Problems with slam tires ??

[gumbo]

Has anyone ever experienced any problems with slam tires up front ?
I had a bit of burning rubber smell on the way back from the beach yesterday & it looks like the N/S tire has been a couple of psi under inflated and been reeking a bit if black around rubber around the rim.

Now I'm totally para and considering putting bigger tires on the front before my 700 mile round trip to camper jam

 

[Tofufi]

Chances are you were overloading the front tyres anyway.

What's the load rating on yours?

 

[gumbo]

360kg :msn4:

 

[Tofufi]

Max permissable front axle weight is 1010kg... so should be more than 505kg per tyre.

Personally, I won't use anything that isn't a suitably rated C (light commercial) tyre. But there have been plenty of discussions on this before, other people are happy to use slam tyres.

 

[gumbo]

well after the burning rubber I'm Deffo changing up. Rather have a bigger tire than a motorway blow out :msn4:

 

[john the horse]

strange never had a problem with 50 or 45 profiles tyres,

jth

 

[gumbo]

are you running premium tires john. mines are budgets

 

[jonboylaw]

I recently swapped from continental 175/55/15 84 load rating to continental Vanco 185/60/15s 92/94 and the difference is huge. Now turns around corners rather than understeers. I noticed a lot of rubber dust in the old tyres as well.


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[*Sam*]

Whilst I completely understand people wanting to run Comercial tyers and I guess in reality we should as that is what is advised, I have not had any issues with 165/55/15 Nankang AS1 tyres, I have just returned from a fully loaded Cornwall trip no issues.

If you decide to stay with the lower profile tyre I would splash out and go for a Bridgestone potenza.

 

[john the horse]

are you running premium tires john. mines are budgets

the slams as you call it are bridgstone but the ultra slams 45 profile are nankang , never had a problem at all fella.
there ya go

jth

 

[john the horse]

Whilst I completely understand people wanting to run Comercial tyers and I guess in reality we should as that is what is advised, I have not had any issues with 165/55/15 Nankang AS1 tyres, I have just returned from a fully loaded Cornwall trip no issues.

If you decide to stay with the lower profile tyre I would splash out and go for a Bridgestone potenza.

agree totally

 

[gumbo]

Thanks for the replies to the thread people. appreciated!

I put bigger tires on today, just for peace of mind on the long haul trips. it's still low as feck so all good

 

[*Sam*]

What profile did you go for dude and have you a picture to post