Any personal experience with Westlake Super ST tires?

Chuck&Gail wrote:
If you tell us the DOT code on the tires, we can tell you where they were manufactured

DOT code = 7DJT YCT.

However the tire "proudly" says "Made in China" ... how specific do you hope to get with the DOT code. ;)

JJBIRISH wrote:
would you trust a company that a few years back intentionally shipped LT tires with critical parts left out to save money, even though the contracted specifications included these parts… then failed to cooperate and supply information to help identify the brands and dates effected …
the same manufacture of those Westlake load range E LT tires is the same manufacture of the Westlake ST tire…
mfg. Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Company of China… left out critical parts of the tire and cheated on testing to fraudulently DOT certify Westlake, Telluride, Compass and YKS tires… shipping more than a half million of them to the US…

I wouldn’t… talk to your dealer… that would be a deal breaker for me…

Was this Cars Direct article the source of your input? Just wondering ... :) that opinion seems at odds with these reviews.

A Google search on Westlake tire recalls yields posts from several years back. Maybe the issue has been resolved now. About a month ago I saw the tire on an RV like the one I am buying had a manufacture date of "0813" so they are not old stock from back in the recall days. My actual trailer just came off the assembly line and is in GA so I can't tell what its tires dates are but I am assuming that they are at least the same vintage.

Also as an aside, I wonder how they compare to Goodyear Marathons which I have had no issues with and which have a date of "3511".

krobbe wrote:
Which RV manufacturer is putting these bombs on their trailers?

Flagstaff by Forest River.

wmoses wrote:
These are coming on my new RV. And they are made in ..... China!

My bet is the way this works is the RV company calls the wholesale distributer on the phone and says, "next month we need X number of tires in a given size and load rating, what have you got, and what is the price per unit ?"

And then they take whatever they get the best price break on. After all, if they save $5 per tire, that is $20 more profit per camper.
And then out here in the real world the end consumer gets to sort out the good from the bad. Bottom line is, it's down to "risk management" for the RV company. If, at the end of the year, some percentage of these products fail, and damge the trailer, even if the OE RV company has to pay out a few thousand for goodwill repairs, they may still come out far ahead on the bottom line because they saved so much money on the larger picture.
Risk management is a normal way of looking at these kinds of issues for all sorts of corporations. The company I am retired from had an entire department of folks that did exactly that: looked at all sorts of risks the company faced, and made recommendations on what the various costs would be whether we went with option "A" or option "B".

Which RV manufacturer is putting these bombs on their trailers?

If you tell us the DOT code on the tires, we can tell you where they were manufactured

would you trust a company that a few years back intentionally shipped LT tires with critical parts left out to save money, even though the contracted specifications included these parts… then failed to cooperate and supply information to help identify the brands and dates effected …
the same manufacture of those Westlake load range E LT tires is the same manufacture of the Westlake ST tire…
mfg. Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Company of China… left out critical parts of the tire and cheated on testing to fraudulently DOT certify Westlake, Telluride, Compass and YKS tires… shipping more than a half million of them to the US…

I wouldn’t… talk to your dealer… that would be a deal breaker for me…