Will 17" tires be adequate??
The engine in our '09 F250 (V10) just exploded yesterday while away on a long road trip. By the grace of god, it died about 5 minutes from my BIL's house in Vernon BC after we traveled way up past Ja...
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Grit dog wrote:joshuajim wrote:
It's likely that the load rating on the tires exceeds the load rating on the rear axle. I wouldn't worry.
Unless they’re older tires, the best 17s available are 3195lb cap, so the rear axle on a HD pickup is rated higher by the sticker and way higher by AAM.
On a related note, does anyone know the history of why the industry quit making heavy load rated 17” tires?
Especially since that was the go to size for over a decade, recently. They still make heavy duty 16s and there’s way less 16s on he road or at least doing heavy work.
A ton of trucks come with E load rated 17s even to this day. What are you even talking about? What SRW pickup that came with 17s has a Rear GAWR higher than 6200 pounds anyway? And even then, what vehicle has enough payload to even get to the 6200 pounds without busting the GVWR first? I think you're worried about nothing.
