Sailun Tire Failure

fj12ryder wrote:

laknox wrote:
You also have to realize that you're not getting the same level of after-sale service with the Sailun as you are with the GY. Part of GY's price is the "insurance" you're buying since they are, in many cases, willing to step up and pay for damages caused by a tire failure. So far, I've not heard of Sailun stepping up like this. This is NOT meant to be a knock against Sailun or a promo for GY, just stating part of the cost difference.

Lyle

To be honest, in all my years of buying tires, about 45 years, I've never had any dealings with any tire after-sale service. So after-sale service is nothing I'm even familiar with when it comes to tires.

Except for the 2 tire failures of the horrible Carlisle ST tires, I've not had a tire fail on any vehicle I've owned. I have had a couple flats due to nails, which were fixed for about $15/tire. So any extra money I would have paid out for higher priced tires, i.e, "insurance", would have been money wasted. And yes, I do consider excess money spent for insurance also wasted. The only insurance I carry on my vehicles is mandated by the state, and a CMyA.

Personally if I had tires I paid big bucks for and they failed, I'll be darned if I'd buy another even if they did pay for repairs. Why buy something, and pay extra for it, when you expect it to fail? I suppose the people that pay extra for their tires also have extended warranties on everything they own.

And FWIW perhaps no one has heard of Sailun "stepping up" because there has been no need. I dunno about that, but I've heard of nothing. The Sailun failures I've read of seem to have occurred with no resulting damage to the trailer.

I guess I'll just have to be considered a Sailun "fanboy". LOL

Personally, I've had plenty of tire failures over the years, fortunately, none were catastrophic. Most were simple flats. I had one tire on my old Komfort go bad the 2nd year we owned it, but I caught it before the tread did more than start to wrap around the axle. Replaced it and the other 3 went bad the next year with separations. Again, fortunately, no damage. Total miles was < 2500 in just over 2 years. Next set went bad after another 3 years, all with starts to separations. I got smart and put on E tires instead of Ds and got 5 years out of them (Carlisle RH), then sold the trailer going into the 6th year. On my truck, I ran BFG Long Trail TAs, then Rough Trail TAs. I had 6 of 8 go bad with tread separations in 8 years and replaced with Coopers from Discount. Discount did step up and warrant all the bad tires from BFG since all were within mileage and age specs.

Lyle