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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Oh boy......
Cummins does not IMHO get 100k miles from tire because he JUST follows inflation tables. Does it help. Sure it does!
What gets him those miles, is he appears to do mostly highway miles. THAT is the major key.
If he did City miles like I do, getting 60k miles is a treat! As each time I stop and start, turn a corner, my tires are skidding, spinning etc. Yeah my butt can not tell, the skidding etc is microscopic, but it is happening.
Does it help to follow the charts? You bet it does! It's not over 50% of what miles you will get. Probably less than 30-40%.
Marty
Cummins does not IMHO get 100k miles from tire because he JUST follows inflation tables. Does it help. Sure it does!
What gets him those miles, is he appears to do mostly highway miles. THAT is the major key.
If he did City miles like I do, getting 60k miles is a treat! As each time I stop and start, turn a corner, my tires are skidding, spinning etc. Yeah my butt can not tell, the skidding etc is microscopic, but it is happening.
Does it help to follow the charts? You bet it does! It's not over 50% of what miles you will get. Probably less than 30-40%.
Marty
