One of our 19' travel trailer tires is wearing unevenly and the RV repair place says we need an alignment of both axles. THis will cost about $$400-$500 so I'd like to know just how often we should have this done on a trailer. We had new beefed up axles put on the trailer about 4,000 miles ago and do not overload the trailer. We drive at 55-60mph and keep an eye on the tire pressure and lug nuts.Thank you

Just because the axles were new does not mean they were properly arched/aligned once installed on your trailer. Call around to some heavy duty truck/trailer shops and price out alignments from them. The RV dealer price seems pretty high. A couple hundred dollars would be more in line.BTW have you jumped a curb? Also what brand of tires do you have. There has been lots of reports of cheap tires creating all sorts of problems.

I would think that one alignment would be good enough for the life of the trailer unless you hit a lot of curbs. Like you I also found that shops seem to want $400 to do an alignment. This includes some heating and bending which I'm not real keen on having done. For the time being I'll let mine wear tires funny as they seem to need to be replaced due to age long before they wear out.

opnspaces wrote:I would think that one alignment would be good enough for the life of the trailer unless you hit a lot of curbs. Like you I also found that shops seem to want $400 to do an alignment. This includes some heating and bending which I'm not real keen on having done. For the time being I'll let mine wear tires funny as they seem to need to be replaced due to age long before they wear out.I agree the tires get replaced due to age vs wear. I hated to replaced the last set of tires they only had about 25,000 miles on them with lots of tread left but wer developing large cracks in the sidewall due to age (5 years).

It doesn't sound like they were alligned when they were replaced. I had our campers axles removed and spacers put in so I could run 16" LT tires. All this was done and the axles alligned at the same time. We have not had any odd tire ware or blowouts since.

had our Salem trailer for 2 years, tires were wearing pretty bad..bought two new tires and aligned the axles (250 at a spring place here in town), took it to two trips...no rough roads but did take it over a couple of speed bumps at really low speed. Checked the alignment...50 bucks..and was ok....one trip, hit a pot hole...took it back, checked it, 250 more to align.....sadly does not take much.and yeah 400 seems high...do you have a trailer, spring place around you?? lots cheaper.

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opnspaces
Navigator III
May 23, 2013
I would think that one alignment would be good enough for the life of the trailer unless you hit a lot of curbs. Like you I also found that shops seem to want $400 to do an alignment. This includes some heating and bending which I'm not real keen on having done. For the time being I'll let mine wear tires funny as they seem to need to be replaced due to age long before they wear out.
donn0128
Explorer II
May 23, 2013
Just because the axles were new does not mean they were properly arched/aligned once installed on your trailer. Call around to some heavy duty truck/trailer shops and price out alignments from them. The RV dealer price seems pretty high. A couple hundred dollars would be more in line.
BTW have you jumped a curb? Also what brand of tires do you have. There has been lots of reports of cheap tires creating all sorts of problems.

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