tire question
Newbie question so please be patient. Recently I purchased my first slide in camper, my Mrs wants to give it a go ? [I am a hotel type guy, but what he heck]We got an older (1988) northstar pop up for...
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Reddog1 wrote:
With all due respect, a load capacity of a given tire is what it is, the load capacity. All load range "E" tires do not have the same load capacity, in different sizes.
No diaper spect taken, I know what you are saying and it's true if you are shopping for a specific capacity and don't care about size. Most people that have P tires just need a real truck tire in the same size. Getting a LRE in the same size as LRD will provide a stronger tire (even if the load capacity is the same). If a P rated tires has about the right capacity then you know the same size LRE will have adequate capacity.
By your argument of ignoring load rating and just going off capacity then his current LRB P tires are adequate, and I think most of us agree they aren't.
P tires are put on 1/2 tons to sell the ride and save money, IMHO they have no place on any pickup that will be used as a pickup and plaid the OP for realizing their shortfalls.
