Mercedes-Benz 2006 C 350 4MATIC Operator's Manual download pdf (Page 390)

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Operation

Tires and wheels

1 DOT

2 Manufacturer’s identification mark

3 Tire size

4 Tire type code (at the option of the tire

manufacturer)

5 Date of manufacture

DOT (D

epartment of Transportation)

A tire branding symbol 1 (

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which denotes the tire meets require-

ments of the U.S. Department of

Transportation.

Manufacturer’s identification mark

The manufacturer’s identification mark 2

(

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manufacturer.

New tires have a mark with two symbols.

Retreaded tires have a mark with four sym-

bols. For more information on retreaded

tires, see (

컄 page 363).

Tire size

The code 3 (

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tire size.

Tire type code

The code 4 (

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option of the manufacturer, be used as a

descriptive code for identifying significant

characteristics of the tire.

Date of manufacture

The date of manufacture 5 (

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identifies the week and year of manufac-

ture.

The first two figures identify the week,

starting with “01” to represent the first full

week of the calendar year. The second two

figures represent the year.

For example, “3202” represents the 32nd

week of 2002.

i

For illustration purposes only. Actual data

on tires are specific to each vehicle and may vary

from data shown in above illustration.

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