32 Cold All 'round

Submitted: Thursday, Jun 08, 2006 at 20:36
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I have been reading various posts lately relating to tyre pressures.

Why do most people have higher psi pressure in their rear tyres than in the front?

Is it because of a perceived weight factor?

Now big 4by wagons weigh in around 2800kg or thereabouts. Another 500kgs of stuff and humans is spread from the back through to the centre of the vehicle.

Has anybody weighed their vehicle on scales to see what the difference in weight is between the front half and the back half.....loaded?

Running less pressure on the front tyres must put an extra strain on the suspension in normal bitumen and outback gravel road conditions. So why pump the back up to a higher psi level to make the vehicle bounce around more.

I run my tyres the same all around on cold pressures

32psi bitumen
28psi gravel roads
25psi bush tracks
20psi sandy bush tracks
15psi Simpson Tracks
13psi Off Road

Trailer on cold pressures
25spi bitumen
20psi gravel roads
10psi in the sand

It works for me
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