The new ST tires. Fact or fiction (marketing)
It is good that some manufacturers seem to be stepping up the quality of their ST tire offerings.. And even better that many of the proponents of ST tires on this forum are welcoming these new tires w...
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Today at my local dealer I had the opportunity to examine 3 tires - Goodyear Marathon LR C, Carlisle HD LR D, and Goodyear Endurance LR D. All brand new, unmounted, ST 205/75 R14. When bearing down as much as I could with my own body weight both the Marathon and Carlisle collapsed noticeably, the Endurance barely at all ... no question the Endurance has a much stiffer sidewall. Of course the Marathon has now been discontinued so between the Carlisle HD and Goodyear Endurance the only advantage I see to the former is it's noticeably lower price, I presume because it's manufactured overseas vs the Endurance which is manufactured in the US. I now have 1000 km on my recently installed Endurance tires so this test, though hardly scientific, helps explains why my trailer tows so much better now than it did previously with the stock off shore LR C tires.
