Update: Link to Goodyear Endurance ST Range D tires
UPDATE 2/13/17: The company has posted some info about the tire:
Endurance info
I have found a few news stories about a new line of Goodyear ST trailer tires, the Goodyear Endurance. (By the way, I'm well aware of the ongoing "discussion" of ST vs. LT tires. I choose to run ST tires. Other people's opinions may differ, and many of those people are very bright and well-informed. I doubt that there's any reason to renew that debate in this thread. So if you are an LT person, you can probably save yourself some tedium and ignore this thread.) ;)
Anyway, my question is this – I've done some fairly strenuous googling, and I've come up empty. Can anyone find a link to a Goodyear site giving the specs for this new tire? Is it commercially available at this time? I've heard that they will offer it in load range D – if they have range D in a 14 inch tire, I would be very interested in that product. By the way, I've also heard that these tires are going to be made in the USA, which is encouraging.
In case you're wondering why I would run range D tires on such a small trailer, we do about 10,000 miles of towing a year, and the news reports say that the Goodyear Endurance is capable of higher speeds than the Goodyear Marathon. I don't know if that's true, but it would be nice to be able to go over 65 (on a downhill with the wind behind me), in states in which it's legal to tow at that speed.
Also, because we do so much rough road towing (both at slow speeds on forest roads and at high speeds on the terrible California freeways), I am always on the lookout for a more robust ST tire.
Thanks in advance for your superior Google skills!
Endurance info
I have found a few news stories about a new line of Goodyear ST trailer tires, the Goodyear Endurance. (By the way, I'm well aware of the ongoing "discussion" of ST vs. LT tires. I choose to run ST tires. Other people's opinions may differ, and many of those people are very bright and well-informed. I doubt that there's any reason to renew that debate in this thread. So if you are an LT person, you can probably save yourself some tedium and ignore this thread.) ;)
Anyway, my question is this – I've done some fairly strenuous googling, and I've come up empty. Can anyone find a link to a Goodyear site giving the specs for this new tire? Is it commercially available at this time? I've heard that they will offer it in load range D – if they have range D in a 14 inch tire, I would be very interested in that product. By the way, I've also heard that these tires are going to be made in the USA, which is encouraging.
In case you're wondering why I would run range D tires on such a small trailer, we do about 10,000 miles of towing a year, and the news reports say that the Goodyear Endurance is capable of higher speeds than the Goodyear Marathon. I don't know if that's true, but it would be nice to be able to go over 65 (on a downhill with the wind behind me), in states in which it's legal to tow at that speed.
Also, because we do so much rough road towing (both at slow speeds on forest roads and at high speeds on the terrible California freeways), I am always on the lookout for a more robust ST tire.
Thanks in advance for your superior Google skills!
