LT vs ST's - Canadian Tires cries "Illegal!".
I replaced all 4 tires on my 35' horse trailer in the last 2 weeks - Canadian Tire had some excellent LT tires that were on 50% off "end of line liquidation" discount and the price was too hard to res...
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spud1957 wrote:BFL13 wrote:spud1957 wrote:
I'd love for you to show me your vehicle weight rating label that states your truck's rear axle is rated at 10,000lbs. That label is all TC cares about. Otherwise I'll stick to the 6084.:)
The tires have the lowest weight rating so they set the label's GAWR.
Not necessarily true. My OEM 18" tires are rated at 3420lbs but I still have a 6100lb rating per my label. It's a weird rating system. What it ends up is a tire retailer will not install tires that have a lower rating that's on the "official" axle rating label.
So that means you have a component that can carry less weight than the tires and that component is setting the GAWR of 6100.
No idea, maybe the 4WD mechanisms? You could find out from Ford what the specs are for those various parts.
I fully agree the tire store should not put lower rated tires on than the GAWR. The vehicle owner might load up to the GAWR and that would be more than the new tires are rated for.
Anyway we are getting off-topic from the OP and just "talking trucks" now :)
