Lowering TV tire pressures
For those of you with diesel HD trucks that lower their tire pressures when not towing, what do you set them to? My Ram calls for 60psi front and 80 in the rear. As most know, this gives a pretty h...
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Cummins12V98 wrote:
" If you tailor your pressures for your actual load, you are running your tires at their maximum because that is what those tables mean. They are not recommended pressures, they are the maximum load the tire can handle at that pressure."
If you contact GY Tech they will tell you it's fine to use those numbers but to also add 5psi to what the chart dictates.
Again I agree with you to a point. I keep my tires at max. pressure at all times. I'm not going to through the trouble of airing down.
But I do believe max. pressure give me maximum performance. Whenn Im going down I-81 in PA or I 95 through SC. I want a solid tire that can withstand the impact of the potholes and moon craters on these roads.
Before upgrading to a better tire I suffered blowouts on the RV due to these rugged roads.
The charts work in an ideal world,unfortunately I have yet to find that ideal world.
