I might just be imagining this, cause I have really never noticed this, but I just had new Bfg AT's put on the truck today($227.00 out the door thanks to this site!). After I left the shop, I drove approximately 30 miles home and checked the tire pressure on the new tires(just to be sure). The pressures were exactly where I asked them to be. The issue I have is that the wheels were VERY hot to the touch. Almost too hot to keep your hand on!!! Of course the fronts were much hotter than the backs. I check my tire pressures approx once a month and never really noticed the wheels being that hot. How hot do your wheels get from just driving around. (most of the driving today was highway, so brake use was limited). Am I just being paranoid, or could there be an issue caused by the tire install? Thanks in advance.

 

No issues, just the friction of the tire's momentum.

 

Just out of curiosity, what was the tire pressure?

 

I have never really felt the wheels after driving, but man, they are HOT. Like I said, literally too hot to keep your hand on. But if thats normal, then thanks for the reassurance.

 

They are 265 70 17's E rated...fronts at 70 psi and rears at 75 psi

 

If you have more than the suggested tire pressure in them they will generate more heat.

 

I have always run my E rated tires at these pressures and never had any issues and always had good tire wear...like I said, I never really paid any attention to the wheel temp, so its prolly normal.

 

acually the lower the psi the hotter they get. heat is generated by side wall diflection, hence the lower the pressure the more the sidewall "gives". thats why blowouts happen when driving on under-inflated tires.

 

If your rims are really too hot to touch I doubt the tires would be the cause. If the rims are that hot you should smell hot rubber. It sounds more like heat from heavy braking. How many miles on your truck? New brakes will run hotter when new. Are you sure your not touching the rotor?

 

Sorry, I thought this was a post about really small metal cars.

 

I would be more worried about one tire being hotter than the other than i would about all tires being hot! You might want to try one of those laser temp gauges and use them on all four tires. It also comes in hand y to find out what U-joint is bad.

There is about 1000 other uses for this tool that do not pertain to Dodges also!

 

Say i wouldn't be to conserned. I used to be a tire technician in an interstate town so yeah we'd have travelers with flats and blowouts right off the highway all the time and the wheels are usually always very warm to even hot to the touch. It's just from the heat build up in the tire from driving at a higher rate of speed, brakes getting warm when slowing from a higher rate of speed, Specially on these newer trucks with the larger rim diameters specially the trucks with 20"s because they don't run a different brake rotor from the trucks with 16-17"s so the rotor is trying to stop a lot larger wheel and tire that's it not designed for so it's a lot more work and wears out pads and rotors a lot quicker. Not to mention your wheels spinning create inertia (sp) which is friction so it builds up heat. Don't be alarmed specially on all wheels, now if you have one a lot hotter then the rest you got a problem, but you shouldn't so i wouldn't worry.

 

Check your pressures when Cold...

I agree with the comment that if your tires are under inflated they produce more heat. I intentionally run mine slightly over what the manufacturer states.......I have found that if I do that the tires last longer and wear better...If your vehicle is out of alignment you could get hotter tires also.

 

Thanks guys...its not the tires that I was talking about being really hot, its the wheel. Weird thing is that I drove pretty much the same route today, and the wheels were just warm. Something was up yesterday for the wheels to be that hot. Oh well, they are fine today. thanks for the input.

 

You have it just the opposite there. Less air means more rolling resistance.