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Vintage465
Nomad
Oct 22, 2017

Goodyear Endurance

Well,
I borrowed a tilt/flatbed trailer to haul a car from California to Nashville Tennessee and bring one back. Prior to leaving I did quite a bit of "road ready-ing" on the trailer. I thought about replacing all tires as they were Chinese Load Range E tires that were about 3-4 years old. Against my better judgement I aired them all up to 75psig, put two spares in the pickup and took off with the Yukon on the rig. Changed the first on 120 miles down the road. The tire place said the other three were in good shape and did not recommend changing them. By Kingman AZ the second one shredded. Swap a spare on to it. An hour later the third one shredded. In Flagstaff I put 4 new 225/75R-15 Goodyear Endurance tires on @ 80psig in each. Smooth sailing the all the way to Nashville and all the way home. I suppose if I took off with two spare tires expecting the worst.............I should have known I needed to replace the tires! I will be replacing the Goodyear Marathons on my CreekSide with these Endurance Tires
  • profdant139's avatar
    profdant139
    Explorer II
    Oct 22, 2017
    We now have over ten thousand miles on our Endurance tires -- so far, so good. These are Load Range D on a very small trailer, and I do not go over 62 mph. So yes, this is overkill. But I never again want to experience a blowout on a single axle trailer. Once is enough.
  • TBammer's avatar
    TBammer
    Explorer
    Oct 22, 2017
    My research into these is that they are made here in the USA and are the replacement brand for the Marathon. They sound pretty skookum to me and will be ordering them for the trailer.
  • Jim2007's avatar
    Jim2007
    Explorer
    Oct 22, 2017
    Hi.. I put on Goodyear endurance tire2 on my 5th wheel this spring.. I have about 4000 miles on them now and I like them at this point. Jim A.
  • Vintage465's avatar
    Vintage465
    Nomad
    Oct 22, 2017
    The set four I had installed in Flagstaff took me to Nashville and back to California @ 75mph for just about 5000 miles. Smooth sailing!
  • time2roll's avatar
    time2roll
    Nomad
    Oct 22, 2017
    Mine have close to 5000 miles this year also. No issues.
    First year is easy. Year 4 to 6+ are the tough ones.
  • JIMNLIN's avatar
    JIMNLIN
    Explorer III
    Oct 23, 2017
    time2roll wrote:
    Mine have close to 5000 miles this year also. No issues.
    First year is easy. Year 4 to 6+ are the tough ones.

    Yeah...they have been out for about a year now so 4-6 years and 25k-35k miles of trouble free service will tell their story.
  • Fireballsocal's avatar
    Fireballsocal
    Explorer
    Oct 23, 2017
    I thought like any (ST) trailer tire. these should be replaced at 4 years. Am I wrong?
  • path1's avatar
    path1
    Explorer
    Oct 23, 2017
    My local Discount tire and grocery store is in same shopping center. So I bug them often:) So far since this last April they have installed 22 and zero blow outs or other problems, so far. But they haven't been out on the market for a year old yet. I'm thinking about getting some next spring. I do like Maxxis better, but they are hard to get on the road. Just my opinion. Lot cheaper tires available, but as the saying goes "you get what you pay for", atleast in theory. I have room for 16 inchers (lot more choices) but the wheels I want brought price to around $850.00. So staying with 15 inch for now and keeping an eye on how many tire failures my tire store gets.
  • RedRocket204's avatar
    RedRocket204
    Explorer
    Oct 23, 2017
    JIMNLIN wrote:
    time2roll wrote:
    Mine have close to 5000 miles this year also. No issues.
    First year is easy. Year 4 to 6+ are the tough ones.

    Yeah...they have been out for about a year now so 4-6 years and 25k-35k miles of trouble free service will tell their story.


    I know you said just about a year now, which is not far off, but I had my eye on them and was only able to get them late last March, some of the first out there. My Endurance tires were marked with manu date of March 2017. So they haven't quite been around a year yet but getting closer.
  • babock's avatar
    babock
    Explorer
    Oct 23, 2017
    I was considering the Endurance but went with the Maxxis. Will see in 5 years how the Endurance tires are doing for the first set of people that tried them.

    Even my Chinese tires lasted a year...year is not enough time to know how the Endurance tires will survive.

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