need new trailer tires!
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need new trailer tires!
lastn year i bought a set of 225/75/15 carlise tires off CL. the tires looked brand new,no wear or checking ect... so off i go on a camping trip, on the way home at 70mph one of the trailer tires decided to come apart in a big way! thank God for a 6500lbs ford truck and 5th wheel pulling! so i changed it and pulled to the first CAT scale i could find. i was well under the load limit on every axle and tire. i got home and called carlise and found out the tires were six years old and they said tough s!@#. so now we are planning some trips but need new tires before it leaves the yard again. i will not buy overseas tires and wont buy Carlise either. what are my options??? very limited i guess and where is the best place to buy from. thansk jackk
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First your tires are ST rated, that means the speed rating is 65 MPH. You may want to look at some 15" LT tires that are rated at 75 MPH. Your biggest problem may be tire clearance. As far as tires made in the US we had two sets of US made Goodyear G614 16" tires on our trailer and had nothing but trouble with them. We are now riding on Sumitomo tires that were made in Japan.
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Buy the cheapest car/truck tires that you can find that have an adequate load rating for your use.
Generic truck tires with an E Load rating (sounds like that is what you need) are more than adequate.
I have 3 trailers. 2 have generic car/truck tires, 1 has "official" Goodyear trailer tires.
Guess which trailer is the only one to ever have a flat?
Generic truck tires with an E Load rating (sounds like that is what you need) are more than adequate.
I have 3 trailers. 2 have generic car/truck tires, 1 has "official" Goodyear trailer tires.
Guess which trailer is the only one to ever have a flat?
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Take a look at B F Goodrich Commercial T/A All Season tires. Make sure that they are LT, stay away from ST. They are made in USA. Make sure you check the date code on tires before you buy them. Keep tires inflated to the max listed on the side of the tire when towing.
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I put Maxxis E rated tires on my 5er just before I left on my trip to Colorado. I am on my way back now and they are doing great. Noted they are a 65 mph tire. Make sure they are balanced also....I swear that does make a difference
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Well in Buena Vista, 75 day, 42 nights, evening shower as normal. Pueblo, when we lite in there on July 2nd, it was hot. 95 or so and kind of miserable. In the mountains, it snowed July 4th above 11.000 ft. Great fishing, and it was nice to cool off and leave the humidity behind for a few days. Pueblo on Wednesday was cloudy 85 and pleasant. Just got back into home base. Humid, hot and miserable.
Diesel is running 2.89 in West Pueblo, 3.09 up in the mountains, the cheapest prices I paid was in Ft. Worth at 2.69....
Diesel is running 2.89 in West Pueblo, 3.09 up in the mountains, the cheapest prices I paid was in Ft. Worth at 2.69....
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lastn year i bought a set of 225/75/15 carlise tires off CL. the tires looked brand new,no wear or checking ect... so off i go on a camping trip, on the way home at 70mph one of the trailer tires decided to come apart in a big way! thank God for a 6500lbs ford truck and 5th wheel pulling! so i changed it and pulled to the first CAT scale i could find. i was well under the load limit on every axle and tire. i got home and called carlise and found out the tires were six years old and they said tough s!@#. so now we are planning some trips but need new tires before it leaves the yard again. i will not buy overseas tires and wont buy Carlise either. what are my options??? very limited i guess and where is the best place to buy from. thansk jackk
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> on the way home at 70mph one of the trailer tires decided to come apart
Way too fast for towing imho. Plus, your tires were probably rated for only 65 mph or less. The reason for the MPH limit is because the cords and plies are like coat hangers, bend them too fast too many times and they fatigue and snap. You might not even get heat build up to warn you.
> found out the tires were six years old and they said tough s!@#.
Any tire three years old and used for towing should probably go on your low speed 50 mph trailer or be used for a spare. Tires break down over time, even mostly syn. ones.
jmho, What I would do is buy LT "E" rated tires and swap them out every three years or buy a ST rated tire and do the same.
I think there was a reason the tires were on CL and were almost brand new.
Way too fast for towing imho. Plus, your tires were probably rated for only 65 mph or less. The reason for the MPH limit is because the cords and plies are like coat hangers, bend them too fast too many times and they fatigue and snap. You might not even get heat build up to warn you.
> found out the tires were six years old and they said tough s!@#.
Any tire three years old and used for towing should probably go on your low speed 50 mph trailer or be used for a spare. Tires break down over time, even mostly syn. ones.
jmho, What I would do is buy LT "E" rated tires and swap them out every three years or buy a ST rated tire and do the same.
I think there was a reason the tires were on CL and were almost brand new.
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I 2nd. the Goodrich Radial T/As. Put them on my 5th. wheel and it was like a new trailer. Blew 4 Carlisles in 2 yrs. Big time damage to trailer. Carlisle covered the repairs and gave me 5 new tires, but blew another tire a few months later. Mine were less than 1 yr. old when they started to blow. Never over weight, always inlated to max, never scrubbed curbs. Just plain crap tires. They wouldn't cover the replacement tires.
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I also run BFG Commercial T/A on my 5th wheel. 235/85/16 LRE. They worked great on our 3000 mile trip to Colorado. I've had them on the 5th wheel about 3 months and they have roughly 5k miles on them. I'm very pleased with them.