Trailer tires suggestions
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Off topic. Feel free to point me at the right place.
I need to replace four 225/75R15 tires on my car hauler trailer. It's really "stuff" - hay bales, broken down cars, pontoon, livestock panels, utility line posts. You get the idea. I'm getting ready to haul 7K pounds of panels, else I'd keep going with the original tires. They have lasting 20 years.
Any suggestions? Someone said try E rated truck tires. ST tires range from $80 to $200 each.
Set 4 FREE COUNTRY Premium Trailer Tires ST 225/75R15 10PR Load Range E w/Featured Side Scuff Guard 11132
Worth a shot? Any suggestions?
I need to replace four 225/75R15 tires on my car hauler trailer. It's really "stuff" - hay bales, broken down cars, pontoon, livestock panels, utility line posts. You get the idea. I'm getting ready to haul 7K pounds of panels, else I'd keep going with the original tires. They have lasting 20 years.
Any suggestions? Someone said try E rated truck tires. ST tires range from $80 to $200 each.
Set 4 FREE COUNTRY Premium Trailer Tires ST 225/75R15 10PR Load Range E w/Featured Side Scuff Guard 11132
Worth a shot? Any suggestions?
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I need to replace four 225/75R15 tires on my car hauler trailer. I'm getting ready to haul 7K pounds of panels, else I'd keep going with the original tires. They have lasting 20 years.
Someone said try E rated truck tires. ST tires range from $80 to $200 each.
Any suggestions?
Someone said try E rated truck tires. ST tires range from $80 to $200 each.
Any suggestions?
Any tires on a trailer that are 20 years old are a blow out waiting to happen... no matter how light the load is, no matter how smooth the road is, no matter how good the tread is.
Rubber rots with age. 10 years from date of manufacture (per DOT code on tire) is about the longest that a trailer tire is good for.
So the first suggestion is to change the tires, even if you never end up hauling the 7K pounds.
The second suggestion is to consider the Goodyear Endurance ST225/75R15E (ST rated and Load Range E are not mutually exclusive). This tire has a Load Index rating of 117, and a pressure rating of 80 psi.
Make sure to inspect the front and back sides of your wheels before ordering tires rated to 80 psi. You want to make sure your wheels are also rated at 80psi or higher. If your wheels are only rated to 65-75 psi, then you might want to get Load Range D instead, which have an inflation rating of 65 PSI. When the tire pressure rating is less than or equal to the wheel pressure rating, you don't have to worry about a helpful service attendant inflating your tires beyond the maximum pressure rating of your wheels, simply due to looking at the pressure rating of the tires.
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AAArrrggg..This one is a thorn in my side so to say.. 95% of the "st" tires these days are absolute junk from China. Ive personally see and read many horrors from these piles of xxxx. New RV's with sides ripped apart, flipped RV's from blowouts, near death accidents. The dealers will argue with you and say its your fault for not inflating them correctly. I say BS. Yes, the goodyears are good and that's what we run on our horse trailer. Would you put Chinese tires on your $80,000 truck? Hell no. NEVER let a tire shop talk you into their china junk unless their willing to give you a detailed guarantee, in writing they will pay for 100% of the damages when one of their bargin basement piles lets go, which will never happen. If you cant find quality ST tires Id opt for E rated truck tires and screw their OOHHH...Mr. Bill... they will fall apart if you put then on a trailer.
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Agree with Apache. The Chineese have a long track record of being unable to produce quality vulcanized rubber goods. CNPC (yes the mega commie co) imports their own commie manufactured drilling equipment into the USA for resale, as soon as said equipment arrives at their yard from the port of Houston ALL the rubber goods (water hoses, hydraulic hoses, 10 heavy duty truck tires/unit, etc) gets replaced by made in the USA. If CNPC does not trust their own rubber goods neither do I.
With that said, on my trailers I still use chinee tires (getting USA tires almost impossible) knowing chin tires will need to be replaced like clockwork every 6 years due to dry rot.
With that said, on my trailers I still use chinee tires (getting USA tires almost impossible) knowing chin tires will need to be replaced like clockwork every 6 years due to dry rot.
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Agree with Apache. The Chineese have a long track record of being unable to produce quality vulcanized rubber goods. CNPC (yes the mega commie co) imports their own commie manufactured drilling equipment into the USA for resale, as soon as said equipment arrives at their yard from the port of Houston ALL the rubber goods (water hoses, hydraulic hoses, 10 heavy duty truck tires/unit, etc) gets replaced by made in the USA. If CNPC does not trust their own rubber goods neither do I.
With that said, on my trailers I still use chinee tires (getting USA tires almost impossible) knowing chin tires will need to be replaced like clockwork every 6 years due to dry rot.
With that said, on my trailers I still use chinee tires (getting USA tires almost impossible) knowing chin tires will need to be replaced like clockwork every 6 years due to dry rot.
If you are getting 6 years out of cheap ChineBomb ST tires, I’d say that you are the exception and not the rule………My TT’s stock China bombs didn’t even make the 3 year mark that I had planned to replace them at! But now we are into our 7th year on a set of very good Chinese Sailun ST tires.
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Get 14 ply tires and be done with it, just make sure your wheel and valve stem is up to the pressures these tires need for maximum load.
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I'd step up to 16" wheels and Load Range E LT's
Google "trailer tires China bombs" if you're skeptical. There's some good YT vids including:
I've been running Cooper LT's on my 18' car hauler for a decade or more. Never a problem even at max GTW of ~10k (tandem 5200#) all over the Rockies.....interstate, twisty passes, you name it.
Used to be 245/75/16 was REALLY easy to find in the secondary market. Now, less so as all trucks go 17, 18 or 20. But truthfully if you buy new and care for them you'll get 10 years from decent LT's...and even then you may only opt to replace due to age more than anything else.
All the alleged info about trailer tires doing better with long periods of sitting, anti-aging compounds or resisting the sidewall twist loads of tandem axles in a turn seem to do fine on paper but just aren't borne out in REALITY.
Avoid the Wuhan Institute of Tireology. Chinese ST's are neither safe or effective.
Google "trailer tires China bombs" if you're skeptical. There's some good YT vids including:
I've been running Cooper LT's on my 18' car hauler for a decade or more. Never a problem even at max GTW of ~10k (tandem 5200#) all over the Rockies.....interstate, twisty passes, you name it.
Used to be 245/75/16 was REALLY easy to find in the secondary market. Now, less so as all trucks go 17, 18 or 20. But truthfully if you buy new and care for them you'll get 10 years from decent LT's...and even then you may only opt to replace due to age more than anything else.
All the alleged info about trailer tires doing better with long periods of sitting, anti-aging compounds or resisting the sidewall twist loads of tandem axles in a turn seem to do fine on paper but just aren't borne out in REALITY.
Avoid the Wuhan Institute of Tireology. Chinese ST's are neither safe or effective.
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Local guy said he had good luck with mastertrack, so i went with four 10 ply at $500.
I did borrow a trailer for my 8000 load. A 20ft with 14 ply 16in mastertrack tires it turns out.
No chance my 16ft , with new tires, would have made it
I did borrow a trailer for my 8000 load. A 20ft with 14 ply 16in mastertrack tires it turns out.
No chance my 16ft , with new tires, would have made it
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