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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...

elkhorn98

Explorer

Oct 27, 2012

Here is a thread covering testing of st and lt tires.
http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/23225970.cfm

Decide for yourself what you want. Another issue is most st tires are recommended to be replaced every 3-4 years so you can get almost twice the life out of a lt tire. So i think in most cases it will be cheaper to go lt.

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