Set up your tyre profile

A caravan can look fine from the outside while its tyres are aged, under-rated, or simply not the tyres the paperwork assumes. The tyre profile lives in the Garage tab: open the vehicle or trailer, then go to the Tyres section. Read the sidewall once, enter what is fitted to that asset, and loadmate uses it for tyre age and load-rating headroom. Come back when the tyres change, or when you find a more accurate date or load index.

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What the tyre profile represents

The tyre profile is the set of tyre details fitted to one vehicle or one trailer. It captures the tyre size, load index, fitted date, manufacturing date if you can read it, tyre count, and a few optional details such as brand, model, speed rating, pressure, and notes. If the tyres on an asset are not all the same, enter the lower-rated tyre so the safety figures stay conservative, and add the difference in the notes field. If you replace the whole set later, use Log tyre change rather than editing old history by hand. The profile sits with the asset because tyres matter when that vehicle or trailer is being assessed. You should not have to hunt through a separate maintenance file to answer a simple question like “how old are these tyres?” or “does this load index still leave enough headroom?”

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Details to collect before you start

Almost everything you need is printed on the tyre sidewall, so it helps to read one tyre before you open the form. Collect:

• Tyre size, the size code on the sidewall, for example 265/70R17.
• Load index, the per-tyre rating number, for example 121. There is an in-app tip showing where this number sits on the sidewall if you are not sure which figure it is.
• Tyre count, how many road tyres are fitted to the asset, for example 4 on a vehicle, 2 on a single-axle trailer, or 4 on a tandem.
• Fitted date, the month and year the tyres went on.
• Manufacturing date from the DOT code, if you can read it. This is optional but worth adding when you can.

A few details are optional and can be left out: speed rating, brand and model, the maximum pressure marked on the sidewall, and notes. The sidewall is the source for the size, load index, and DOT code. Reading it gives loadmate an accurate profile to watch.

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Open the Tyres section from Garage

The tyre profile lives inside each asset, not on a separate screen. To reach it, open Garage, choose the vehicle or trailer you want, then scroll to the Tyres section on the asset’s overview. From there you can add the profile, edit it later, or log a tyre change. If the asset has no tyre profile yet, the Tyres section shows an empty state with an action to add tyres. Once a profile is saved, the section shows a summary of what is fitted along with the current age and load-rating headroom.

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Enter or edit the asset tyre profile

From the Tyres section, open the add or edit form. Enter the tyre size, load index, and fitted date, then set the tyre count. These are the fields the form needs; the rest sit under an optional details section you can expand if you have the information. The tyre count should match the tyres carrying that asset’s load. loadmate uses it with the load index for broad asset-level capacity and headroom checks. It is not a wheel-by-wheel setup step. Saving tyre details requires Pro.

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Log a tyre change

When the tyres are replaced, use Log tyre change from the Tyres section. This opens a change sheet with the current tyres shown at the top, then fields for the new tyres. Update the details that changed, usually the fitted date, manufacturing date, tyre size, load index, and odometer. Optional details such as brand, model, and notes are there if you want a clearer history later. Logging the change records the event and resets the age calculation for that asset. Editing the existing tyre profile is better for fixing a typo or adding a missing DOT date; logging a change is better when the physical tyres have actually been replaced.

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Add the manufacturing date from the DOT code

The manufacturing date tells loadmate when the rubber was actually made, which can be a year or two before the tyres were fitted. Adding it gives a more honest starting point for tyre age than the fitted date alone. You read it from the DOT code on the sidewall. The last four digits are the week and year of manufacture, so 3421 means week 34 of 2021. Enter it as a month and year. If you leave the manufacturing date blank, loadmate falls back to the fitted date for age, so you still get age findings either way; the manufacturing date just makes them more accurate.

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Save and review the Health result

When you save the profile, loadmate stores what is fitted and flags the score and tyre findings to refresh. The next time the Rig and Health surfaces load, they recalculate against the new profile, so the tyre age reading and the load-rating headroom on this asset update to match what you entered. The saved Tyres sheet shown above becomes the place you check the tyres on this asset at a glance: what is fitted, how old it is, and whether the load rating still has headroom against the current load. You should only need to open it again when the tyres change or when you want to correct the source details. For what the figures mean and how to act on them, see Tyre pressure and load. If you have not added the asset yet, start with Add a tow vehicle or Add a trailer.