SRW vs DRW driving in sand.
I camped at Pismo a couple of week ago with my SRW Ram towing a 21' TH. I aired all tires down to 20 psi and had no problems. I noticed numerous DRW also pulling trailers seemed to be doing ok. I ...
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SoCalDesertRider wrote:
It depends on the width of tires and the air pressure. Some SRW trucks have tires the same width as DRW trucks. Other SRW trucks have wider tires.
Tire width has less to do with it than you might think. Sure an inch or two extra width helps, but airing down makes the contact patch much LONGER, not wider.
Think of how a tire looks when it's flat, not much wider, but huge flat contact patch.
I've driven my previous F350 DRW on the sand in multiple states, and aired down, the E rated Toyo MT's did OK. Not as good as my SRW truck, but still never got stuck. The biggest problem seems to be the wider rear track as stated above, it just doesn't follow the compacted front track well.
The worst are the dually rigs running low profile tires or the F and up rated commercial tires that can't be aired down. I haven't had my F450 on the sand YET, but it's coming up the last week of August.
With G rated 245' 75' 19.5's that can't be aired down below 80 psi, I'll be sticking to the hard packed sand for sure.
