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path1
Explorer
May 20, 2015

I never knew, balance trailer tires for mileage?

Wife is changing channels on the TV and comes across some DYI show. They are giving tips to maintain your vehicle. Not a TT but "vehicle". Eating dinner a couple hours later she says "we need t...
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JIMNLIN
Explorer III
May 22, 2015
I've wore out many sets of LT and P tires on trailers of all types. The LTs ran in the 50k-60k miles and P tires in the 35k-40k miles. Non were balanced.
Present 11200 lb trailer has around 48k miles on the 2nd set. Ran the 1st set for 55k miles and non were balanced.

Trailer hubs are not balanced. Now throw a wheel with a wad of weights on the hub and it may make any imbalance even worse.

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