Carlisle Radial Trail RH Trailer Tire???

did your trailer came with 205/75R15 load range C ?
you will gain a significant advantage by upgrading to 225 /75 R15 load range E

load capacity rating in pounds is more important than brand .
you will gain enough in reserve load capacity that the improvement in recent Carlisle's will be a bonus , but not critical .
i did that upgrade for the same reason .
i want to play when i want to play .
no rv or boat trailer failures since upgrading .

Up grading load range is a good idea...but going from C's to E's is probably not necessary.....and make sure your wheels/rims are even rated to handle that much pressure...(going from 50 psi to 80 psi).

I'll wait awhile before I jump on the NEW Carlisle ST tires bandwagon.
Dealer can HIGHLY recommend them and say this and that, but the proof for me is what everyday RV'er say about their experience with them over time..

Not closed minded to other options and even welcome them...but right now my Maxxis is a proven performer.

Yes! The trailer did come with 205-75-15-C's. The next size up is 215-75-15's but, I found the 225-75-15-D's or E's fit very well & actually look more appropriate for the size of the trailer. No failures with the larger sizes, either.

All this was prompted by my friend with a Nash 24-A that had a blowout back east & replaced 4 tires & put the best, old tire on the rear bumper as the spare. By the time he got back to Phoenix, the SPARE had blown out on the sidewall & the tire wasn't even on the ground (early, Goodyear Marathon's).

That was enough for me to start doing some research.

What I found was that many tires had steel/polyester belts that when heated up, allowed the tire belts to expand & contract regularly. The new designs introduced an outer tread ply belt of nylon between the steel/polyester belts on the tread side. The nylon does not expand when heated & worked as a "girdle" holding the other ply's in their proper place. Seemed to help the longevity of the tires. The NEW Goodyear Marathon's had the letter "S" enclosed in a circle stamped on the sides of the tires & the addition of NYLON Belt in the area the showed what the tire was made of.

Joe F.

DOWNTHEROAD,
It has been recommended to me that the E's have a tougher carcass & for about $10.00 per tire over the cost of D's I thought that might be a good idea, especially, travelling the roads of Alaska for the summer. I do drive on forest dirt roads in eastern AZ. quite a bit & like the idea of a tough carcass.

My wheels do allow for a maximum of 75 LBS. tire pressure as marked on the wheel next to the fill valve.

I was seriously thinking of the Maxxis M8008's which, I had also heard were very good tires. However, there is a thread on this site of Maxxis failures, which, scares me a bit.

Joe F.

once a snake always a snake carlie has a bad rep, I,m not going to be a test pilot for them. tire dealer says there great???? who told him? the carlie salesman??

You can probably find a thread about any tire brand and failures. However, Maxxis is BY FAR the best reputation for ST's against failures, but they are not perfect.

I installed Maxxis 6 1/2 yrs ago (did not upgrade size or rating) and to date no issues whatsoever.

Problem with going up two sizes and two ratings is your trailer will have to absorb more shock.

You money your choice, but you do not want to accept a dealer's word. They are in business to sell tires, especially the tires they have on hand.

I have those junk tires on my BigTex flat bed trailer. I was told the same thing by Discount Tire. The tire is junk and that is all there is to it and the tread peels like an orange. As the tires come apart I am replacing them with a commercial truck tire. Within the last year I have had 6 Carlisle tires come apart on my flat beds . Discount claimed my trailers were out of alinement. So I had that checked on two of my trailers and they were fine. I am stuck with the junk on my BigTex and discount will not warranty the tires anymore. The damage to the BigTex trailer was some wires and mud flaps because it is all steel.

My 5th wheel had the same junk tires on it too. I peeled the tread on it too but was lucky the damage was not bad. Yesterday I bought new tires. I was going to put light truck tires on my 5th wheel but I was advised by a good friend who owns an RV repair shop not to. I went with a trailer tire with a "G" rating.

I was told that all trailer tires only have a 65 MPH rating on them. I looked online at Firestone, Goodyear and Others but found no rating listed. The tire stores I talked with said they have been hearing the same thing but do not know where the info comes from. Stating that the tires have to meet federal DOT requirements and have to be 50 state legal and most other states ( I am in California ) let trailers go 70 to 85 MPH legally..

So now we will see if I made the right choice but I know moving away from Carlisle was a good thing.

JMHO

Joseph Fihn wrote:
DOWNTHEROAD,
It has been recommended to me that the E's have a tougher carcass & for about $10.00 per tire over the cost of D's I thought that might be a good idea, especially, travelling the roads of Alaska for the summer. I do drive on forest dirt roads in eastern AZ. quite a bit & like the idea of a tough carcass.

My wheels do allow for a maximum of 75 LBS. tire pressure as marked on the wheel next to the fill valve.

I was seriously thinking of the Maxxis M8008's which, I had also heard were very good tires. However, there is a thread on this site of Maxxis failures, which, scares me a bit.

Joe F.

Joe,
Since your wheels will handle them, go with the E's. (that's what I did.) It will give you excellent reserve.

I may be looking at the wrong thread, but the Maxxis thread was about a guy who's tires failed....but they were 7-8 years old. He said he got great service from them and was going to replace them with another set of Maxxis..

Have a great trip and adventure on your Alaska run.

I'm looking at tire replacement, too and have visited Discount Tires for a quote. My impression is that they make more money from Carlisle than Maxxis. They can order the Maxxis for you.
My understanding is that Carlisle has reformulated the materials and changed the construction (including belts). How much is market-speak and how much is to the benefit of the tire is unknown to me. I'm always leery of promoted new benefits to any product. How much better is "New Tide" over the original product, so to speak.
As Lowsuv posted, an increase in load range is going to trump brand or market-speak. The anecdotal information can be skewed, also. I have no idea about how someone else's tire is used--speed, inflation, alignment, suspension, weights, etc. are different for everyone.

My buddy installed a new set of the Carlisle 225/75/15 E's last year. He told me there were completely new design and I did verify that they were stamped with "Made in USA" on the sidewalls. He hasn't run them enough to evaluate them but they look like a good tire.