Tires - Load Range D vs E
My trailer uses 225/75R15 load range D tires. Checked my local tire stores and all of them only had load range E tires in stock. One of the guys tried to push me into getting load range E because "the...
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mike-s wrote:
Now load it up with Mr. Ed, and tow at full pressure for both LRC and LRD. Then ask him how he liked the ride with each. :)
As you go up, in both LR and pressure, the ride will get rougher. That's not necessarily a problem, but I can definitely tell that stuff in the trailer bounces around more with the stiffer tires.
My real world experience with my funfinder, when I went from factory LR C, ST tires to LR D commercial LT tires was that nothing changed as far as stuff getting tossed about inside.
Regarding whether the horse feels anything different riding on LR E, I have no way of quantifying that with numbers. All I can offer is my real world experience, and that is, after many years of hauling our show horses all around the midwest and beyond, I have never, ever had a horse end up being injured or lame either to or from a show, as a result of hauling.
Grand daughter and I will haul one of the horses 400 miles next tuesday. When we arrive mid day, we'll unload and let him settle in a stall for four or five hours, then he will go to the warmup arena for practice. Same as always. Hauled on LR E tires.
It's very common in the horse trailer world on larger gooseneck trailers to use LR G tires, like the GoodYear G614, at 110psi. So make of that whatever the reader would care to.
