fifth wheel tires
Need to replace tires on my 38' fifthwheel that weighs 18,000 lbs Tires that came with rig are five ply I got a great deal on 12 ply tires Any reason for not upgrading to 12 ply tires?
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You should better describe a five ply tire. Is that three belt plies and two sidewall plys?
In today's tire industry, ST & LT tires load capacities are defined by a single load range letter following a tire service description or written out on the tire sidewall like this, LRD. A LRD tire would be equal to an 8 ply tire in the old ply rating system.
Yeah....the tire industry still uses ply rated or ply rating sometimes written as a PR in their brochures/website adds.
The OP probably reading the tires actual number of plies that go like this for just about all our high capacity LT and ST tires...
2 body plies (poly or steel)...
2 steel tread plies
1 ply under the tread plies usually nylon.
