FastEagle wrote:
After all is said and done here we will have to come to a common bottom line.
The federal government writes the rules and regulations for everything that is being operated on our highways and by-ways. Being bureaucratic about it numerous agencies will share in the responsibilities.
What it boils down to for the end user is a simple placarding system that lists the minimum standards for a given situation. Deviation from the placarding information requires a certain amount of research (homework) when an end user decides to make their own final decision about their deviations. I hope it was to go up a load range or equal to it.
Tires are simple if one follows the simple safety standard to select replacement tires of equal or greater load capacity. Select any design that suit’s the situation, get some rims that match up with your tire selection. Make sure everything will fit into the wheel well and the axle spacing is sufficient, install your new tire/rim assemblies and hit the road. If there is such a thing as “the best” tire I wouldn’t have Bridgestone’s on our SUV, Goodyear’s on the truck and TowMax on the trailer.
Everything (EVERYTHING!) we read about RV trailer OE tires screams at us to increase our tire’s load capacity. So why in the world would we want to take our trailer to a set of scales and set the tire pressures to match the load on the heaviest end of an axle? There is a 95% chance that the vehicle manufacturer has set the OE tire pressures to the maximum amount allowed. Why would you want to lower that standard when the tire manufacturer has stipulated that the tires are best when operated at maximum sidewall tire pressure? Use the scales to stay below GVWR/GAWR and to balance your loads. Keep your tires at placard pressures.
Many people have mileage expectations. None of the ST tire manufacturers offer such a thing. A bias design might last 5000-12000 miles. Radials could get as much as 20000 miles and with extra load capacity up to as much as 30000 miles. Anything beyond that I expect the owner is constantly on the road and very tire savvy.
FastEagle
FE a month or two ago you had a plan to have a much better tire than a TowMax on your trailer. Why did you back away from that plan? Do you get free tires? Chris
