Travel Trailer Tires

I went with good year endurance and bumped the load rating up to the 80 psi one. Knock on wood 4 years no issues.

Currently using Goodyear Endurance that are 4 yeas old. Goodyear warrants them for 6 - time will tell.

Carlisle Trail HD, excellent tires and no complaints.

Goodyear endurance on both my trailers

All four of my rv trailers came with 15"/16" ST type tires. I've always sold them and went with 15" P tires on 3500 lbs axles and 16"LT E tires on 5.2/6k axles.

This way I can run 45k/55k miles over 7-8 years with no issues at any speed.

On my non rv trailers with 7k-8k axles I use commercial grade all steel ply carcass 16" ST S637 Sailun load G. Also trouble free and easily go 60k miles in 7-8 years.

Good tire brands depends on my trailer OEM axle/tire size and load range capacities plus a good 10-15 percent reserve capacity.

I have two trailers with Goodyear Endurance. They are made in the USA.
The Endurance replaced the Marathon.
For a given size, the Endurance has a higher load rating than most other ST Tires.
The Endurance has a higher speed rating than most other ST Tires.

Video on Goodyear Endurance weight comparison

New tires on my cargo trailer

Keep them aired up properly and don't overload them. That is the cause of the vast majority of blowouts (road debris is up there also but not much you can do about that).

Keep in min the supposed china bombs are mostly the result of 90% of trailers coming with them, so no surprise 90% of blowouts come from them but some people are still shocked. Then they buy the expensive brand, watch the weights and air pressure and convince themselves it was the brand.

Always bought the cheapest brand that meets the weight specs as my dad did before me. 1 blowout between us in 60-70yrs of towing and that was a broken leaf spring that swung out and ate the inside of the tire...no brand was going to survive that.

Always kept my tires at proper pressure and never overload.

My 1st China Bomb to die was a spare that was never used and always covered. It grew a significant bulge on one side. That was followed by 2 blowouts on a single trip. That left me with 2 original tires. When I had everything replaced the tire guy showed me a curvy tread pattern on one of the remaining tires that he said he had never seen. This pattern was just in a small section. The other remaining tire was not flat when deflated which I was told was not normal.

Yeah, maybe endurance cost more, but after $4k of damage and 9 months to get TT repaired from blowouts, I will pay.

I would rather by a tire from a American company where the tires are actually made in America. The China Bombs I had came from an American company that makes nothing. They came from China and just have their branding stamped on them. My enruance tires were shipped to me straight from Goodyear, AZ where they were made.

Reading the posts...........is there any reason for me to suggest Goodyear Endurance tires? I've heard good things about Maxxis tires, but I'm gonna hang with Goodyear.

Vintage465 wrote:
Reading the posts...........is there any reason for me to suggest Goodyear Endurance tires? I've heard good things about Maxxis tires, but I'm gonna hang with Goodyear.

I've had good luck with Maxxis as well as the Endurance. I've logged well over 100K miles on a combo of Maxxis and Endurance with zip issues.

But then I have a TPMS which has caught a slow leak from a nail which likely prevented a blowout situation.