kedanie wrote:
FastEagle wrote:
The regulations for ST tires differ from car and truck tires. The car and truck tires MUST have load capacity reserves. That is a mandated DOT requirement. There is no such reserve requirement for ST tires.
FastEagle
Calvin, it looks like you are finally coming clean on this one. After all these years of denials you are admitting that LT tires carry a reserve capacity and ST tires don't!!!!!
This revelation would explain a whole bunch of tire failures.
Keith
All tire load capacities can be manipulated up and down with air pressure. When a tire has some load capacity reserves above the recommended tire pressure it's called "reserve load capacity".
The DOT requires our automotive vehicles to only use 94% of a tire's load capacity for recommended tire pressures when set at regulatory standards.
FastEagle
