suggestion, and are in my general area (SoCal), I will tell you that I check my tire pressure via a physical gauge at least twice a year, and definitely right about now (Nov) because when it gets colder, you generally have to put air in your tires.

EV range is a bit more susceptible to tire pressure, so I spot check it in the on screen menus about once every 4-6 weeks, and I have a small air compressor thing I use to put air in the tire when it drops some.

I never wait till the car tells me, since by that time, you have likely getting less range due to lack of air pressure.

Thats what I do, but you definitely could do whatever you did before, because this car will tell you just like your last one. Losing range in this one tends to bother people more than other cars though so /shrug...

 

[3sr+buyer]

More often in the autumn than in the spring, since falling temperatures result in falling pressures.

 

[BitJam]

More often in the autumn than in the spring, since falling temperatures result in falling pressures.

Aren't rising pressures in the spring just as important? I'm not arguing, I'm curious.

 

[gaswalla]

You all know that you can just check air pressures in the app, right? Go to controls and up in the top right corner is an icon with a half tire (looks like a donut to me for some reason) and the letters - psi. Get in a habit of checking it regularly- easy enough and can save frustration if a flat, etc.

 

[3sr+buyer]

Aren't rising pressures in the spring just as important? I'm not arguing, I'm curious.

Tires do slowly lose air over time. Rising temperatures in the spring are somewhat counteracted by air loss, so overinflation in spring happens to a lesser degree than underinflation in autumn. Also, underinflation is usually a greater safety hazard than overinflation, unless over the maximum for the tire (which is 50psi for the Michelin Primacy MXM4 235/45/18 T1).

 

[jjrandorin]

You all know that you can just check air pressures in the app, right? Go to controls and up in the top right corner is an icon with a half tire (looks like a donut to me for some reason) and the letters - psi. Get in a habit of checking it regularly- easy enough and can save frustration if a flat, etc.

Yeah, I know you can do this now, but Its still "new" to me. Checking there is not a part of my routine yet. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[Wennfred]

You do realize that you can check it on your Tesla App right while in bed every night.

Press on Controls on your Tesla App and on the upper right corner you will see PSI, tap on that. Make sure to update your app located in the App Store.

 

[f308gt4]

Glad this thread came up. I’ve been meaning to check my pressures and keep forgetting to do so. I just checked via the app, and I’m a little low on all 4 tires. First to do on my list tomorrow morning is to top them off.

Thanks!

 

[danarcha]

I usually check them every morning on the drive to work. Just use the voice command "tire pressure" and they will be displayed on the screen.

 

[dusty22]

Since these cars have no spare, I check the pressure before almost any drive; so easy to do. Reminds me of pre flighting a plane. If one tire is more than a couple of PSI down from the others, I assume I have a leak and get it checked out. I have used this method on my 30 year old, 240k mile Ford, although manually and not near as often as the Tesla, and have never had a flat on the road. I always caught problems before a total flat. The jack for that car and the temporary spare tire have never been used.

 

[danarcha]

Since these cars have no spare, I check the pressure before almost any drive; so easy to do. Reminds me of pre flighting a plane. If one tire is more than a couple of PSI down from the others, I assume I have a leak and get it checked out. I have used this method on my 30 year old, 240k mile Ford, although manually and not near as often as the Tesla, and have never had a flat on the road. I always caught problems before a total flat. The jack for that car and the temporary spare tire have never been used.

You are checking them with a tire guage BEFORE every drive?? The tire pressure sensors don't give a reading until you have driven about a mile, so to check the pressure before driving you would need to use an air pressure gauge on each tire. Do you really do this before every drive?

 

[ucmndd]

how often should I add air in my tires?

As often as you need it.

Unless it’s been longer than 47 days, in which case you should empty the air from your tires and replace it with fresh air because the air in there gets stale and can affect your mileage.

 

[xetairex]

Once you're driving, click service... Boom you have a live readout of your tire psi.

You can also just say ‘show me the tire pressures’. It’s a nice voice shortcut.

 

[xetairex]

As often as you need it.

Unless it’s been longer than 47 days, in which case you should empty the air from your tires and replace it with fresh air because the air in there gets stale and can affect your mileage.

 

[PACEMD]

You all know that you can just check air pressures in the app, right? Go to controls and up in the top right corner is an icon with a half tire (looks like a donut to me for some reason) and the letters - psi. Get in a habit of checking it regularly- easy enough and can save frustration if a flat, etc.

Unless you have FDS-beta and then you cannot, at least not yet........We with FSD-b are still on 2022.20.19, and by report you need 2022.24 or later for the app to show tire pressure. So there's that.......

 

[dusty22]

You are checking them with a tire guage BEFORE every drive?? The tire pressure sensors don't give a reading until you have driven about a mile, so to check the pressure before driving you would need to use an air pressure gauge on each tire. Do you really do this before every drive?

Not before; let me rephrase. I have a 22 M3 LR The numbers come up as soon as I back out of my driveway and travel a short distance on my street; maybe 100 feet. Yes I do it on every drive but sometimes forget so I check in the middle of a trip. The pressures will be 1 or 2 lbs higher by then but that's no issue; what I'm looking for is that all of the tires are basically the same pressure. A one pound difference, one way or the other on one tire is OK but anything past 2 psi gets my attention. That hasn't happened with my M3 yet. Has happened many times with my old Ford; watching one suspicious tire on that car right now.