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CapriRacer
Explorer II
Feb 07, 2012

Revived Trailer Tire Thread (formerly on the 5th Wheel Forum

OK, I'll try this again but with a different tack. I am of the opinion that ST tires should have a 15% reserve capacity (85% of the load at a given pressure) in order to be reasonably sure they wo...
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Francesca_Knowl
Explorer
Mar 04, 2012
JIMNLIN wrote:
Fed 571 regs says this about P tires capacity on a trailer:

"When a passenger car tire is installed on a multipurpose passenger vehicle, truck, bus, or trailer, the tire's load rating shall be reduced by dividing by 1.10 before calculating the sum ....(snip).



Sorry if this is redundant...Can/will you post a link to the regs you snip from above?

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