I’m pretty sure you’re referring to me so if you’re not, I apologize but if ya are, I never ran those BFG’s at 65 psi. The most I ran them up to was 55, them immediately down to 50 for awhile because that was the lesser of the 55 preferred with 50 being the minimum.
And it wasn’t a tire dealer who told me to do that; it was a representative from BFG.
But just to carry this on, are you really telling me it woulda been ok to run a LT 8-ply at 39psi?? Really? Did I really step on your toes that hard to recommend such an unsafe thing?Even I myself have enough common sense to know that wasn’t a smart thing to do.
At 39 they were actually fairly smooth but they felt really spongy. They still right away were not running as smooth as the GoodYears that I had just taken off but, not bad. Over the next couple of months when we started to transition outta late winter to spring and early summer was when they were really feeling like sponges once the weather warmed up. Even under fairly somewhat hard braking, you could almost hear a faint howling of the front tires. Steering and hard cornering felt a lot looser as well. Oh, and tire pressures climbed significantly from 39 cold to 45, 46 pounds so I know they were running just a little warm, too.
Then I decided to call up BFG- 50 was just too damn much for a practically empty truck but long story short, before I decided to get rid of the damn things for some much better tires, 47 in the front and about 43,44 in the back was what felt like the best compromise I was gonna find between a somewhat smooth ride and decent handling, cornering, braking and accelerating.
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