Thread: Tyre talk….Falken AT3W

If doing a LOT of heavy towing and running at full load the LT's are the way to go - but, the consequences are a harsher ride and you will need to be a lot better at adjusting tyre pressures to suit what you are doing.

The stiffer carcass and sidewall can be counteracted a bit by running a lower tyre pressure when you are empty and then upping the pressure when you need to have the stiffer sidewall (like a 3.5ton digger trailer pushing the back of the ute around). If you run light with the tyres at full pressure, likely to be noisier, hit bumps harder and also might be slightly less grippy if it's wet.

For occasional towing of something like a trailer sailer, I would not be looking to run LT's - it's more of a fully loaded service ute going into the forestry type scenario for me. For example of this, I was in construction diving and the gear is f**king heavy but not bulky so I could easily take the ute over max axle weight if not careful... I don't run LT tyres as I'm not running heavy all the time although I am on aftermarket "towing pack" rear suspension with a balancing tweak to the front to level it back out as the trailers I was towing were too heavy for the factory rear leafs and inverted them!