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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Francesca Knowles wrote: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.
Well, and part of the problem is that many of the choices in P metrics ( that would have adequate load capacity ) require rim widths that are wider than we typically have on trailers. So yes, "if" we can find a rim wide enough, with zero offset, then we could have some more choices in the P metric lineup.
I was actually being just a bit cheeky in my post above using that K-ho P-metric tire as an example, because truthfully, many trailers that are as light as my funfinder only have a single axle. So "if" mine did have a single axle, then using P metrics on it would be out of the question, as they would be overloaded.
I love my tandem axles...:C
