Proper tire inflation
Hello, Can someone chime in on this? The inside of my truck driver door has a sticker that says to inflate the front tires to 55 psi and back tires to 80 psi. That makes sense to me since the we...
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BurbMan wrote:Lynnsr wrote:
How quickly we forget the Firestone and Ford tire controversy.
Actually Ford spec'd a tire inflation in line with the GVWR of the truck as indicated on the door sticker. The tires were perfectly safe at that psi if the Explorer wasn't overloaded.
Investigations found that all of the Explorers involved in blowout incidents were loaded way beyond stated capacity. Folks figured if it fits inside, it's OK. That resulted in tires being overloaded because the truck was overloaded, not because they were underinflated.
The main issue here was not Ford spec'ing a tire psi that was too low, it was Ford spec'ing a GVWR that folks didn't realize was so low, and led to folks overloaded their vehicles without realizing it.
Hey BerbMan
I think we agree 100%.
However, you're using "if" in a Truck Camper World, where I can tell from the blogs that everyone is running well below GVWR. :W
Lynnsr
