LT tires on TT
I was telling a buddy of mine how I upgraded my TT tires from ST's to LT's (Michelin RIBS) and he would like to upgrade to LT's also. He asked if he could go to any LT tire as long as they had the cor...
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JJBIRISH wrote:-
Actually in that situation I might use the P rated over a LT tire…
No kidding- especially given that according to some studies, P-tires are three times safer than LT's- a little known factoid in some crowds.
Here quoting from this NTSB page:
NTSB wrote:
The rate of blowout-caused crashes for light trucks (0.99 percent) is more than three times the rate of those crashes for passenger cars (0.31 percent).
Blowouts cause a much higher proportion of rollover crashes (4.81) than non-rollover crashes (0.28), and more than three times the rate in light trucks (6.88 percent) than in passenger cars (1.87 percent).
Too bad P-tires are so flabby...but there might be some out there that would do the trick.
