LT tires on your TT? Let the fight begin
The long Honeymoon just released a blog entry advocating using LT tires not ST. I have to admit I don't even know what brand of tires my TT has on it. They have been problem free. But I have had plent...
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Huntindog wrote:CapriRacer wrote:This people tryied increasing the size and load ranges with STs before throwing in the towel and stepping up to LTs
More fuel for the fire:
1) People who replaced their ST tires with LT tires increased the effective load carrying capacity .... because:
2) The load carrying capacity of ST tires is calculated differently than LT tires. The result is that ST tires are rated to carry about 20% more load, but at a lower speed.
What a waste of money on all those STs I owned
Maybe it's because our experience is that the ST's are fine. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, between myself and a few friends I've traveled with we have put over 300K miles on ST tires with NO blowouts and a total of two nail punctures we caught with the TPMS before the tire went down. That's about the same rate of nail punctures I've had on my tow vehicles.
So I see now reason to go out and get a set of 16" rims for LT tires since there are NO 15" LT tires that have an adequate load capacity for my trailer while the LRE ST tires have a reasonable extra load margin.
