4 quads at most

 

I'm not the one giving the bad advice here, YOU are. You are telling someone that a good way to overload tires is to overinflate them. Are you serious? That's a band-aid solution at best and and a loss of vehicle control at worst. By your logic I could run a set of p rated tires on a superduty as long as they were overinflated. Maybe you should go out to your driveway and read the side of your tire you would find out that the tire is rated for MAXIMUM LOAD AND PRESSURE.

Here's a bit of sound advice Mboever. DO NOT overload or overinflate your tires.

 

Bob, with all due respect.. go look at your sidewalls. Mine says 44psi max load. My suggestion of 45psi is not "bad advice". I base my inputs and suggestions on science.. and to some degree my first hand experiences.


Now, I'll give you this much Bob.. there is a limit to common off the shelf tires. I would assume that this would be an obvious thing to everyone? Maybe not... Every physical thing has it's limit. In your analogy "run a set of p rated tires on a superduty " .... *yes the limit would be exceeded*. But we are not talking thoeretical in this post nor are we talking about an extreme and obvious mis-use of tire size & pressure.

The post here pertains to a slightly overloaded towing situation for a ranger with stock tires. Having first hand experience overloading tires on a **OEM basis** (2k lbs of armorment on stock Lincoln Town cars) I fully stand by my comments given the subject of this post.

It's just simple science in how a tire fails. Over inflating by 10psi will not harm the tire in any way except to prematurely wear the center of the tread. And technicly speaking my shooting from the hip comment of 45psi was in realality only 1psi over WHAT THE SIDEWALL ACTUALLY SAYS!

Regards, Rich

 

Rick, with all do respect, You don't know that Mboever has the same tires you do.

You have to talk theoretical when you do not know all the variables.

Again, you do not know all the variables. You are assuming all parts are oem. For a 7 year old truck that is a lot to assume. You are also assuming I have no first hand experience on the subject.

I know how a tire fails. I worked in the industry when the whole Explorer Firestone BS went down.

It all boils down to the fact that you nor I know what brand of tires he may be running on that truck. It says in his sig that he has a 2001. There is a pretty good chance that the original factory tires are long gone now. He could be riding on bargain basement Wal-mart specials with a max pressure of 35psi on the sidewall with a much lower load rating. Neither of us know his towing setup so giving advice without knowing the facts isn't so smart an idea.

What if he does have inferior tires on his rig? What if he only has a bumper hitch? What's the weight of the trailer? Too many unknown variables to give proper advice. Giving what you say your background is I figured you'd have thought of this before "shooting from the hip."

Oh and BTW Rick, the name is Rob.

 

LOL.. sorry "Rob".

You make valid points about not knowing all the facts of his tires.

Regards, Rich.... aka "Rick"

 

Maybe I should have been clearer in my original post. I apologize if you took it the wrong way Rich.

 

i pull a boat in the summer and a utility trailer sometimes

 

the previous owner used to pull a boat, but under my care it wasn't towing, but rather being towed...by an F150...out from being stuck in the snow



wow...I'm glad to see that forum discussion can still be civil nowadays!

 

To funny.