Help with tire choice
Hi, guys. I know this is about the ten thousandth tire thread, but I would really like to hear from those who've been there and done that, so I don't make an expensive mistake. I want to do this proje...
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Buzzcut1 wrote:ah64id wrote:
I ordered my alum Visions on ebay, best price I found and here within a week.
To me the added weight of the steel isn't worth the cost for 350lbs gain. The 245 gets you 9000, the DRW RAWR is 9350 with a 10,912 axle and 12K worth of tires. IMHO, stay at 9,350 or less.
Buzz, what psi where you running in the 285's? Slow leak, or road hazard? I really doubt it was weight related unless they where under inflated, or heavier than you thought. Just thinking out lout... I see all kinds of overloaded 265/70R17, by thousands of lbs, and rarely see a blowout. Not condoning, just saying. I run 19.5's and rarely top 6200 on the rear axle, so you know where I stand.
I check them every time we start out. they were at 80 cold 150 miles earlier. I cat Scaled my rig loaded. I know I was under the rating. We had left a rest area 30 miles before the failure and in my walk around all the tires looked good. The MFG has the tire and is trying to figure out why it failed.
Very interesting, I am curious what they claim if it was a road issue or defect.
I too check my tires often, too often for the wife, but I'd rather know what is going on.
I really want to get an IR gun.
Oddly enough 285/70 and 285/75 for the 17's of the Toyo ATII's are only rated at 3195, not the 3750/3970 (respectively) of the AT.
