Determining Tire Pressure
I have read that you should not pay much attention to the inflation psi marked on the tires, but rather go by the vehicle recommendation printed on the door edge. In other information I have found ch...
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fla-gypsy wrote:
The vehicle maker gives you the psi to use based on the OEM tires. They cannot possibly fathom what each owner will replace those OEM tires with and makes that information invalid once the OEM tires are replaced unless replaced with the identical tire in every respect. Come on and lets think a little please. No vehicle maker is sticking their neck out on replacement parts obtained by the end user. Once the OEM tires are replaced use the tire makers inflation chart. Holy moly sometimes I just SMH.
Concur. Info on our trailer says to inflate tires to 80 psi, but tires that are currently on trailer says 50 psi max. My guess is somewhere along the line someone changed out tires, so definitely going to go with tire rating, not what is on trailer.
