Tire inflation

avvidclif1 wrote:
There is enough tire expertise on this group that they should be able to design the PERFECT trailer tire. If only the mfgs and engineers would listen to the pros.

There are PERFECT trailer tires today from Goodyear, Michelin, Bridgestone and others! Their size just does not start with ST! I have run Michelin XPS Ribs and Bridgestone Duravis R250's on my trailer. I think the R250 for axles up to 6K is about as perfect as there is available! For 7K axles the GY G614 is as perfect as there is available! Above that 17.5 rims and tires are as perfect as there is available.

One just has to be willing to spend the money! Admission is just not cheap!

Carlisle is "trying" to forge a new route, it is to bad no trailer manufacturer is coming on board to get enough product is use to provide reliable feed back on their new product, as a couple posters here with small light trailers is not the type of feed back needed to truly show if they have solved the riddle of the sphinx.

I would like to hear from someone that had OEM ST235/80R16E on 6750-7K axles and after failures switched to the Radial Trail RH's and ran two or three years and a lot of miles in hot SW conditions without problems.

Carlisle should get a 15K 5th wheel trailer and TV, and run it back and forth between Palm Springs and Phoenix in hot and windy weather and see if it can log 40K miles without a problem. I have done that 300 mile leg with 40 mph wind out of the South all day long. Tires on the shaded down wind side ran hotter than the ones in the sun!

It would be a great test and sales promotion! 67 days of round trips across the desert. Stick that in your bass boat and go fishing!

Chris