I'm swapping out my tires and want to get the right ones. Can someone check on their stock tires and let me know if they are P or LT? Thanks guys.

 

Mine are M+S P275/60 R20 Goodyear Wrangler HPs.

 

That's what I was thinking.... thanks man... that'll save me a few bucks and some issues from what I've been reading....

 

Could you explain?
I'm just about to put new 17" chrome wheels and tires on for winter tires - interested in saving bucks and avoiding issues.

 

I'm not sure where I found the link but Nitto had a good breakdown of the difference between P and LT tires. Basically if you use LT tires the inflation would have to be different if the stock tires were P. This can lead to uneven/quicker tire wear. The LT tires also cost more initially.

 

but if you are planning on using your truck as a truck then LT tires are the way to go. as long as you check tire pressure and rotate and balance your tires then you should never have problems with an LT tire. Trust me, I drive alot of gravel roads and have never had good luck with a regular passenger tire holding up, gravel always ends up chewing up the tread and never last more than 20k miles. On my old truck I could easily get 40 to 50k miles out of them with no problem, heck even my dad can get 30k out of LT tires and he has a ford diesel and we pull a 1600 gallon water tanker with it all summer on gravel chasing the sprayer, that would not be possible with passenger tires.

 

Not sure where you got this impression... Only likely case leading to uneven wear would be if you intermixed a "P"assenger and a "L"ight "T"ruck tire on the same axle... And if you under or over-inflated one of them...

Passenger tires on a Full-size Truck are a cost-saving measure by Dodge, and while quality tires (not necessarily the tires Dodge supplies) can hold up under the weight and power conditions of a lightly used Pick-up Truck, any decent amount of towing or offroad usage will test them to (or past) their limits. LT tires are stronger (more plies under the tread and on the sidewalls and designed to protect the bead and the wheel) with more resilient tread compounds and deeper tread. They come in all varieties of Highway and Offroad and All-terrain designs, and in all but the lowest of profiles and sizes.

And don't EVEN get me started on the lame spare tire Dodge provides for most models...

 

Just depends on whether you drive a Passenger (P) vehicle or a Light Truck (LT)

 

I plan on replacing with LT - light truck tires - when the stockers go, for now the 'P' tires will do since I have no problem with the Goodyears. I wouldn't have put 'P' on a 4x4 but they are cheaper than LT's.

 

The LT are the way to go for a truck. Only issue is going to be the TPMS system because the LT's run at a higher pressure.