BenK wrote:
To the OP...careful shopping for the same sized tire with the highest load rating. As some stores will only show you what they sell. Even though another brand might have a higher rating.
Do your research and make sure your wheels are also rated for MORE than the tire’s rating (personal preference), as the tire has more compliance than metal wheel will have.
I have yet to see a meaningful difference in apples to apples tire size and classification. What you wrote is likely very confusing to the OP who asked the question. Unless I'm missing something, the vast majority of tires in a particular size and classification are load rated exactly the same.
Sure you can get a P or XL tire in some of the same sizes as a LT tire and they will have vastly different load ratings, but you're not generally going to find brand "X", and brand "Y" of the same size and tire class to have a different rating.
Your last statement is misleading IMO as well. Sure its good advice to generally make sure the wheels are rated for what they're carrying, as well as the tires, but what you said appears to promote making the tires the weak link in the assembly? Seems a bit backwards to me.
BUT, none of this would be confusing if the OP did a little research on tires. They would presumably understand the conventions relatively easily.
