I just installed 265/70R19.5's on my truck. Bridgestone M729F's. The look good but they are pretty close to touching in the front. I will have to put my tembrens back on the front so they will be ok I think. Tires look awesome
I know this is an old thread, but I find myself asking the same questions about mounting taller/wider tires on my 2017 Ram 4x4 5500. How did the 265s fair over time? Good wear? No rubbing between rears with stock rims?
Would like feedback from you and any others that have mounted larger 19.5s on their Ram C&Cs.
They look good! looks like you put them on your stock rims? I'm curious as to how they'll wear, keep us posted. What was your reasoning for going to such a large tire? Just wanting to fill in the wheel wells?
Stock rims. I'm overweight all the time abv I have blow outs and irregular wear with the 225's so I want to see how these do. I've got another truck with 6700 miles on some 245's that are wearing good so far
I like the tread pattern on them. are they fairly quiet? The tires I've got on right now howl like crazy lol. I've got a buddy that runs 245's on stock size wheels and they wear a little heavy on center because of the cupping but he says it's not too bad. the main reason I still run 225's is price. 245's jump pretty drastic in price, I bet those 265's were a pretty penny!
I think it cups less than the 225's but I'm no expert. Here are some pictures. Also, I just had them mounted with no balancing and the last 100 miles have been awesome. Much smoother than my 225's that were about to blow
No spacer no touch. If they touched they would have blown by now. Keep in mind my truck weighs 20,000-22,000 lbs 100% of the time. There is about 1 inch clearance except for at the bottom which is about 3/4"
I don't think it was much at all. If you go to the Bridgestone commercial tire website it will tell you all the differences. I think the tire RPM one the 225 is like 630 and the 265 is like 619 or something like that.
have 30k miles on Goodyear G622 245/70-19.5's, gross 24-25klbs every day and have very good wear on the steers and nice flat wear on the drives, get temps up to 140-150 pulling our cable reeler that puts the rear axle weight right at 22k and have had zero issues, the factory Continentals lasted 40K before a drive let go.
yes, i was shocked too, we usually dont get that many miles, all our new service trucks now have cats eyes and central tire inflation that keeps the drives at 105psi all the time, that and the fact i spend most my time on the highway makes me think why they lasted so long... my last truck I got 25k before I started having problems with the continentals, switched to toyos and they where pretty good except they wandered like crazy. having the crane and a 200gal lube cube and all my tools,parts,rigging,and crap, makes tires wear funny.
Bedlam, do you tow at all? I haveb2021 ram 4500 with 225's and want to go taller. But was told they could come off the rim while towing heavy or in a tirn. Ever heard anything like that?
Ipennock I know that, thats obviously why I asked the question thatbI did. I see guys do it ALL the time still without issues but I was asking HIM what HIS experience was.
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