Recommend Tire Pressure
Please recommend a tire pressure for my 5th wheel, tandem axle. Tire size is 235-80R-16 , Rating is E , Max pressure is 80 PSI. By actual scale weighing, the four trailer tires share a load of 8180 ...
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Vulcan Rider wrote:fla-gypsy wrote:
Trailer tires should be ran at max pressure listed on sidewell to generate greatest reserve capacity with few exceptions. Nothing else makes much sense
What makes the most sense is to find out what the manufacturer recommends.
Is that not really available for every rig ever make.....REALLY ??
IMO what makes the most cents/sense is to listen to hundreds of experienced trailer owners who have hundreds of thousands of miles and several different trailers or simply look in on tireman9 tire blog or CapriRacer (Barry Smith on allexperts.com) and see what real tire engineers/experts have to say on the subject of tire pressure for a trailer.
