first blowout

Huntindog wrote:

Ralph wrote:
I run ST's on a small fleet of equipment / tool trailers and would not consider anything else. Out of 6 to as many as 10 of those trailers on the road at a given time over 15 years, I think we may have had 10 or 12 flats in at least a half a million miles. That's saying a lot with some of the dummies we have pulling those things around at times, good help is hard to find. Every one was due to picking up a nail or screw at a site or some other type of damage we brought on ourselves. When we need tires on those trailers they go down to the local tire guy and he puts on whatever ST's he has in stock, usually imported I would Imagine. I don't waste time monitoring what they are as I am not afflicted with RVFOCTD (RV forum obsessive compulsive tire disorder). I do know we have some Carlisles on two trailers right now, that I personally towed to a site last week.

Those are the only kind of trailers that STs should probably be run on. A blowout will not cause the kind of catastrophic damage on them that it commonly does on a RV. So you can go cheap, with little consequences if it doesn't work out.

Maybe, but from what I've seen personally when RV's are severely damaged from a flat tire (I prefer to not say blowout) the driver went a few miles or more at speed before realizing the tire had shredded to pieces. They usually notice when they see the debris trailing off. I've fixed a couple trailers for others. If the manufacturers would at least use some more substantial materials we would not have a damage issue. My 2017 Rockwood has ABS plastic wheel wells. It also had exposed raw luan plywood (the outer lamination bottom edge)which would of taken the water off the wheel soaking it up like a sponge, but that's another story.


That does not apply to a single axle rig I suppose. But as I said I have never had a flat on an ST that I could not prove was due to something other than loss of pressure due to a puncture or other road hazard, curb hit, etc.

Maybe just luck?

All I could afford wrote:
Ralphie, I will try to get the Manufacture code off my own Westlake trailer tires this weekend, just to compare. Now that I'm thinking about it I believe my father-in-law has a pair of West Lakes on his Honda accord and I may see him this weekend as well. If so I will try to get the code off of those as well. They are probably manufacture date of close to 10 years ago

LOL, they must be **** good tires if 10 years old?