Goodyear Marathon load d trailer tires

A flat tire is a flat tire. If you run over a nail etc. it is going down regardless of brand.

If we were to condemn every company that had a product recall or problem, we would not be driving GM products because of their deadly ignition switches or those Ford products because they burst into flame when hit from the rear. Do not forget all those death bombs with decapitating air bags; and the list goes on and on and on ad infinitum. No company is perfect.

Regardless of the opinions of the self-appointed experts, the name brand and not so name brand have a pretty good track record; particularly when properly used and cared for.

I have them on my Outdoor Rv Blackstone. Run at Max psi of 65. Weighed the trailer and we are 9,000 on the axles and rated for 10,500 on the tires and axles at at about 90 percent. We stay well with in the speed rating of the tires and travel at 60 mph so am comfortable. As soon as i see wear will change to maxis m8008 10 ply e rated tires though. Available at Les Schwab.

Some say good some say bad. On my TT I had 1 blow out, and the previous owner had one go out on him. The posted pressure to run on these were 35 PSI. I swapped to Maxxis and have been very happy. Plus the maxis have a 50 PSI rating.

I did check the pressure before leaving on the trip I got the blowout and had not hit any debris that I know of.

No better or worse than any other ST tire.Have 10 of them on 2 trailers I just replace after 5 yrs or if they blow, as one did a few months ago and Discount Tire replaced it as it was only 3 yrs old.I use only load range E.

When you post a question like yours the same tired old hackneyed responses come out about how bad Goodyear Marathons are.

Ignore them, they are just axe grinding.

Look at the numbers; over the years Goodyear has produced millions of Marathon tires.

....and the NHTSA has a little over a hundred complaints?

statistically speaking that is a near perfect record. The percentages are so small as to be completely insignificant.

I have a set of GY Marathons that came on my USED travel trailer. They date from 2011. Those tires have been used before me and I have put over 10,000 miles on them and have had no problems. They have most of their tread and still look new.

I have run GY Marathons on 2 different TT for the past 10-15 years and the only time I had one blow out was after hitting a hunk of metal on the road. Everyone here always preaches the 80% rule when it comes to towing capacity as a "try not to exceed" measure. I believe that to be true when it comes to tires also. I try to purchase tires with enough load rating so if the camper is maxed out, the tires are only 80% of capacity including the tongue weight if possible. If you take a look at the numbers, I'll bet the recommended tires are barely adequate, and this does not account of uneven loading. (axles too for that matter). Using this method leaves me plenty of cushion to account for impacts to the tires while traveling and uneven loading of the trailer. So far, so good....

Adam

Although I only had one tire issue (not blowout) in 20,000+ miles on two different sets of GY Marathons, my next set of tires will be these. Just found out about these tires last week on another forum.
http://www.maxxis.com/catalog/tire-227-bravo-series-ue-168-n#sizes

donn0128

Pronounced Ore-gun

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Garbage. Typical ST garbage tires

Don,Lorri,Max (The Rescue Flat Coat Retriever?)
The Other Dallas

Not so! Took my travel trailer equipped with Goodyear Marathons to Alaska this year driving on some very poor roads (10,350 miles) no problems, still look like new!

real4u2c wrote:
Anybody using these tires on larger TT, if so can you explain to me the pro and con of this tire? Thanks

The Marathons do not have a good service recond when we look across the trailer industry (rvs and non rvs). A google shows this so its not just rv owners who have issues with this tire.

Check out http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchSafetyIssues?prodType=T for just the Marathons that owners reported tire complaints to NHTSA safecar.gov.
Safecar.gov shows 123 complaints on the Marathon ST.

I would look for a ST tire with a better overall reliability service record from across the trailer world....not just 2-3 comments on a RV website.

I see PJ and Starlite trailer manufacturers are using Provider ST radial tires from Taskmaster. They've been using them for several years and their commercial trailer customers report non of the usual ST tire issues so far. They should work for a RV trailer also.

Happy with our Marathons. It's all about how you properly treat ST tires.

You should also look at the load capacity rating of the tires vs the actual TT weight fully loaded up. RV manufacturers frequently size the tires so there is little to no reserve capacity. We ordered LRD tires on our new TT instead of LRC which it would have come with standard.

Just for fun I asked the salesman at our dealer, who's been in the biz for a very long time, why anyone would order LRD Marathons. His answer was "I dunno, not many ask for them"... :R

Go to RVtiresafety.com for tons of excellent info. on ST tires.