pickup truck size

[big bubba]

22 inch tires on a pickup is just for looks. You can't even drive down a rough road with those low profile tires without trashing the wheels.

ditto, a mall cruiser

 

[ArlyA]

Dogs and groceries go behind the seat. Tools go in the box. Works and rides great plus it gets good fuel mileage to boot. Don't really care what you call it, we still love it. Oh and its easy to drive round town.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^^ That looks like a good setup for what you do, and the "Ranger Review" thread which you are operating indicates the same.


Long ago I belonged to another site with lot of people who felt the need to dictate what others should drive, among other things. "Most people don't need 4WDs"... "you shouldn't live so far from the city"... you don't need a (boat, tractor, snowmobile, chainsaw,..."


Although their reasons were different, the need of some people here to dictate what others should drive are laughable.

 

[4570Man]

22 inch tires on a pickup is just for looks. You can't even drive down a rough road with those low profile tires without trashing the wheels.

I didn’t say put them on pickup. I didn’t say 22 inch either.

 

[LouNY]

A truck has 22.5 tires. Anything else is a soccer mom truck.

That must be one of them there new newfangled junk trucks, once they went away from 9 or 10 hundred 20's what good are they!!!!!!!!!!
My 6 1/2 foot bed Crew Cab RAM Laramie is a nice fancy truck that can still get dirty in a field, that's what the car wash is for.
It did take some searching to find one with the 18" wheels as I have no use for 20 or 22 inch wheels on a pickup,
I'd like to be able to still run them new fangled radial 235/85R16's on my pickups, they did work a bit better then the 7.50-16's.

 

[4570Man]

That must be one of them there new newfangled junk trucks, once they went away from 9 or 10 hundred 20's what good are they!!!!!!!!!!
My 6 1/2 foot bed Crew Cab RAM Laramie is a nice fancy truck that can still get dirty in a field, that's what the car wash is for.
It did take some searching to find one with the 18" wheels as I have no use for 20 or 22 inch wheels on a pickup,
I'd like to be able to still run them new fangled radial 235/85R16's on my pickups, they did work a bit better then the 7.50-16's.

I didn’t say put 22 inch tires on a pickup. That’s stupid.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I didn’t say put 22 inch tires on a pickup. That’s stupid.

I think... the F150 Limited has 22 inch wheels; my Platinum has 20's. I don't understand why that is a problem. Am I missing something?

 

[3930dave]

I didn’t say put them on pickup. I didn’t say 22 inch either.

I'll translate.....

You're talking about medium-duty trucks - Correct ?

Rgds, D.

 

[Gee Ray]

Ok the joke is a good one but it is getting old. 22.5 tires are for a semi or also know as Class 8 trucks.

 

[4570Man]

I'll translate.....

You're talking about medium-duty trucks - Correct ?

Rgds, D.

Yes. All this talk about 5.5 feet beds being useless. If you can’t park a skid steer in the bed it’s useless.

 

[3930dave]

I think... the F150 Limited has 22 inch wheels; my Platinum has 20's. I don't understand why that is a problem. Am I missing something?

Depends how a truck is used....

To make a truck (p/u) handle today, you'll see something like 40 series tires from the factory. Better for skidpads, and cloverleafs.

So if somebody used a p/u only lightly loaded, on pavement, 40 series may not be a problem.

Those of us who came up using farm trucks often prefer a taller tire in a still-work truck. Takes impacts better, even on road, as there is more sidewall to flex, and supply some suspension compliance - so old school steel rims with a 70+ series tire had to really get beaten on to get damaged.

For that ^ characteristic, you give up some handling in the curves.

Different strokes for different folks...... I want a tall-sidewall tire on my trucks for old school reasons..... if I want to carve curves, I take out my Kawasaki street bike.

Anybody budget-constrained (like me) doesn't want to replace factory 22 tires on pickups - pretty spendy. Not an issue if you have a Don't Care budget, or just trade in new trucks fast.

My 2 cents..... FWIW.

Rgds, D.

 

[Jstpssng]

Yes. All this talk about 5.5 feet beds being useless. If you can’t park a skid steer in the bed it’s useless. View attachment 713297

Come with me for a day, drive the roads and goat paths that I drive. You won’t be long ditching that oversized boat for something more practical.

 

[4570Man]

Come with me for a day, drive the roads and goat paths that I drive. You won’t be long ditching that oversized boat for something more practical.

That’s not a one vehicle truck. I need the capacity it offers but it’s not a vehicle you’re going to cruise around in. I’m not driving that down a goat path and you’re not putting a skid steer in the bed or stumps or logs or much of anything else.

 

[3930dave]

Yes. All this talk about 5.5 feet beds being useless. If you can’t park a skid steer in the bed it’s useless. View attachment 713297

The skid-steer is so you can pick up even more groceries @ Costco - right ?

Rgds, D.

 

[4570Man]

The skid-steer is so you can pick up even more groceries @ Costco - right ?

Rgds, D.

Yes it really beats loading by hand.

 

[BravoXray]

A truck has 22.5 tires. Anything else is a soccer mom truck.

A REAL truck has 24.5 tires.

 

[Grumpycat]

A truck has 22.5 tires. Anything else is a soccer mom truck.

Anything with carpet is an SUV, not a truck.

 

[Grumpycat]

A truck has 22.5 tires. Anything else is a soccer mom truck.

That must be one of them there new newfangled junk trucks, once they went away from 9 or 10 hundred 20's what good are they!!!!!!!!!!

That I know, semi trucks with newfangled tubeless tires were 22.5 back in 1977. Tube tires were whole-inch such as 19" (proprietary U-Haul) or 20". Tubeless were 0.5" sized such as 19.5, 22.5, to keep idiots from mounting a tubeless tire on a tube rim.

 

[Jstpssng]

Tubeless were 0.5" sized such as 19.5, 22.5, to keep idiots from mounting a tubeless tire on a tube rim.

Years ago I worked with two brothers, one of them walked with a limp after his brother crashed a pickup they were traveling in. The driver said “I don’t know what happened, all of a sudden it just veered off the road.”
In a later conversation he told about how somebody had given him a pair of tube-type tires, but he didn’t have tubes so he mounted them without and they held air, so he ran them.

I didnt bother to point out to him that was most likely why his truck left the road.

 

[goeduck]

A truck has 22.5 tires. Anything else is a soccer mom truck.

22.5 grocery getter