Maria Langer | 📝💎🌵🛥️Tire experts? The boat has six of these #tires on it. They have a total of 3000 miles on them, mostly with the boat on board. They are labeled for max psi 80lbs and I just checked them all and found that they are all at 65lbs. I was going to bring them up to 70lbs but now I'm wondering if I should. After all, either they all lose pressure at the same rate (which is doubtful) or Discount Tire, where I had them installed while the boat was on the #trailer, set them to 65lbs for a reason. Opinions?
Peter Henry@mlanger You would expect to get 30,000 miles from a tire. A boat trailer is unlikely to clock that distance. Setting the pressure a little lower is likely to wear the tires a little more but the trailer will "bounce" less - just as safe at car+trailer speeds and a better ride.
@thanetric Good to know! This particular boat trailer never goes fewer than 200 miles on a trip. Its longest trip was 2000 miles and there's a pretty good chance I'll be doing that again in October.