maxxis trailer tires

ktmrfs wrote:

CKNSLS wrote:
If he put 10,000 miles on them and ran over 65mph-then the tires were at the end of their useful life....even if they were the mighty "Mx" brand.

Of course, if these were Carlisle everybody were be on here saying what Chinese junk they were.

huhh????? I regularly get 30K+ miles out of a set of Maxxis trailer tires on my two trailers. Same with the OEM Towmasters I had. Course it usually only takes me 3 years to get to that mileage.

That said, having 4 tires fail so close to each other in that few miles and age, is disturbing and disapointing regardless of brand.

Well I don't find multiple failures after one issue to be surprising. I'm in the camp that if you have a tire failure where you have overloaded the other tire on that side for even like 100 miles or so, you should replace both tires on that side. Once a tire has been damaged whether it be from overloading, excessive speed, or hitting a pothole then you have lost the capacity and reliability of that tire or set of tires on that side of the TT and they should be replaced in pairs in most cases. All these issues is where the couple of hundred dollars in a TPMS is worth it's weight in GOLD.

As a side note several months ago I replace all my tires and rims with Aluminum rims and Kumho 857 tires in the 195R14 size and while the jury is out after having close to 800 miles on them I think I made a good decision on the change. I replace a perfectly good set of GY Marathons which I have been running on all my trailers since 1995 w/o a single issue and the reason for the replacement was that I just wanted fancier wheels and decided to go with the "FULL MONTY" so to speak and do the tires too. The Kumhos give me a little more reserve capacity since I was already withing about 100lbs of max capacity on the GY 205R75x14 STs that they replaced and are not 65mph limited even tho I don't tow that fast to begin with.