ST Tire "Plies" Question and a PSI Question
(BTW I am aware of the various "issues" concerning Carlisles, Marathons, and ST vs LT, having read many tire threads here over the years. Moving right along then-- :) My 2002 built OEM Goodyear Ma...
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Yes I wanted Maxxis too, but the tire shop I like to use does not carry them anymore. Only STs they carry now are the RHs. One Goodyear place had Marathons in their list but then they found they could not order any! Something going on with those, not clear. It seems if you have 15 inch wheels you are running out of choices.
Got new 15" pretty aluminum wheels a few years ago to replace the rusty white steel originals, so I am stuck with 15" size tires.
One time I was going to get 16" wheels so I could use my old truck tires on the trailer, but the truck tires are too wide to fit in the trailer wheel wells up high.
Our 2003 with the Cs has GVWR at 10,000 lbs and GAWR is four times the 2150 for a C = 8600. Pin weight carries the rest. Then in 2005 the 26s got Ds and all of a sudden the same 26 trailer has a GVWR of 11 something, and the GAWR is suddenly four times 2540 for a D = 10,160. Sort of comical, since the trailer weighed about the same.
I see these days, the big thing is to have trailers this size with GVWRs of 9,999 lbs. ( Gosh, could that be for driver's licence reasons?? :) ) But they have hardly any cargo rating.
I do like ours with a GVWR that lets us not need a special licence and it has bags of cargo capacity. Now that I have the Ds, that does not change the official GVWR so we are still good, but if we had the same trailer in a 2005 with its Ds, we would need a special licence! What a farce, and it is all just because of the tires and nothing to do with the actual trailer.
Got new 15" pretty aluminum wheels a few years ago to replace the rusty white steel originals, so I am stuck with 15" size tires.
One time I was going to get 16" wheels so I could use my old truck tires on the trailer, but the truck tires are too wide to fit in the trailer wheel wells up high.
Our 2003 with the Cs has GVWR at 10,000 lbs and GAWR is four times the 2150 for a C = 8600. Pin weight carries the rest. Then in 2005 the 26s got Ds and all of a sudden the same 26 trailer has a GVWR of 11 something, and the GAWR is suddenly four times 2540 for a D = 10,160. Sort of comical, since the trailer weighed about the same.
I see these days, the big thing is to have trailers this size with GVWRs of 9,999 lbs. ( Gosh, could that be for driver's licence reasons?? :) ) But they have hardly any cargo rating.
I do like ours with a GVWR that lets us not need a special licence and it has bags of cargo capacity. Now that I have the Ds, that does not change the official GVWR so we are still good, but if we had the same trailer in a 2005 with its Ds, we would need a special licence! What a farce, and it is all just because of the tires and nothing to do with the actual trailer.
