New Trailer Tires - And THANKS

CapriRacer wrote:

CaLBaR wrote:
Just for my own curiosity what does your data show on the new Carlisle Radial Trial HD? I had these on the previous trailer for about a year without any issues and have not notice any failures mentioned on the forums so just wondering if these tires are better now too.

Rob

Sorry, but I don't any data.

First, my experience was with a major tire manufacturer and we only tracked RETURNS for THAT manufacturer. I retired 7 years ago, so not only do I not have current data on ANY current tire, I don't have ANY data at all. What I have been doing is looking at reports on this and other forums and the one that stands out is the Goodyear Endurance. It's the only one I know of where I can track when it was introduced AND there have been no reports of failures. I am sure that eventually there will be a failure reported because consumers don't know how to discern the difference between a road hazard related failure and a failure caused by the design. (Please note: My experience says that by far and away, it is the design - that is, the materials used and where they are placed - that results in failures and not defects - things that aren't supposed to be there and things that aren't there that are supposed to be.)

There are failures of the Goodyear Endurance a few actually. Go to all the Facebook RV pages and you will see pics of them there where the treads have separated from the sidewalls completely the entire way around the tire. I have a few of those pics saved to my phone. I have yet to see a failure on a Carlise Radial HD though...but that may be because they both came out around the same time the Carlise just a few months sooner and everyone is jumping on the made in America Endurance.