patperry2766 wrote:
tire over/under inflation will affect the ride and handling of ANY vehicle on the road. It's not a phenomenon specific to trucks. You should have had him air the tires up BEFORE you signed the paperwork to cover your ass. Expensive lesson learned, but I suspect that you had a unrealistic expectation of how the truck was going to handle on the road without a load.
What's funny is I keep an eye on tire pressure for better gas mileage in my daily driver (Mazda Tribute). I can never "feel" the difference. But boy......in this truck.....it's like going over dirt roads.
YES...expensive lesson learned.
My friend who is professional truck drive told us to just load the puppy up (20-30 sandbags......I laughed and said who keeps that laying around the house or property??). And then resort to air bags (shocks).
It's still an absolutely beautiful truck and although we thought we crossed every "T", dotted every "I"....before the sale it doesn't help when buying a truck requires a different skill set of questions we never knew to ask.
