5th wheel tires
What are considered the best tire for 5th wheels today Have a Cedar Creek weighing 11,700 wet and it is time for a change
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joebedford wrote:
I was surprised to see in this thread that Bridgestone has discontinued the R250. I have 6 of those on my TH. They've aged out. Thinking of replacing them with Sailun S637. What's the best place to by them? I'm in Florida.
Bridgestone did discontinue the R250 but came out with a better updated 16" R238. Same commercial grade all steel ply carcass with the same tread type except the R238 has a bit more siping for a bit more wet traction.
With 15/32 of tread depth their popular with haulers who run them for 50k-70k miles on their service trailers. In that type or work we can wear out two sets a years vs maybs 4 sets of a 16" ST E tire with their 9 or 10/32 of tread depth.
JMO its been my experience the 16" Sailun S637 G load range at 4080-4400 lbs work best on 7k and 8k axles.....or overloaded 6k axles. These are the holy grail for commercial haulers who use 16" and 17.5" tires on our trailers. I have six 16" load G Sailuns on a triaxle GN stock trailer.
But I sure wouldn't run them or any tire on a trailer at 30+ percent under max sidewall.
