Truck tires

[Steve Ekstrand]

The new truck has Michelin LTX A/S 265-70-17 tires on it. They are rated at 3200lbs at 80psi.

Any opinions on these tires? Michelin used to be good. But now who knows! I haven't seen many good OEM tires on Dodges.

That gives me a rear axle load cap of 6400. Should be okay with an anticipated tongue weight of under 2300lbs.

The new truck has tire pressure monitoring. And a hi/lo switch for runnning unloaded pressures versus max load.

[Max Hayter]

Pics of truck!

[John Coffey]

Great tires. Got 65,000 miles out of the set on my F350. They are a street truck tire and handle well, if you can use that term with a one ton truck. When you get tired of your stock shocks, the Bilstien HDs are a good upgrade.

[KJ Christopher]

The new truck has Michelin LTX A/S 265-70-17 tires on it. They are rated at 3200lbs at 80psi.

Any opinions on these tires? Michelin used to be good. But now who knows! I haven't seen many good OEM tires on Dodges.

That gives me a rear axle load cap of 6400. Should be okay with an anticipated tongue weight of under 2300lbs.

The new truck has tire pressure monitoring. And a hi/lo switch for runnning unloaded pressures versus max load.

SRW?

[Curt Luther]

If you don't do an 8" lift and put on 40" super swampers, you're just ghey...

[Steve Ekstrand]

SRW is Single Rear Wheel.

I know they tow better, but I couldn't deal with the 16" wider width of the Dually. I'm a city boy.

Damn, I love my new truck. I need to stop driving it, because we can't really afford to blow too far through my 800 gallon a year allotment.

Nice to know from John that the tires are decent. The OEM Goodyears on the Dakota, Durango, and Intrepid were all verging on unsafe without any loads.

[Bob Beamesderfer]

SRW is Single Rear Wheel.

I know they tow better, but I couldn't deal with the 16" wider width of the Dually. I'm a city boy.

Damn, I love my new truck. I need to stop driving it, because we can't really afford to blow too far through my 800 gallon a year allotment.

Nice to know from John that the tires are decent. The OEM Goodyears on the Dakota, Durango, and Intrepid were all verging on unsafe without any loads.

Save that card for the tow to Nationals.

[Pat McBride]

As John said good for 65-75000 just put some on my truck my problem is a set a year

[Steve Ekstrand]

Gesh Pat.

That is an INSANE amount of miles for anybody but a real trucker.

[Thomas Smith]

That gives me a rear axle load cap of 6400. Should be okay with an anticipated tongue weight of under 2300lbs.

Doesn't the truck weigh something like 7000 pounds unloaded? I don't know what the weight distribution is but I'd bet truck + 5th wheel gets you up to well over 5000 pounds on the rear axle.

[Steve Ekstrand]

Rear curb weight is listed as 2833.

So----

2833 Truck
2300 Tongue
200 Hitch and bed cover
300 Rear addtion of passengers and cargo? I'm closer to the front axle than the rear?

5633lbs 6200lbs rating 6390lbs tires @ 80lbs psi

I'd like to have 1,000's of pounds of extra capacity. But this is my daily driver too and I'm not getting a Freightliner!

[Earl Merz]

But this is my daily driver too and I'm not getting a Freightliner!

Currently, I wouldn't either. They no longer offer the Cummins as an option. MB(Detroit) or Cat. Cat adds too much weight, 5-600 lb difference between the MBE4000 and the Cat engine. And the DBW/Emission tune of the MBE/DD just sucks. Nothing like decending a hill on full turbo brake and get on the throttle to power up the next grade only to hear the turbo de-spool, pause, then the engine start to pick up. Same thing when downshifting when comming to a stop.... NEVER AGAIN will I buy a DD powered truck.

[David Avard]

And with either the Megacab or Quadcab, the DRW doesn't appear to get you anything in load carrying capacity; just more weight. 10100-lb SRW vs 10500 DRW. The 12000 lbs (actually, 11.5k 2wd, 12.2k 4wd) is only with the regular cab.