yeah, tires again

JIMNLIN wrote:

Thats a terrible price for a questionable tire compared to a Sailun S637 , which are just half the price of a G614 , and again arguably a S637 are a more dependable tire. It just seems crazy to pay the outrageous price they are getting for a G614, but it does make sense because you are having to pay that extra for the insurance they want so they can fix the damaged trailers . It makes a lot more sense to buy a tire you don't need to pay for insurance.

Complete nonsense! Run the G14's on all rigs past and present. NEVER A PROBLEM. Great tire.

Actually on the many different trailering web forums in the late '90s and up to the late '00s era the G614's RST had a terrible reputation that rivaled a ST tire for reliability issues. To Goodyears credit they made a redo on the G614 RST sometime around the late '00s time frame. Seems to have worked as we don't see as many G614 RST failures reported when looking at the many RV and non RV trailer web forums.

Lots of hype for Goodyear honoring G614 warranty on this forum. On other web forums its just the opposite.

The Sailun S637 hasn't been on the market long enough to see how its going to last long term but with no reported structural failures reported from all type of trailer forums it may be a winner.
Operators on a couple of commercial forums have reported they are on the 2nd/3rd sets. Some of these folks will run 75k - 100k miles a year and use two sets a year.
Rv trailers sit most of the time so 5-7 years should tell the tale.

I agree the G614's have been doing better, but there is still the failures . I too am running the G614's, bought them in the spring of 2010, been an excellent tire for me, but I am no where near their max rating. They were far from being as high priced as they are now. Being that they will be six years old next spring, I will look pretty hard at the Sailun S637 . That gives them nearly another year under their belt as far as dependability. We will see if they are still getting the excellent reports they are getting now.

Its far from complete nonsense , and no one should discount the many reported failures of the G614's. Granted in most applications they are going to perform okay, but that still have that if factor about them.