New ST Goodyear tires
We had a blow out on the original tires with our Forest River 26 ft 5er. The tire could not be repaired. We bought 1 Goodyear ST tire on the road. They told us to run 50-55 lbs of air. We got home and...
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Ralph Cramden wrote:CALandLIN wrote:
Horror stories. Lost both passenger side tires to a road gator going west on I-15 out of Las Vegas. Catastrophic failure on I-40 at nowhere NM. Steel valve stem was gone. Something must have flew-up and knocked it off. Lost the trailing driver side tire in downtown Rochester, NY caused by hitting a protruding manhole cover. Missed it with the lead tire but it ripped the whole side out of the trailing tire. City would not pay because they had warning signs posted. Lost a lead driver side tire on a dirt road in Manitoba. Got some sort of industrial steel cable thru the sidewall. Those are just some of the dramatic ones I remember.
At least 20 years running ST tires on 4 different TT's and a small fleet of both boxed and flat equipment trailers, most of them offshore made. There is not one failure I can not attribute to some sort of road hazard.
These over and over threads are nothing but forum spew.
Our Cardinal weighed 12.4K and had 5,200 axles. It came with china bomb LT235/85R16Es. Kenda gave me 110 each for all 5 to remove then in the first year. I installed XPS Ribs and ran them 6.5 years and around 40K miles(never looking back), replacing them with Duravis R250's which were still on the trailer when be sold in 4 years later. Never had a tire issue, and seldom needed air with the Ribs and R250. This included travel in the Southwest heat, year after year going back and forth from Washington to Arizona, driving up to 500 miles in a single day.
So now we may have a ST tire in the GY Endurance that will stand up to that kind of service. It has been a long wait, with a lot of damaged trailers in the mean time by china bombs.
