Need new tires...help?
I am coming up on year 6 with my factory installed Goodyear Marathon tires. They still look great but I am worried about a blowout after reading about it all over the internet and the dangers of trai...
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guidry wrote:
Every newbie who comes on this forum should be advised to immediately, upon buying a new trailer, get new tires and throw away the junk the manufacturers put on! Manufacturers get bids for everything, tires included. The lowest bid gets to install all the tires. Does anyone think the lowest bid is the best and safest tire!?
I had a new Open Range (now Highland Ridge) and luckily had a TPMS when the alarm sounded during a long trip. We only had less than a year and a half and 12,000 miles on these tires.
I spoke to the VP of Open Range and pleaded to get rid of the **** tires they put on their trailers so new buyers don't experience what most of us here have. To this day, I am sure they still do business with Lions Head (the supplier of tires).
Best thing to do is get reputable quality tires by doing research and a TPMS.
With all due respect this is the Most irresponsible piece of advice that one could imagine and based not on facts but heresay and myth.
All tires sold in the US are made to international specifications to meet DOT standards. The trailer manufacturer specs the tires that are right for the load of the trailer WITH MARGIN in most cases. (Anything else would leave them open to numerous law suits)
That spec is put out to bid. The price of tire is not the only consideration, often shipping and on time delivery will take precedence.
Telling all newbies to suspect the tires that come on their trailer is irresponsible, wasteful and terrible economics.
Please stop this mindless repetition of tire myth that has NO basis in fact or foundation.
