I need new Tires
I blew a tire yesterday coming home from Branson. They were 5 years old and came on the camper when we bought it. Trailer King ST225-R15. THey look so new and great tread but I always assume cheap tir...
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Huntindog wrote:DogTrainer wrote:When I made the jump to LTs in 2006, I put my old tires/rims on craigs list. Got 150.00 within a couple of hours. Lots of landscapers always looking for trailer tires with rims.
Thank you so much for the information and I look forward to some new safer tires on the trailer.
I don't want to change the size of the rims...but let me look at what you all recommended and the cost if I did move to 16's.
That can help defray the cost of making the jump.
I have never looked back.
One thing to be aware of though, 16s usually require 6 lug drums. You likely have those anyway on a 5ver though. It is the TTs that can go either way.
One thing is for sure though... Going to 16s opens up a huge array of tires to choose from.
Yeah that array includes a couple of good brand commercial grade all steel ply carcass LT E tires for 5.2k and 6k axles.....and several brands of 16" load G commercial grade all steel ply ST tires for 7k-8k axles.
Many times a RV trailer owner with 13'/14" load C /D tires hears every one talking about how good the 16" tire I mentioned above are....and think they need to make the change to 16" .
Same with those with trailers with 6k axles/2500-2800 lbs load per tire and go with a ST load G at 4008-4400 lbs or even worse moving on up to 17.5" load H at 6008 lbs/120 psi as one owner did....then ran them at 80 psi 'cause he was told to 'cause he read it on a rv website.
Then complained mpgs dropped like a rock on his 3500 drw Dmax/A making the same weekly trips on the same roads.
More or bigger anything sometimes isn't always the best idea.
