FastEagle wrote:
ExRocketScientist wrote:
I think I may understand what FE is refering to, but I need a confirmation. Bear with me please:
My daughter is learning to drive. We practice parking a lot. There are some parking lots with a lot of my sidewalls left on the curbs. You can see the scuff marks on the sides of my tires -- but it also leaves white concrete residue on my sidewalls. When I was running Goodyear Marathons on the fiver, I would get similar scuff marks, but they would be all the way around the entire circumference of the tire but not in a position where they would be if it were curb contact. It would be from the edge of the tread to about 1" around the sidewall toward the bead. There would also not be any concrete dust sticking to this.
Is this the scrubbing action that FE is talking about?
Or was that perhaps from traveling on gravel roads?
The axle spacing on our dual axle trailer is 33”. When on concrete or asphalt surfaces the tires on the trailer will start leaving a black streak of rubber right in the pavement when the degree of turn gets around 30 degrees. When the degree of turn gets beyond 45 degrees it becomes possible to go and pick-up small chunks of rubber that has ground off the tires during the turn. That’s the kind of tire scrubbing I’m talking about.
FastEagle
Maybe you need better tires if your current ones can not take it. I have to turn around at the end of our street with a long bed std cab TV and turn as sharp as the truck will turn at make it. I have been doing this from June of 2004 to present and have not experienced a tire issue. Last set were on the ground for 6.5 years and 40K+ miles and had 65-70 tread remaining. Sold them for 200 bucks on CL.
Going forward a trailer tire should not have an issue following the turning radius of the tow vehicle. Backing into a jack-knife is a different issue.
FYI, a bag of sand to throw on the pavement helps grease turns if your tires can not take it!
Chris
