afidel wrote:
Who follows the door sticker for tire inflation, especially for non-OEM tires? I put in the max cold PSI indicated on the sidewall.
OP HAS "E" load rated tires.
What do you not understand about that?
E load rated tires have a side wall pressure of 80 PSI which is most likely well above the rim pressure rating.
Those tires have a load rating well over 3000 lbs at the sidewall pressure of 80 PSI.
Those tires BELONG on a F250/350, not on a F150.
That combo is not going to work well at full sidewall pressure and most likely will become a lot more unhinged.
For some odd reason folks seem to believe moving to the heaviest LT tires are the fix to everything, it is not, this is the case where doing so can and will make things far worse.
You cannot ever make a 1/2 truck into a 3/4 or 1 ton truck by simply switching tires. It takes a whole bunch of OTHER parts and even then in the end you STILL have a truck that legally is a 1/2 ton truck.
You REALLY should stick to the MANUFACTURERS OEM tire size and style choices.. If you want to move from P to LT tires, choose wisely and don't over choose, a "C" load rating would have well exceeded a 1/2 ton capability by around 1,000 lbs on the axle and it would have done that with 45 PSI.. The E load rated will most likely need around 60-65 PSI to be near the "C" load rating..
Should be illegal for tire shops to sell E load rated LT tires to 1/2 truck owners.
Heavier tire is not "always" better.
All I can say is another "amateur day" rookie mistake :E ..