tires overloaded?
recently bought a new TC and fully loaded, ready for travel, weighed it at a CAT scale. left me just a few #'s under what the tires are rated for. It rides good, no sway, no sag but being so close to...
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JimK-NY wrote:
The Ford/Firestone "thing" was not an issue of load ratings. There were defects in the manufacturing. Most of the issue involved manufacturing in Venezuela where failure rates were 1000x the failure rate for Dayton manufacturing.
Don't you mean Decatur? (Illinois). I was talking about what happened around August of 2000, and nothing involved Venezuela.
Here's my analysis: Barry's Tire Tech: The Ford / Firestone Controversy
