That's so when one of us needs some legal advice, we know who to ask first!

Your selected tire size will work just fine on your truck. As the rim width gets narrower, I would imagine the overall diameter would increase slightly. The tire you're talking about is only a 32" tire, so if you get a little distortion and even if it's actually 32.5" tall, they should still fit fine with no rubbing issues.

Think of squeezing a square of jello.... if you squeeze the sizes together, it will get skinnier, but also taller. The exact ratio of skinniness to tallness is determined by the material's properties, specifically Poisson's Ratio.

- NCSU

 

Right.

 

Thank you one and all! I fully expect to mount the Nitto Terra Grappler 305/50/20s once Ford builds and delivers my new truck. Your encouragement and advice is warmly received.

Catch you all later (but I will be lurking among the various threads to learn what I can).

Dave

 

That tire should be the best combination of look's and ride comfort. Make sure you get some pics up when the truck comes in.

 

If it doesnt work someone is going to get sued!!!! you guys are screwed! haha

 

Big Smokey:

No one will get sued. I assume all risk with the Nitto Terra Grappler 305/50/20s. I am not that kind of a lawyer, thanks to a solid upbringing on the farmlands of Ohio....

Interesting note. The Ford Zone Manager who actually puts the trucks into production held up my order for two weeks before notifying my dealership. She wouldn't start production until the local Ford Inventory Manager added Ford SYNC and the driver's package to my option list. For unknown reasons, there was a compatibility issue that failed to register when the Inventory Manager entered my order into the computer. Get this: they kicked in a "model year end double discount" ($500 x 2) with the updated order! Since I have the "A Plan" (family connection employed by FMC), the discount was reduced ($415 x 2), but my original price was nonetheless reduced by over $300!

Unfortunately, I will not get my F-150 until late August or so. I feel like a kid before Christmas.....

 

PawPaw:

I believe the wheel/tire combination will look sweet. I earned it! You should have seen me at the tire shops or, better yet, at the dealership interrogating the service manager and parts manager, measuring wheel wells, etc. Not to mention the hours spent on F150 Online reading new and old posts on tire selection. Whew!

 

NCSU:

"Think of squeezing a square of jello.... if you squeeze the sizes together, it will get skinnier, but also taller. The exact ratio of skinniness to tallness is determined by the material's properties, specifically Poisson's Ratio."

Are you serious? Poisson's Ratio?

Keep it simple....I am a lawyer, after all (Ha!)

 

Hey Dave - any update on your truck and the tires you chose?

 

Maybe he was dis-bar'ed!!

 

i was anxious to see his new truck on TGs