Best Tires for Travel Trailer?

Only trouble is, there are no GY Marathons built in USA/Canada/New Zealand anymore.

GY shipped all of it's TT tire making business back to China.

RedRocket204 wrote:

jorge1958 wrote:
I have the Goodyear Marathons in the same size as yours and have had great luck with them. The thing on the Goodyears I was told was to make sure they were made in the USA. It says that right on the sidewall of the tires.

I wrapped my TT wheels with Marathons as well, mid 2010 but told the dealer that I will only accept tires that had Made in USA on them. 4000 miles and 3 years later, 0 problems.

This forum's members will make you believe the following will happen with all GY Marathons,

Francesca,
it appears to me that all of Michelin's Light Truck tires are S , T , or R speed rated including the load range E tires.
S = 112 mph , T = 118 mph , R = 106 mph .
I do not find any Michelin LT tire with the lowly L rating .

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/TireSearchResults.jsp?customSizeSearch=&width=245%2F&ratio=75&diameter=16

I think lowsuv has it right .

Lowsuv wrote:
just the facts ...
line by line explain to me

O.K...

I'll take this one:

Lowsuv wrote:

6. 99 % of LT tires are rated to 99 mph ( exception is G rated tires , etc. ) 99 % of ST tires are rated to 65 mph .
even if you are only going 64.999 mph a 99 mph rated tire has additional reserve capacity .

-In the first place, LT tires are excluded from all labeling requirements attached to P tires, including that for speed rating. That designation is purely voluntary on the part of LT tire manufacturers.

-The "speed rating" attached to LT's is 75 mph, and the vast majority adhere to that minimum, some mud/snow tires representing the majority of the exceptions. That's the standard used for testing for compliance. It was developed through cooperative effort between the industry and the NHTSB, and is reflected in the table given at Michelin's speed ratings page.

-That said:
Even those few LT's with higher speed ratings on the sidewall are NOT typically approved by their makers for the stated speeds when used on an RV of any kind, including trailers. One notable example of such derating is the well-known Michelin Rib- Q" rated (99 mph) if used on light trucks, but downrated to (the minimum) 75 mph if used on an RV/trailer.

jorge1958 wrote:
I have the Goodyear Marathons in the same size as yours and have had great luck with them. The thing on the Goodyears I was told was to make sure they were made in the USA. It says that right on the sidewall of the tires.

I wrapped my TT wheels with Marathons as well, mid 2010 but told the dealer that I will only accept tires that had Made in USA on them. 4000 miles and 3 years later, 0 problems.

This forum's members will make you believe the following will happen with all GY Marathons,

I have the Goodyear Marathons in the same size as yours and have had great luck with them. The thing on the Goodyears I was told was to make sure they were made in the USA. It says that right on the sidewall of the tires. I guess the early 2010s were made in china and there were problems.

This.

JJBIRISH wrote:

I recently completed an 8,000 towing miles trip accross the U.S. Installed the new Carlisle Radial Trail RH in Orlando,FL. The tires then traveled all the way up the East Coast to Maine-and then back out to Utah. Couple of key points-always checked inflation AND NEVER exceeded 60mph. The tires performed flawlessly. As a matter of fact, I never had to add air. So-that's first hand experience.

I also made observations that 75% of people towing exceed the recommended speed for ST tires. This is what I saw on the highways during my trip.

Well you have never heard me criticize Carlisle tires even once and have even defended them ( does that make me a Carlisle cheerleader to)… I have been towing trailers all my life, have never had a blow out on a ST tire and couldn’t begin to count the miles…

That doesn’t mean that I believe there is no problem with the ST tire… I still believe they fail far too often and while I do believe many of them are operator related it doesn’t explain the problem away…

IMHO their problem begins with low regulation that in turn becomes low quality as well… then the RV trailer industry short changing weights and the addition of the operator abuse and the problem is magnified many times…

And still I believe with everything I know and have read the Maxxis is the best ST tire available… can that change sure it can, I just haven’t seen anything that would change my opinion yet…

CKNSLS wrote:

JJBIRISH wrote:

I recently completed an 8,000 towing miles trip accross the U.S. Installed the new Carlisle Radial Trail RH in Orlando,FL. The tires then traveled all the way up the East Coast to Maine-and then back out to Utah. Couple of key points-always checked inflation AND NEVER exceeded 60mph. The tires performed flawlessly. As a matter of fact, I never had to add air. So-that's first hand experience.

I also made observations that 75% of people towing exceed the recommended speed for ST tires. This is what I saw on the highways during my trip.

Well you have never heard me criticize Carlisle tires even once and have even defended them ( does that make me a Carlisle cheerleader to)… I have been towing trailers all my life, have never had a blow out on a ST tire and couldn’t begin to count the miles…

That doesn’t mean that I believe there is no problem with the ST tire… I still believe they fail far too often and while I do believe many of them are operator related it doesn’t explain the problem away…

IMHO their problem begins with low regulation that in turn becomes low quality as well… then the RV trailer industry short changing weights and the addition of the operator abuse and the problem is magnified many times…

And still I believe with everything I know and have read the Maxxis is the best ST tire available… can that change sure it can, I just haven’t seen anything that would change my opinion yet…

We agree many are caused by operator error which includes excessive speed.

we do...

