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Old 07-09-2018, 10:30 AM   #1
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Motorhome weight and tire psi scale

I just wanted to show how important to verify your Georgetown weight as it paramount to your steering and driving comfort as well as your safety.

Last year I replaced my original Michelin tires as they were 55,000 miles and over 5 years old. The wear and tread was still good but I changed them because of safety.

After researching I decided to go with Toyo M154 tires and the closest equal size was 245/75R22.5 (Original Michelins XRV were 235/80R/22.5)
My install price with tire balancing, tax was $2,560 which was a very good deal as the Michelins would have been over $1,000 more.
The tires are rated the same for speed and design.

Note: Ford wants their F-53 weight distributed 40% on front tires and 60% on rear axle. Almost exactly what I have.


Now with them installed I needed to verify my Georgetown's weights and figure out what would be the proper tire psi for the front and rear tires.
What I found was that my Georgetown fully loaded was 2000 lbs under my GVWR sticker that says 22,000lbs. This is great.

I have attached my weight scale report as well as Toyo tire weight/psi for you to examine and read.
My present COLD Tire pressure are: Front 75 psi and rear dually 80 psi.
I actually went a bit higher in weight because I took into consideration a full fuel tank and full water tank.

Hope this information will help you get some idea of how my 378TS weighs and how it relates to your tire pressure.

Have a great summer.
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Old 07-09-2018, 07:36 PM   #2
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Thanks for the info.
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Old 07-11-2018, 11:52 PM   #3
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Hi Iggy,
Thanks for this. I’m in the market for tires now too. I’m having a very hard time finding objective information on tires. What did you find that lead you away from the Michelins and to the Toyos?
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I wish consumer reports tested RV tires like they do car tires.
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Old 07-13-2018, 09:37 PM   #5
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I just wanted to show how important to verify your Georgetown weight as it paramount to your steering and driving comfort as well as your safety.

Last year I replaced my original Michelin tires as they were 55,000 miles and over 5 years old. The wear and tread was still good but I changed them because of safety.

After researching I decided to go with Toyo M154 tires and the closest equal size was 245/75R22.5 (Original Michelins XRV were 235/80R/22.5)
My install price with tire balancing, tax was $2,560 which was a very good deal as the Michelins would have been over $1,000 more.
The tires are rated the same for speed and design.

Note: Ford wants their F-53 weight distributed 40% on front tires and 60% on rear axle. Almost exactly what I have.


Now with them installed I needed to verify my Georgetown's weights and figure out what would be the proper tire psi for the front and rear tires.
What I found was that my Georgetown fully loaded was 2000 lbs under my GVWR sticker that says 22,000lbs. This is great.

I have attached my weight scale report as well as Toyo tire weight/psi for you to examine and read.
My present COLD Tire pressure are: Front 75 psi and rear dually 80 psi.
I actually went a bit higher in weight because I took into consideration a full fuel tank and full water tank.

Hope this information will help you get some idea of how my 378TS weighs and how it relates to your tire pressure.

Have a great summer.


Iggy
Where did you find a scale that you could get the weight each of tires. All the scale I have gone to would give me the front and rear.

Thanks
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Old 07-14-2018, 02:41 PM   #6
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Where did you find a scale that you could get the weight each of tires. All the scale I have gone to would give me the front and rear.

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Louisiana Highway Patrol had set up a weighing area using portable individual scales for each wheel. I just drove up on them.
This was done for my Military RV group rally I had in Louisiana last year.
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Louisiana Highway Patrol had set up a weighing area using portable individual scales for each wheel. I just drove up on them.
This was done for my Military RV group rally I had in Louisiana last year.


Iggy
Thanks wish I could find one of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol to do that.

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I thought I saw somewhere that you drive so the right side is on the scale, weigh, then drive the left side on and weigh again.
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I thought I saw somewhere that you drive so the right side is on the scale, weigh, then drive the left side on and weigh again.


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I have ask at a couple of scales and they told me I couldn’t and some I have looked at didn’t have enough room on the side to get that for to each side.

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