New user, TC Tire questions
I'm new to the forums and eagerly awaiting delivery of my Arctic Fox 811 (my first TC). I have extensively read the forums here researching this purchase and have settled on the Arctic Fox mated to a...
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billtex wrote:skimopow wrote:
B.) Nitto Ridge Grappler 295/70/18 E 129
This tire has an E load rating but a 129 (4080#) load index
This and call it a day.
Most Folks that go 19.5 end up with a dually soon after anyway. If you really want to upgrade just go straight to a dually.
BTW; a “skinny” tire is better in snow than a wide tire. Get snowflake rated. Which I believe those Nitto’s are, and don’t go any wider than you need to.
Re: narrow tires in the snow, my experience has been narrower tires are superior in ice and cold dry packed snow but in most of the snow road conditions we get here I prefer wider tires. It is almost always loose snow here, lots of wet packed snow, and slush. That said the difference between these two tires in snow (295 vs 305) is probably negligible.
I was leaning toward choosing a wider, shorter tire to achieve the higher load rating with the line of reasoning that they would be a stiffer tire and handle the camper better. Not sure if this is true or not but seemed to make sense to me. They also match my OEM tire size better (OEM:33.4" 305/65/18:33.58" 295/70/18:34.29").