I am aware of RV's passing me as many as 3 or 4 times in the same day, or passing me like I was parked and while sitting under my awning for the night I see the same RV pulling into the CG… they must not only go fast but stop a lot (maybe to change tires)… I tow at about 60 to 62 all the time, but have caught myself getting a little higher a few times…

JJBIRISH wrote:

I recently completed an 8,000 towing miles trip accross the U.S. Installed the new Carlisle Radial Trail RH in Orlando,FL. The tires then traveled all the way up the East Coast to Maine-and then back out to Utah. Couple of key points-always checked inflation AND NEVER exceeded 60mph. The tires performed flawlessly. As a matter of fact, I never had to add air. So-that's first hand experience.

I also made observations that 75% of people towing exceed the recommended speed for ST tires. This is what I saw on the highways during my trip.

Well you have never heard me criticize Carlisle tires even once and have even defended them ( does that make me a Carlisle cheerleader to)… I have been towing trailers all my life, have never had a blow out on a ST tire and couldn’t begin to count the miles…

That doesn’t mean that I believe there is no problem with the ST tire… I still believe they fail far too often and while I do believe many of them are operator related it doesn’t explain the problem away…

IMHO their problem begins with low regulation that in turn becomes low quality as well… then the RV trailer industry short changing weights and the addition of the operator abuse and the problem is magnified many times…

And still I believe with everything I know and have read the Maxxis is the best ST tire available… can that change sure it can, I just haven’t seen anything that would change my opinion yet…

We agree many are caused by operator error which includes excessive speed.

I recently completed an 8,000 towing miles trip accross the U.S. Installed the new Carlisle Radial Trail RH in Orlando,FL. The tires then traveled all the way up the East Coast to Maine-and then back out to Utah. Couple of key points-always checked inflation AND NEVER exceeded 60mph. The tires performed flawlessly. As a matter of fact, I never had to add air. So-that's first hand experience.

I also made observations that 75% of people towing exceed the recommended speed for ST tires. This is what I saw on the highways during my trip.

Well you have never heard me criticize Carlisle tires even once and have even defended them ( does that make me a Carlisle cheerleader to)… I have been towing trailers all my life, have never had a blow out on a ST tire and couldn’t begin to count the miles…

That doesn’t mean that I believe there is no problem with the ST tire… I still believe they fail far too often and while I do believe many of them are operator related it doesn’t explain the problem away…

IMHO their problem begins with low regulation that in turn becomes low quality as well… then the RV trailer industry short changing weights and the addition of the operator abuse and the problem is magnified many times…

And still I believe with everything I know and have read the Maxxis is the best ST tire available… can that change sure it can, I just haven’t seen anything that would change my opinion yet…

JJBIRISH wrote:
CKNSLS

Man you know how to hurt a guy… cheerleader.... :B

There has not been anyone in the years I have been reading the forums that is more of a cheerleader than you… you cheer Chinese tire manufacturing and have recommended companies like Westlake, the worst example of the kind of company one the knowingly and intentionally built unsafe tire to dump in the US is not who I would want to deal with or would ever trust… Duro certainly the worst trailer tire I have ever owned or that others I know personally have ever had, and the infamous Carlisle that has possibly the worst reputation of any tire ever made… at least we can agree that some of that comes from market share, and I imagine their loss of market share and their shining reputation has prompted them to come out with their new tire and I do hope they keep copying Maxxis…

I recently completed an 8,000 towing miles trip accross the U.S. Installed the new Carlisle Radial Trail RH in Orlando,FL. The tires then traveled all the way up the East Coast to Maine-and then back out to Utah. Couple of key points-always checked inflation AND NEVER exceeded 60mph. The tires performed flawlessly. As a matter of fact, I never had to add air. So-that's first hand experience.

I also made observations that 75% of people towing exceed the recommended speed for ST tires. This is what I saw on the highways during my trip.

I know, I know it’s an all new tire and everyone that says they are junk just isn’t as smart or up to date as you are… but you have beat the same Carlisle drum forever… maybe you can point us to your evidence that the new Carlisle or any of the other followers are equal to or better than the Maxxis… you do posses this information don’t you

I recently completed an 8,000 mile trip across the USA. I installed 4 Carlisle Radial Trail RH in Orlando FL. They traveled all the way up the East Coast to Maine, and then back out to Utah. They performed flawlessly. Even though I checked the pressure before heading out, I never had to add any additional air to the tires. In addition, I NEVER exceeded 60mph. However, 75% of RVers towing did exceed the publish speed limits for ST tires that I observed. But I am sure they are not the ones that come on here complaining about their JUNK ST tires. Are they?