Advice on tires, towing and Baja please

CALandLIN wrote:

patperry2766 wrote:

CALandLIN wrote:

tomcoz wrote:

I HAD (notice that word) a set of Kuhmo 857's, and I drank their KoolAid about the higher load capacity and speed rating. I thought I had found the holy grail of 14" tires, until I had a blowout with less than 6K miles on a 2 year old set. Religiously checked the air pressure every AM, never consistently drove above 65 MPH and kept the tires covered when not in use. Luckily Discount Tire gave me my money back after I showed them the receipt for the tire I had to buy somewhere in Wyoming....the damage to the trailer from the blown tire came out of my pocket.

Did you discover the cause of the failure?

Never did.

Was going about 60 and all of a sudden it just let go. The tread wrapped around the axle so bad that it took me over an hour just to untangle it and I literally had to cur thru the tread with a pair of wire cutters. I had to do it on highway shoulder that gave me less than 2 feet bubble to work without being in the actual highway...and not every driver is courteous enough to switch lanes to allow a safety buffer.

I've done a lot of things that have put my life in jeopardy, and changing a tire on the side of the road ranks up there pretty highly!!

Bit of advise....when you check tire pressure on the trailer, every so often check the spare...nothing worse than having to use an almost flat spare tire.