Best Tires for Travel Trailer?

travel4family wrote:
HOLY MOLY PEOPLE!
Ok, I really tried to follow and absorb all this - this was a lot for a fairly new RVer whose knowledge of my car tires is limited anyway.

We found we had a bulge in our trailer tire about 4500 miles into our 5000 mile trip driving home on a Saturday night / Sunday in July. We put on the spare and came home and now I'm looking to replace the main and spare tires (who knew brand new were junk tires- until now). Yes it was hot coming across NE, SD, IA and IL in July. We're talking about Texas next year so we'll see heat and mileage again. I think that makes us semi-serious RVers- not full timers but we don't stay within an hour of home either. We have a very lightweight trailer - 3000 pounds loaded at the local grain elevator (technically can be up to 3500).

I think the advice that's agreed upon is:
1) watch the speed limit (which while we weren't excessivly over running anywhere from 60-70, I'm not sure how we were supposed to know as newbies that ST tires are rated for 65 - I've looked in everything we were given - nothing!)
2) get tires that together are rated for weight
3) make sure they're nylon capped (what is that?)
4) get made in the USA
5) get ST if you'll run the speed limit and LT if you'll run a few over (as I said, we're not doing 80 but sure we'll hit 70going at times).
6) LT may or may not fit our rims??

Be gentle, please. I don't have an opinion I'm trying to wrap up what all I read here to inherit one.
Thank you as always,
Trave4Family

It's really not as difficult as some folks are trying to make it.
And if you decide to change from ST to LT tires, there are several choices in both 14" and 15", and of course many choices in 16".

If you provide your trailer's tire size, then specific advice could be offered.