Just avoided a tire disaster

JIMNLIN wrote:

Bamaman1 wrote:
This is like a broken record--day after day. Horror stories about WillPop Chinese tires.

Too bad the U.S. Government will not address regulation of RV and Marine tires. If there were hundreds of grizzly deaths resulting from blown trailer tires, they might change their minds.

I'm going to change my tires as soon as my fifth wheel trailer arrives.

ST tires are a niche tire like agriculture tires/ATV tires/lawn and garden tires/etc. Their not designated to carry passengers so the gov (NHTSA) has proven not to care about niche tire performance as long as deaths aren't involved.
Case in point is at one time there were over 250 tire complaints about Carlisle ST tires reported on safe/car.gov website. I and others saw them. We even argued about them with a couple of Carlisle users.

NHTSA gleaned 8-9 of them out and reported the others didn't have the proper information so were deleted from the web. NHTSA came to the conclusion that because there was nothing but damage reports and no deaths that NHTSA had nothing to act on.

Nothing will be done about the issue till deaths are reported or political pressure can be put on NHTSA to act on the problem from a damage/cost perspective IMO.

Now.... ST tires being a niche tire are a low volume tire when we compare P and LT total sales. They do have a place with small utility trailers/lawn service trailers/trailers not used specifically as a highway trailer/etc.
JMO

Y'know, I really don't understand why some tire company simply doesn't take one of their good LT tires (Rib, Duravis, etc.), up the load rating and re-brand it as an ST. I almost suggested that they put a load rating like they do for single/dual use, by simply adding a "trailer use" spec, but then you'd have people putting them on their truck and loading to the trailer spec.

Lyle