Tire Info
Need some help Please. Want to put new tires on my 25' kz trailer. Some stores say Radial, While some say Bias tires for trailers. The one I took off were only 2-ply tires. and thinking would like 7...
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You are not going to find 7-ply tires, bias or radial ply, in sizes for your trailer.
Most radial tires will have 1 or 2 radial plies, and two plies in the belt under the tread. Three at the most. Bias ply tires will usually have two plies, and usually no belt.
Ply counts are an obselete way to describe tire capacity, from the days of cooton cord tires when a stronger tire needed 4,6,8,12 plies of cotton cord. Synthetic cord materials put an end to that.
A numerical "ply rating" then followed in attempt to relate carrying capacity to something familiar from the past. Your will still see the terminology used, unofficially, but the replacement descriptor today is Load Range. Load Range C approximates to "4 ply rating", D to "6 ply rating" roughly, but both classes will be constructed today with just two plies of cord in the tire body.
Tires also now carry yet another rating, load capacity, which puts together the factors of size (bigger tires carry more) and design (Load Range) or the obselete Ply Rating. These are numeric, numbers like 92, 96, 98, 102, 112, 118 and so on.
Most radial tires will have 1 or 2 radial plies, and two plies in the belt under the tread. Three at the most. Bias ply tires will usually have two plies, and usually no belt.
Ply counts are an obselete way to describe tire capacity, from the days of cooton cord tires when a stronger tire needed 4,6,8,12 plies of cotton cord. Synthetic cord materials put an end to that.
A numerical "ply rating" then followed in attempt to relate carrying capacity to something familiar from the past. Your will still see the terminology used, unofficially, but the replacement descriptor today is Load Range. Load Range C approximates to "4 ply rating", D to "6 ply rating" roughly, but both classes will be constructed today with just two plies of cord in the tire body.
Tires also now carry yet another rating, load capacity, which puts together the factors of size (bigger tires carry more) and design (Load Range) or the obselete Ply Rating. These are numeric, numbers like 92, 96, 98, 102, 112, 118 and so on.
