ST vs LT tires.

gitane59 wrote:

Hoppypoppy wrote:
As someone else suggested, tire threads should be a sticky. The FACT is...no one KNOWS for sure. Everyone has anecdotal evidence and that satisfies most of us. If I have had ST's and they were a problem I probably won't buy them again. I will go with LT's. And vice versa. It's good to believe in what you buy and ONLY YOUR experience will determine your happiness.

And when someone posts with a ST or LT tire failure looking for answer and solutions that is what forums are best at. Allowing people to share advice and opinions based on previous experience is the ideal.
Unfortunately as with all things in society we have differing biases and opinions which leads to all sorts of disagreements and debate with the results being ongoing vitriolic debates when positions become intractable.
It would be ideal if all positions were outlined in a sticky with a detailed FAQ so less people would have to ask the same questions every few weeks therefore limiting these threads that ultimately end up degenerating to the point where there are either closed or deleted.

What would reduce the senseless debate more, would be to better target debate to categorize it by size and weight… xps ribs are a completely useless tire and/or recommendation for light weight trailers but you would be hard pressed to know that based on some post I have read…

The argument is almost always centered around good information and opinion on large heave trailers, that becomes more and more meaningless as the size and weight goes down… most of the LT proponents arguments have no or little meaning to the largest segment of the towable population (that is my opinion, not a hard count, I am not going to research it or debate it, it’s from recollection of RVIA sales figures)… it not the debate that is bad, debate is good…
That’s not to say the xps isn’t a great tire and it’s not to say the ST tire is even a good tire for a 15,000 pound 5er…

Neither is the extent some would have to go to, to follow the recommendations often made for towables, or are they even close to reasonable…

So as long as opinion and debate rages on between users of 185/80R13 LR C and others using LT235/85R16 E or LT235/85R16 G without being able to segregate the extremes of different uses the arguments will never change or become any more reasonable…