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?
Forum Discussion
JIMNLIN wrote: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.
My post that you have taken upon yourself to correct into your wording that is equal to mine in another descriptive method is moot.
We still don't have an accurate description of the tires smarty is trying to describe. There isn't much to comment about with his description because it doesn't lead is to a load range or a descriptive tire size.
