TIRES?????
Here we go again. as I posted here before I was having my dealer repack my wheels when they discovered a bad tire. Carlyle tires he told me they were the worst tire I could have on a trailer. Today ...
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Me Again wrote:
RVUSA my calculator has 330 lbs divided by 2500 at 13.2 percent excess capacity, which is better than most. That assumes a fully loaded trailer with a light 19 percent pin weight in my earlier example.
Tires are 2830 not 3850??? I assume you bought or had wheels that were rated to 80 inflation for E rated tires.
Chris
I have 15" tires on my 5th, 225/75R15. They have a load rating of 2830.
I know you know how to do this, I am just showing how I get my numbers.
2830 * 4 = 11320 load capacity.
GVWR of 12340, minus your original 20% pin weight gives 9872 load weight on the tires (not considering load balance, one axle is heavier on mine, it's nose high with a less than 20% hitch weight).
So each tire is assumed to see 2468 pounds.
2830 - 2468 = 362 pounds of reserve capacity for each tire.
2830 / 362 is 12.7% so I have just over 10% reserve capacity.
I have never weighed it even though it rides nose high as the tires never get hot. The fronts are barely warm to the touch and the rears are a tad warmer. I don't carry much water but I do carry a huge amount of tools and what nots, the bay is stuffed... correction was stuffed. I'm still scratching my head as to how I got all of this stuff that has no place to go in the 38 foot rv packed into a 31 foot 5th. Baffling and a bit irritating as I am a bonifide pack rat and really don't wanna dump any of it. I might need it some day you know. LOL
