muddy12
Senior Member
Just as a heads up, your talk test method is totally pointless when it comes to actual tire wear. When you're in the tire industry and you end up going to multiple seminars this topic is brought up with every single manufacturer. You're putting chalk on the tire to try to see when it's getting the most contact but you're doing this at a speed of less than 1 mile an hour to miles an hour max that tire is nowhere near the same shape when you're travelling at your normal highway speeds or even a regular Road tires balloon out in the centre when you're driving just physics you can't change that fact you can talk your tires all you want but you're never going to account for the fact that the centre of the tire will always be balls do more at speed then the shoulders.
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You’re free to have your opinion, and I won’t bash it. All I can say is that I have been driving, and chalking tires for almost 30 years now, and have never had any tread wear issues that were due to improper inflation. Even when running 12.5” wide tires(where I would assume your “ballooning” theory would be very evident), I have yet to experience the center wearing down first.
Again, just my personal experience, YMMV.
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