Tires

B.O. Plenty wrote:

N-Trouble wrote:

TXiceman wrote:
LT tires generally have more flexible sidewalls than trailer tires. Also, on an LT, check the load rating.

Ken

^^THIS^^ is so UNTRUE and what the ST tire industry has brainwashed consumers with.

When I had STs pulled off my 5th and replaced with Bridgestone Duravis R250s the sidewalls on them is easily 2x them crappy China Bombs. There is absolutey no comparison between these tires. Dont believe everything you read or hear. See for yourself...

I agree 100%. The ST tires that came off my last rig were like bicycle tires compared to the Michelin Ribs that replaced them. If they made a LT tire that was in the load range I need, I would have them again in a heartbeat.
B.O.

Personally, I'd have zero problems running an LT 10% over the rating, but that's just the old farmer in me. :B Also, given that ST tires have about zero reserve capacity and passenger rated tires have about a 25% reserve (according to any number of tire people I've talked to in the past few decades), I don't have an issue with it. Hell, given the out and out abuse I gave tires while farming, and still drove them 10's of thousand of miles more, until steel was showing, I don't feel unsafe. :B

Lyle