Tire Ply 14 or 16?
I have a 32 foot Class A that has a gross weight of 18,000 lbs I need to replace the tires due to age, it has 14 ply tires on it now...I am thinking about going to a 16 ply tire with the new tires. ...
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haste maker wrote:
I have a 32 foot Class A that has a gross weight of 18,000 lbs I need to replace the tires due to age, it has 14 ply tires on it now...I am thinking about going to a 16 ply tire with the new tires.
Has anyone done this, & if so what were your reason for doing this, also did it change the ride to a harder ride?
For practical purposes, the change from a 14 PR to a 16 PR AT THE SAME INFLATION PRESSURE doesn't change things enough to sense anything different - like ride quality. What would be different is if you change the make/model.
What the increased PR does is allow you to increase the inflation pressure to be able to get a higher load carrying capacity.
You could inflate the lower PR tire to a higher pressure, too, but the structure of the tire isn't changing, so the tire gets hardly any increase in load carrying capacity.
