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TWZMYJP
Explorer
Jan 26, 2018

Trailer Tires: High Quality 16's vs. Swapping to 17.5's

I apologize if this has already been covered and/or beat to death, but I wasn't able to find much using the search function. Please direct me to any existing threads and close this one if it makes mo...
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gmw_photos
Explorer
Feb 09, 2018
Over the recent years that I have replaced ST tires with LT, I have found all the ST's I took off, when feeling the sidewall of an unmounted ST, they were loose and floppy.

I spin my trailers around wherever I have to, loaded or not. I have no way of knowing what is going on internally in the sidewalls of my tires. Maybe they are screaming bloody murder ?

What I do know is after all this use, none of my LT's have failed me. That's all I really care about.

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