Tires- LT or ST
TIre recommendations? We are towing 8500# travel trailer. We’ve had numerous blowouts with China bombs over the years, partly due to Texas heat and high speeds. We are over the blow outs and need some...
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What’s coincidental is I can relate to Huntindog and ST tires popping like popcorn in Phoenix in the summer and a few years later in Colorado. There was one constant among all of them. They were the early-mid 2000s GY Marathins.
I suppose I have an equal distaste for those as he does for trailer tires in general.
Although of the half dozen or so “blowouts” I know for sure 3 of them were due to low pressure and one of them, the 3rd one of the day lol and only went like 70 miles round trip to the lake, was a box of nails in the road pulling back into our subdivision after 3 fun filled hours of tire swapping at the lake and going to Walmart on a Sat afternoon for anything that would fit on the rims.
The other common theme was all of the suspect Marathons had spent about 4 years sitting out in the Phx/Vegas sun basically year round.
The low pressure issues was the guy who was towing our new boat up to us and “forgot” to fill the tires. When I brought him a spare 100miles from our house after 400miles on the road, 1 was at zero and in pieces and the other three were at 30-35psi on a hot sunny day.
So, I never bought Marathons, I haven’t run sun baked tires and I continue to make sure they are not running low on air.
Still, the recommendation to do whatever necessary even if impractical to get LT tires on basically any trailer in any conditions is just over the top.
I suppose I have an equal distaste for those as he does for trailer tires in general.
Although of the half dozen or so “blowouts” I know for sure 3 of them were due to low pressure and one of them, the 3rd one of the day lol and only went like 70 miles round trip to the lake, was a box of nails in the road pulling back into our subdivision after 3 fun filled hours of tire swapping at the lake and going to Walmart on a Sat afternoon for anything that would fit on the rims.
The other common theme was all of the suspect Marathons had spent about 4 years sitting out in the Phx/Vegas sun basically year round.
The low pressure issues was the guy who was towing our new boat up to us and “forgot” to fill the tires. When I brought him a spare 100miles from our house after 400miles on the road, 1 was at zero and in pieces and the other three were at 30-35psi on a hot sunny day.
So, I never bought Marathons, I haven’t run sun baked tires and I continue to make sure they are not running low on air.
Still, the recommendation to do whatever necessary even if impractical to get LT tires on basically any trailer in any conditions is just over the top.
