Quote: highmiler wrote in post #72

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Let's have some examples please from especially Troll owners, My current tyres are at 43 psi, and she tows very well, but I have never heard of the brand name, they are chinese. Highmiler.

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Quote: hob wrote in post #75

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So we debate alternatives, I have never suffered from the delusion that my decisions may be "definitive"

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Some of our older members can be a bit touchy so don't worry about it. They are not youngsters like you and me

Quote: highmiler wrote in post #84

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Apologies, definitive was the wrong word to use. I hope I didn't ruffle any feathers.

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A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by an Eriba owner with a 2013 van. He asked me to point this information out to you all when I had a chance. Because we've had some unreliable wifi signals I've left it until now.

Evidently, on newer vans there is a chart with tyre pressure information on the inside side wall of the locker box and this information conflicts with the information given in the accompanying manual.

Upon contacting Hymer, the owner was told that the info. given in the manual is for the Eriba when towed empty and the pressures stated in the locker box are for the Eriba when towed fully laden.

In the case of this particular 2013 Triton the tyre pressure in the manual is 3.3bar and the gas locker chart states 3.7bar (presumably when the van is fully laden).

What do you make of that then?

Randa

I'd guess that a recommendation to run them at pushing 54 psi fully laden (that's what 3.7 bar is) means 2013 Triton tyres are likely to be 185/R14C.

I wouldn't want to run our Troll (which has the same size tyres) with the pressures as high as that, fully laden or not.

We've said it before, but the suspension on these things is pretty rudimentary and depends on a degree of compliance in the tyre sidewalls to avoid having to sweep up your crockery with a dustpan and brush when you get wherever it is you're going*

And pressure that high doesn't tally with the online pressure calculators like the one Nev found a while ago, never mind common sense.



*That's a situation compounded by not having the van's wheels balanced. It's off at a bit of a tangent, but I completely fail to understand the logic of not bothering to do that when you have tyres replaced.

Just because you aren't sitting in it doesn't mean that it isn't bouncing along behind doing its damnedest to unscrew every nut and bolt.

It's mechanical empathy, apart from anything else...

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It's mechanical empathy, apart from anything else".[ Like that. I'll use that one again

We have a different set of circumstances, older and lighter van; smaller wheels and tyres, but I agree with you. We've found that 3bar (44psi) is the max. we are happy with. On this trip because of the lower speeds and rougher roads, we're down to 40psi.

Randa