So you went out and spent $40k - 60k on a new 4-wheel drive truck and put big off-road tires on it so you could get to work out in the oilfields. You could have bought a 1920's era Dodge!
As this video demonstrates, our roads have come a long way in 94 years. One must wonder if many of our 4 wheel drive and ATV's could do as well as this old Dodge sedan did.
what a great video
Dtp
I'll be watching that one more than once!
I am amused by the lifted rigs with more rubber than the whole production run of cars like that. My 53 GMC gets around fine on skinny tires.
I don't know if my 2007 dodge pickup could get through some of that terrain as easily...impressive car.
Skinny tires work well for most commonly encountered situations. However when you start getting into extreme situations, the larger the tires have many benefits.
Being able to lower the air pressure to nearly zero without losing a tire off the rim is one of them. Lowering the tire pressure is nearly the same as engaging the 4-wheel drive in many rigs. Take your skinny tires and try to drive out in the sand dunes...
Many people swear by those skinny, narly, biased ply military looking tires that all of the ranchers used to use on their feed trucks. My brother bought a International Scout that came with a brand new set. You couldn't run them at any tire pressure other than max., otherwise they would slip off the rim. About the third time they slipped the bead, they came off and a different set of tires went on.
