Upgrade Tires

PartyMarty wrote:
Is it your belief that the steel wheel will fail before the rubber tire will fail due to over-inflation ?

You said this no one else, but it is possible and you are cautioned about over pressuring the tire to seat a bead… many of rims have failed while being inflated…


Increasing the PSI is a major method used by the tire manufacturers to carry additional load .
We see this in LT and ST and commercial tires (100 psi plus ) .

While using tires and rims created to accept the load and pressure…


I think you are reading something into a chart that has nothing to do with the wheel capacity to carry additional psi Capriracer…

Reading the charts, not into them, and no one has shown that to be wrong…


Maintaining that nobody should inflate to 65 or 80 PSI robs all of the uninformed from making the rational choice to move to a load range D or load range E tire .

Again no one but you are making this claim… no one is being robbed of anything but suggesting blindly to inflate to 80 psi may rob the as you say uninformed from making the rational choice to move to a load range D or load range E tire …


The Maxxis Cheerleaders want to rob us of the rational choice .

Now how about explaining your real problem…



is it the Maxxis tire that has earned a good reputation that you dislike so much???

or is it the cheer leaders that have had success and show loyalty to a product they believe to be the best in a given category of tires??? not unlike Honda generator and Hensley hitch owners do…

if it’s the cheerleaders please define the term as you see it so it can be discussed intelligently…

if it’s the tire express your disagreements with your reasons and some backup information… again so it can be discussed intelligently…


CapriRacer has posted that the wheel manufacturers do not have PSI as a factor in rating their wheels . Only a weight rating .

Then CapriRacer with all due respect is wrong and I doubt he said exactly what you are saying, and if he did he should come forth with the evidence to support he professional opinion…

Lets be safe out there .

Please do and it starts with being informed and making smart choices…

Does your RV steel wheel have a stamp that says " Maximum 50 PSI " ?

My RV steel wheels have a black and yellow sticker rating the tire and wheel assembly as supplied to the trailer builder… it has a second sticker in the valley of the rim stating the maximum PSI for the rim is 70…