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Sticker on the inside driver's door
This is on our new Lazy Daze.

Looks like 75 psi front and 80 psi in the rear.

It's a little difficult to read but does it read that way to you?
2021 Mid Bath
Re: Sticker on the inside driver's door
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That would be a rough ride unless you were maxed out on weight.
plan B - 2023 Travato
Re: Sticker on the inside driver's door
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Ted; Yes, if you are running at the maximum weight, then you want maximum tire pressure.  Most of us don't run at maximum weight. After you get the two axles weighed, fully loaded for a trip, then you can safely reduce tire pressure for a better ride. Lazy Daze can't know what weight you will be carrying, why would they tell you any tire pressure except the maximum.      RonB
RonB (Bostick) living in San Diego
Original owner of "Bluebelle" a '99 TKB
Re: Sticker on the inside driver's door
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Quote from: RonB  - 
Ted; Yes, if you are running at the maximum weight, then you want maximum tire pressure.  Most of us don't run at maximum weight. After you get the two axles weighed, fully loaded for a trip, then you can safely reduce tire pressure for a better ride. Lazy Daze can't know what weight you will be carrying, why would they tell you any tire pressure except the maximum.      RonB

I've never known where to get the axles weighed. Hadn't thought about it much. I have been running 65 front and 75 rear.
2021 Mid Bath
Re: Sticker on the inside driver's door
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I've never known where to get the axles weighed. Hadn't thought about it much. I have been running 65 front and 75 rear.

Most big truck stops on the Interstates have CAT scales.  Just drive on until the front and rear tires are on different platform segments.  Use the intercom to ask for a weight and tell them it is a private weighing.  In Oregon scales are usually left operating when the station is not active.  Usually you can see the readout, drive just the front onto the platform, read that weight and then repeat with just the rear.  Better yet is a four corner weighing, but these are much harder to get.  Usually at big RV rallies and a couple of Escapees parks that service is available

It a good idea to run at tire pressures that matches your tire specification and axle weights.  Too little and the tire can heat up and sustain damage, as well as the outside tread wearing faster.  Too much and your ride is harsher and the tire contact patch will be smaller, possibly impacting breaking performance, and tread in the center tends to wear faster.

Just my opinion from reading many tire discussions on forums over the years,
Art
Art and Barbara
Settled in Atterdag Village of Solvang
2015-2022 fulltime in a 2016 Tiffin Allegro Bus 37AP
2002-2015 2002 LD MB
Art's blog
Re: Sticker on the inside driver's door
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Ted, interesting that my door sticker has the exact weights and pressures as yours.  I thought the 2021 chassis had a slightly higher capacity?

I recently did a Cat Scale weigh, as Art suggested, and here are the results.  I was fully loaded with gear, propane, gasoline, and freshwater. Holding tanks were pretty much empty and both of us in the cab.

Here is what Michelin recommends for the Agilis tires but I think yours came with the Hankook brand, if not mistaken.

We will have the four corner weigh done next month at the Escapees park in Livingston, TX.  Hope this helps!

Greg & Victoria
2017 Mid-Bath  “Nocona” towing a manual 2015 Forester
Previously a 1985 TK
SKP #61264
 
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"In Oregon scales are usually left operating when the station is not active.  Usually you can see the readout, drive just the front onto the platform, read that weight and then repeat with just the rear."
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Oregon's roadside scales are swell! As Art said, one can at least get front and rear axle weights, and if the area around the pad is "open", one can often maneuver the rig (obviously easier with the short rig) to get weights on each corner.

NB: The sign for the weigh station may say "Closed", but if the scale readout is still on and the scale is not coned/blocked off, pull in and weigh!
2003 TK has a new home