Diamondpilot
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daugen
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I cannot believe how hard it was today to buy a trailer tire mounted on a rim, a spare tire for my new trailer.
Nobody sold the rims, not Goodyear, not PepBoys; it took five places to find them, believe or not at Lowes.
Awful cheesy looking Carlisle bias ply tire made in China. I was tired and at that point, they looked pretty fine to me. As a spare...
After we get back from our trip this week, I'm going to get two new good radials from Amazon. No driving around. I bet I spent twenty bucks in gas today, at least. I even found the home office of Load Rite Trailers, and no, they couldn't sell to me, wholesale only. Bummer. So I took what I could get and will put the spare on tomorrow. And I will carefully set the tire pressure to five pounds under the max on the tire. If I have to run heavy, I'll bump it up, but I'll start at that setting
and watch the wear on the wear indicators after our trip.
So off we go, fully shod with Chinese tires, and not to my liking at all.
Nobody sold the rims, not Goodyear, not PepBoys; it took five places to find them, believe or not at Lowes.
Awful cheesy looking Carlisle bias ply tire made in China. I was tired and at that point, they looked pretty fine to me. As a spare...
After we get back from our trip this week, I'm going to get two new good radials from Amazon. No driving around. I bet I spent twenty bucks in gas today, at least. I even found the home office of Load Rite Trailers, and no, they couldn't sell to me, wholesale only. Bummer. So I took what I could get and will put the spare on tomorrow. And I will carefully set the tire pressure to five pounds under the max on the tire. If I have to run heavy, I'll bump it up, but I'll start at that setting
and watch the wear on the wear indicators after our trip.
So off we go, fully shod with Chinese tires, and not to my liking at all.
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Diamondpilot
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daugen
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Why didn't you order your trailer with a spare?
an eminently sensible question. I was afraid of what tires the builder would put on, and turns out
was right to be, no name Chinese tires that I had never heard of. The trailer came in a week ago and clearly I sat on my hands too long. Oh well, I drive fairly slowly, rarely over 62, and we'll be pulling the trailer with the motorhome so maybe that speed is optimistic.
I normally trade out my tires upon delivery, just didn't get my act together this time and had to settle.
At least the trailer came with a nice heavy duty spare mount, welded into the frame, so at least my Chinese spare won't fall off. sigh.
This Carlisle tire had a poor finish on it, a tread pattern about as sophisticated as a wheel barrow tire, and
plainly looked inexpensive. Well, I'll slather some rubber protectant on it, I use the CRC product distributed by Napa, and hopefully it will sit on that spare mount forever.
an eminently sensible question. I was afraid of what tires the builder would put on, and turns out
was right to be, no name Chinese tires that I had never heard of. The trailer came in a week ago and clearly I sat on my hands too long. Oh well, I drive fairly slowly, rarely over 62, and we'll be pulling the trailer with the motorhome so maybe that speed is optimistic.
I normally trade out my tires upon delivery, just didn't get my act together this time and had to settle.
At least the trailer came with a nice heavy duty spare mount, welded into the frame, so at least my Chinese spare won't fall off. sigh.
This Carlisle tire had a poor finish on it, a tread pattern about as sophisticated as a wheel barrow tire, and
plainly looked inexpensive. Well, I'll slather some rubber protectant on it, I use the CRC product distributed by Napa, and hopefully it will sit on that spare mount forever.
I found a picture of the Mastertrack.
http://www.amazon.com/Mastertrack-2...89&sr=8-22&keywords=st225+75r15+trailer+tires
http://www.amazon.com/Mastertrack-2...89&sr=8-22&keywords=st225+75r15+trailer+tires
daugen
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did you see what was on the side of the Mastertrack tire? Angler and Radar. ??
Good boating trailer tires, the tires use radar to take you right to the fish...
did you see what was on the side of the Mastertrack tire? Angler and Radar. ??
Good boating trailer tires, the tires use radar to take you right to the fish...
I did not see that.
I just read some bad things about them. One guy had 3 blowout in 150 miles.
thatguy
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When i had my trailer tire 'issues' (see above post) - my research showed AT THAT TIME (about 2006ish) they were only rated for 55 mph
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Do you have a Sam's club or Costco local?
Sam's sells the greenball-towmaster online for about the same as Costco.