Hyundai Tucson tires

The Tucson is one of the simpler cars in this range to get right. Two OE sizes, one pressure, front and rear equal. The part that trips people up is not the number, it is finding the label, because Hyundai does not put it where most people look first.

The sizes Hyundai fitted

The NX4 generation runs from 2022 and changed fitments from the car before it. Sizes and pressures here are confirmed on the 2023 car. The 2018 to 2021 TL generation is a different vehicle for fitment purposes and is not covered by this page.

• 235/65R17 on SE, SEL and the Blue Hybrid. This is the volume fitment.
• 235/55R19 on Limited, Limited Hybrid, Limited Plug-In Hybrid, N Line, XRT, SEL with the Convenience package, SEL Convenience Hybrid and SEL Plug-In Hybrid.

Two sizes appear on one model because wheel diameter moves with trim while the car underneath stays the same. On this generation hybrid and plug-in hybrid trims share fitments with the petrol trims, so the powertrain badge tells you nothing about the tire. The sidewall tells you for certain. See finding your tire size.

Where the Tucson puts its placard

The driver's door sill, on the driver-side centre pillar. The Hyundai Motor Group owner's manual describes the tire and loading information label as located on the driver's door sill, giving the original tire size and the recommended cold tire pressures.

That wording is from a group manual in the shared Hyundai and Kia format rather than from a document for this exact model and year, so treat it as the make-level answer and confirm it on the car. Practically: open the driver's door, and if the edge of the door is bare, look at the upright post beside the seat. That post is the B-pillar, and it is where a large part of the industry now prints this label. Our tire pressure placard guide lists which makes go where.

How to read it once you find it

1. Cold pressure, front.
2. Cold pressure, rear. Equal to the front on this vehicle.
3. The original tire size. If what is on the car now is a different size, the placard pressure stops being a direct answer.
4. The spare, whose figure is separate and usually much higher than a road tire.

Cold means parked at least three hours, or driven under about a mile. A tire warms as it rolls and its pressure rises with it, so a reading taken after a drive is high.

The verified pressure

35 psi front and rear, on both fitments. Both pressure sources we used report a uniform 35 front and rear for every 2023 Tucson row they carry, with no dissenting figure anywhere.

One caveat belongs with that. The second source's list of sizes does not match the OE fitments for this car, so it corroborates the figure and not the size mapping. The trim-to-size table above comes from the retailer fitment database instead. In plain terms: we are confident about 35, and the size your trim came on is worth reading off the sidewall rather than assumed from a chart.

Front and rear being equal removes the usual mistake on a modern crossover, which is setting all four to one number when the car wanted two. Here one number is correct.

Replacing fewer than four

All-wheel drive is optional on the Tucson, through Hyundai's HTRAC system. No Hyundai tire-matching tolerance was found for it, and Tire Rack's per-manufacturer matching table does not cover Hyundai, so there is no numeric limit to quote. We will not invent one.

What that means in practice is a judgement at the car. On a front-drive Tucson, one or two tires is a normal job, and two new ones go on the rear axle. On an HTRAC car with three well worn tires, matching all four is the safe course, and if you would rather not, we say so before fitting rather than after. See how many tires and mixing tire brands.

What changes on a mobile Tucson fitting

• Direct TPMS, with a sensor in each road wheel, so the job ends with a reset or a relearn rather than just a pressure check.
• Two wheel sizes, 17 and 19 inch, both ordinary to handle in a driveway or a parking bay.
• Plug-in hybrid trims are heavier than the petrol cars on the same size. We keep the load index rather than matching the size alone.
• The label may be on the pillar rather than the door edge, so we open the door fully and look before quoting a pressure.

What we do

We supply the tires and fit them where the car is parked. Pressure is set to the figure on your own label rather than to a database, the TPMS is reset or relearned where the vehicle supports it, and the old tires leave with us. Off-season sets can go into tire storage. Pricing is on our mobile tire replacement page.

Questions people ask

• What psi does a Tucson take? 35 front and rear on both OE fitments, reported uniformly by both sources we checked.
• Where is the label? The driver's door sill, on the centre pillar. If the door edge is bare, look at the upright post beside the seat.
• Does my hybrid take a different size? Not necessarily. On this generation hybrid trims share fitments with the petrol trims, so read the size from the sidewall or the label.
• Can I fit two tires to an AWD Tucson? Sometimes, and we look at the other two first. No Hyundai tolerance figure exists to quote, so it is a judgement made at the car.
• Do you reset the tire light? Yes, where the vehicle supports it. Each wheel has its own sensor on this car.