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adamis
Aug 23, 2019Nomad II
I'll start my reply with it's your money so you do you but I've never understood the idea of buying tires for "looks". Performance yes, safety yes, capacity yes, but "looks" means less mpg and for something that already gets poor mpg, you gotta have a fat checkbook to not care about fueling that rig.
Also, 35" tires are huge! You are putting your center of gravity with 4000lbs of payload unnecessarily high to the point where I'm not certain it is safe. I saw a Bigfoot Camper fly by me once on I5 on a lifted (6" at least) 4x4 truck with probably 35" tires and the whole thing was precariously leaning to one side. The stock Bigfoot steps I doubt would have touched the ground and he probably carried a ladder around to make it work.
Just because all of the pieces fit together, doesn't mean that they will work well together. You might be safe in 99.9% of road conditions but what happens when a car swerves the wrong direction and you are forced to make an emergency lane change at 70mph?
Also, 35" tires are huge! You are putting your center of gravity with 4000lbs of payload unnecessarily high to the point where I'm not certain it is safe. I saw a Bigfoot Camper fly by me once on I5 on a lifted (6" at least) 4x4 truck with probably 35" tires and the whole thing was precariously leaning to one side. The stock Bigfoot steps I doubt would have touched the ground and he probably carried a ladder around to make it work.
Just because all of the pieces fit together, doesn't mean that they will work well together. You might be safe in 99.9% of road conditions but what happens when a car swerves the wrong direction and you are forced to make an emergency lane change at 70mph?
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