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Originally Posted By: bullwinkle
I agree-it is unnecessary, but how much unsprung weight are we talking-for example, going from a Geolandar 10 ply to a P-metric in a 245/75R16 is 14 pounds a tire, 56 pounds total? If the OP was looking to buy them & didn't have them already, it would be a different story. I haven't been to Detroit in a while, but if the roads up there are anything like they are in the City of Cincinnati (I-75 is a construction moonscape, 3/4 of the city streets are beat senseless at the START of winter), I would live with the 10 plys.
I drive a 6,200lb SUV (probably weighs more than the OP's truck) with P-Metric LTX's on it and we've never had a blow out or even a puncture on this thing. It routinely goes down back roads, hunting trails, has been through a pile of farmers fields and the roads here aren't anything to write home about either, particularly in rural areas.
The manufacturer spec'd a P-Metric tire. A quality P-Metric is all the truck needs. I'd be more concerned with choosing a quality tire than the number of plies it has IMHO.
I agree-it is unnecessary, but how much unsprung weight are we talking-for example, going from a Geolandar 10 ply to a P-metric in a 245/75R16 is 14 pounds a tire, 56 pounds total? If the OP was looking to buy them & didn't have them already, it would be a different story. I haven't been to Detroit in a while, but if the roads up there are anything like they are in the City of Cincinnati (I-75 is a construction moonscape, 3/4 of the city streets are beat senseless at the START of winter), I would live with the 10 plys.
I drive a 6,200lb SUV (probably weighs more than the OP's truck) with P-Metric LTX's on it and we've never had a blow out or even a puncture on this thing. It routinely goes down back roads, hunting trails, has been through a pile of farmers fields and the roads here aren't anything to write home about either, particularly in rural areas.
The manufacturer spec'd a P-Metric tire. A quality P-Metric is all the truck needs. I'd be more concerned with choosing a quality tire than the number of plies it has IMHO.