TIRES?????
Here we go again. as I posted here before I was having my dealer repack my wheels when they discovered a bad tire. Carlyle tires he told me they were the worst tire I could have on a trailer. Today ...
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CKNSLS wrote:RVUSA wrote:abc40kids wrote:
As for the bass anglers and Carlisle tires, I'm guessing it was more about the money and great deal / maybe free tires to go along with it.
I'm betting 35,000 miles a year without failure isn't a bad thing either. That's was 35,000 on each trailer, not all combined.
Finally made it back from my round the country tour on The Carlisle Radial RH's. 2 Years, no failures, problems, or even a single pound of air lost. They never get hot and I drive 64.
Sure wished they had them around when I hauled my boats to the keys.
PS. Been fun bantering with you guys, but I am back to Class A's. I just couldn't adapt to facing backwards in the 5th. In the A, I tended to face down the road, and in the 5th I was always with my back to that direction and it just kind of bugged me.
So see ya!
There you go Chris!
Lets look at RVUSA setup. Montana 2880RL 5th wheel with GVWR of 12340. Lets be conservative and say he has only 2340 pounds of pin weight. That leaves 10,000 pounds of weight on the axles or 2500 per tire. the Carlisle LRE ST235/80R16 is rated to 3520 each, so he has 1020 lbs excess capacity per tire, if that is the tire he is using. I would expect that the RH would do fairly well under those light load conditions, as tires have almost 30 percent excess capacity. Hardly a test that has much meaning to much larger and heavier trailer that have the same tire with 2 or 3 percent excess capacity.
Maybe you could post similar information on your trailer type, model, loading and tire rating for comparison?
Or maybe someone with GAWRings of 6750 or 7K will chime in. Chris
