China Tire Manufacturing
In the referenced document you will find information that may help your fears about double standards for “off shore” tire manufacturers. This is about Passenger and Light Truck tires. Many of them ...
Forum Discussion
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
What worries me about calculating loads and maximums, extremes, is inertia. A rig that bumps up and down exerts a lot more weight on a tire than a rig that is static in vertical inertia. Does this not affect (skew) many "GVW Maximum" amateur calculations?
I think I get what you are trying to say. I would assume that the hard part of this calculation is already done for us. The trailer manufactures determines the load exerted at GVW and then specifies an adequate tire rating. Because tire ratings are standardized, it becomes plug and play after that e.g. the trailer company equips a LR E ST tire at 3520lbs so any tire capable of meeting a load rating of 3520lbs should suffice. Of course there are exceptions and one should use their brains when doing this.
One thing I can think of is if you upsize to a tire that is much heavier than O.E. the effect it would have on braking forces. My feeling is that one should not go up more than 1 load range on their trailer. Also I feel one should never plus size more than 1+. Any more than this and I think you start to stray to far from the trailer design considerations.
These are just my feelings and there is a lot more that can be said on this. Honestly I think Capri Racer could answer questions like this better than most people on the forum. A large portion of us are just armchair engineers :B
