Other reasons ST tires fail??
There have been soooo many threads and posts on ST tires here about what the best one is and why they fail sometimes. I was just reading one of those "threads from heck" - ST tire thread from heck......
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LarryJM wrote:I had access to race care suspension setup scales when I had my previous TT. A seperate scale for each wheel.Lantley wrote:
In the end my experience has been ST tires are inferior. Had all kinds of issues. They ALL magically went away when I upgraded to LT tires. There are many people that tell the same tale. Problems,blowouts,flats with ST's changed to LT tires and all problems solved.
One of the issues that still exist are the tires are marginally rated. The idea that all 4 tires carry equal weight is part of the fallacy. One tire is often overloaded and over stressed from the start. Floorplans are not balance by weight. Why do we expect the tires to carry equal weight?
ST tires are built to marginal/inferior standards vs. and LT. ST tires are not built to a standard that entails transporting humans. They are built and regulated to a cargo only standard. In the end they are inferior. LT's are built for passenger carrying vehicles and are simply a more reliable tire built with better quality control as a result.
LT tire upgrades continue to resolve the blowout issue.
I'm not so sure one can just assume like you have done that there is significant unequal loading on tires on a tandem axle trailer especially side to side. Unless the trailer is being towed in a non level configuration front to back there should be minimal differences in the front and back tires on the same side. As to side to side I have actually weighed my trailer fully loaded side to side and there was only a 50lb difference in the weights and that is for a totaltwo axle weight of close to 7,000lbs. I would think a better assumption for the majority of trailers is they are designed to have a fairly even side to side wt. distribution unless you have significantly modified the insides. I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but I think one can safely assume that there is a fairly good side to side balance in the axle weights for a factory configured TT/5er.
Larry
I don't recall the numbers, but do remember being surprised at how much they differed.
Even if the TT left the factory with perfectly distributed weights on all tires....That all goes out the window when the consumer starts loading it.
Even in use, water leaves the fresh tank and ends up in the black or grey tank. depending on just where the tanks are located, this alone can throw the weight distribution off.
