New Cooper tires behavior
I just installed 6 new Cooper tires on my Sterling 4500. These are the 19.5s. I was replacing my old Dynatracs. The Dynatracs only had about 12K miles, but were 8 years old. I only use the truck f...
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jimh425 wrote:
Except 19.5s aren’t normal tires with normal beads. The tires will come off the bead way before you have the pressure low enough unloaded to be “correct” for a empty bed truck. So, using a chart for the minimum is fine as long as you aren’t worried about coming off the bead.
You don’t have to believe us though buy a set of 19.5s, go to a beach, and air down. ;) The beach isn’t really required, but that’s when people usually find out that they can’t air their 19.5s down. :D
This is what tire manufacturers website will tell you.
Other tires have min inflation as well, although I watch "Matt's recovery" on youtube and he drops the pressure to 5 psi for blow sand on his Jeep. Than he pulled the tire out of the rim on couple of occasions.
