Defective Trires & Wheels
I am kinda tired of the junk being manufactured by the major RV companies. I have owned 5 different travel trailers & one 5th wheel. Quality issues with all of them. But when they risk peoples life's...
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We see cracking with a 5 spoke off shore made aluminum wheels tyically on rv websites quite often. Their simply aren't the best idea for closed spaced axles that are faced with large side stress loads daily.
Serious haulers (commercial) won't use them for that very reason.
The only aluminum wheels I used on my service trailers were modular type Alcoa. No cracking even at max loads spinning a tri axle GN trailer around on the center axle.
Math for axle/tires and wheels on your trailer will be 11500 lbs less 2200-2400 lb pin weight = 9100 lbs on the axles. Now divide by 4 tires = 2275 lb load per tire.
Those 2580 lb rated tires....5200 lb axles.... have plenty of reserve capacity. Wheels ??? Depends on how much load there rated to carry.
My 11200 lb trailer with 2200-2350 lb pin weight has 5200 lb axles. It came with ST225/75-15 D tires at 2580. I didn't use ST tires back then so I sold the 15" inchers and moved up to a 16" modular steel wheels and LT215/85-16 E at 2680 lbs per tire. Ran the first two sets at 50k+ and 55k+ and now have around 5500 miles on the 3rd set. No issues
Never saw such a mess as in those pictures. Good luck with a fix
Serious haulers (commercial) won't use them for that very reason.
The only aluminum wheels I used on my service trailers were modular type Alcoa. No cracking even at max loads spinning a tri axle GN trailer around on the center axle.
Math for axle/tires and wheels on your trailer will be 11500 lbs less 2200-2400 lb pin weight = 9100 lbs on the axles. Now divide by 4 tires = 2275 lb load per tire.
Those 2580 lb rated tires....5200 lb axles.... have plenty of reserve capacity. Wheels ??? Depends on how much load there rated to carry.
My 11200 lb trailer with 2200-2350 lb pin weight has 5200 lb axles. It came with ST225/75-15 D tires at 2580. I didn't use ST tires back then so I sold the 15" inchers and moved up to a 16" modular steel wheels and LT215/85-16 E at 2680 lbs per tire. Ran the first two sets at 50k+ and 55k+ and now have around 5500 miles on the 3rd set. No issues
Never saw such a mess as in those pictures. Good luck with a fix
