Rental Yards here now require 3/4 ton truck or better when towing.

[Dmace]

Omg, shut up already

The point of this thread is rental yards not allowing 1/2 ton trucks to tow anything in their yard. Mostly due to people not understanding the ratings of their own truck. The Ford sticker proves why that rule has been adopted. 11,300 lb tow capacity on P rated tires may be safe but it's pushing it. Selling someone a "Heavy Duty" package with P rated tires at 35 psi is just dumb. Also many trucks come with hitches not rated high enough for their own tow capacity.

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[RobertN]

Did you get an addendum with the owner manual?

My '01 Ram2500 CTD shows the stock 245 rating on the door; my truck came with 265 and use a different pressure than the door sticker. The addendum in the manual lists a loaded tire tire pressure, and a no-load tire pressure.



I back the pressure down unless hauling/loaded. Other wise ride is worse, and rear tires wear center of tread.

Difference is
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[aczlan]

Difference is Dodge doesn't market my truck as "Heavy Duty" or give it ridiculous payload ratings that might max out it's components.
Funny your "HD" package truck has a weaker front axle (by 300 lbs) than my 9 year old "regular" truck and the rear axle is only rated 150lbs more. The Dodge/GM trucks may look weaker on paper compared to an overrated Ford but that's because they under rate their trucks.
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Hmmm, your door sticker lists 35 PSI too... Funny thing about that.

Aaron Z

 

[Dmace]

Hmmm, your door sticker lists 35 PSI too... Funny thing about that.
Aaron Z

Again, my truck wasn't marketed as "Heavy Duty".

Did you get an addendum with the owner manual?

Yup, there's a whole brochure just on tire pressures.

 

[jejeosborne]

Difference is Dodge doesn't market my truck as "Heavy Duty" or give it ridiculous payload ratings that might max out it's components.
Funny your "HD" package truck has a weaker front axle (by 300 lbs) than my 9 year old "regular" truck and the rear axle is only rated 150lbs more. The Dodge/GM trucks may look weaker on paper compared to an overrated Ford but that's because they under rate their trucks.
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My truck doesn't have the HD package. Where did you get that false information. If so, it would have come with 500lbs more payload, LT tires and heavier axles.

Your claims here are incorrect. Completely incorrect.

 

[jejeosborne]

OOH boy -I've gone and done it now, I was not trying to start a Ford, Chevy war here.
But it just seems odd that ANY truck with a high tow rating, and fairly high payload would actually put a P rated tire on a vehicle that potentially could be used for (example) to say move a family on a long trip through the desert heat, fully loaded with a loaded trailer, those sidewalls are going to get hot (4 ply rated?) especially if run at the sticker specified 35 psi. It would make me somewhat nervous after running close to 70mph for hours in the heat, then descending a mountain grade- with the brakes on, wheels begin to get hot sidewalls will be under a lot of stress flexing keeping the speed down and loaded to max rating this just sounds like a recipe for an accident..

Any thread that dmace enters will eventually end this way unfortunately.

 

[jejeosborne]

The point of this thread is rental yards not allowing 1/2 ton trucks to tow anything in their yard. Mostly due to people not understanding the ratings of their own truck. The Ford sticker proves why that rule has been adopted. 11,300 lb tow capacity on P rated tires may be safe but it's pushing it. Selling someone a "Heavy Duty" package with P rated tires at 35 psi is just dumb. Also many trucks come with hitches not rated high enough for their own tow capacity.

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Again, you are wrong. Not HD package. Please retract your false statements.

 

[sd455dan]

Any thread that dmace enters will eventually end this way unfortunately.

Well this is certainly interesting. After I posted the 80 psi for load range E tires thought I should actually check my own truck , and low and behold Dodge does not list 80 psi anywhere that I have looked
also when you add the axle ratings together it comes out to a totally different # than the GVWR = 9900lbs. axles added together gives 11350 lbs. tire max added together gives 12780lbs. I can see how someone would have a hard time knowing exactly what they can load in the truck/ haul....and how a person working in a rental yard could get confused also

 

[TomSeller]

Guys, everyone n here has good truck.. "Better" is in the eye if the beholder.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Difference is Dodge doesn't market my truck as "Heavy Duty" or give it ridiculous payload ratings that might max out it's components.
Funny your "HD" package truck has a weaker front axle (by 300 lbs) than my 9 year old "regular" truck and the rear axle is only rated 150lbs more. The Dodge/GM trucks may look weaker on paper compared to an overrated Ford but that's because they under rate their trucks.
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6650# GVWR is pathetic. 2 men and a full tank and you are illegal with 700# of tongue weight.

Chris