Carlisle Tires

[bigtbasser]

34'Heartland 5th wheel. Came with Tow max tire. 5 years of good use . Probably around 10,000 miles. Noticed a low tire, 65 lbs, and brought it back up to 80. I should have stopped by a tire store but headed home, 250 miles. Once home noticed tire was real low and took it off. There was a tear on the sidewall. I can't believe how luck I was not to have had a blowout.
Shopping for 4 new tires and am looking at Carlisle tires. I keep my speed below 65. Are the new Carlisle's better than the tow max. Les Schuab sells the Tow max. Thanks Terry

[n7bsn]

reddwar wrote:
So you say the Goodyear 614 is a LT tire?
http://www.goodyearrvtires.com/tire-selector.aspx
READ!!!!!! WHAT GOODYEAR SAYS!!!!!!
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Goodyear

Never actually looked at the Goodyear info I take it. Go to here click on on the G615 and see that it's listed as LT235/85R16

[Greene728]

reddwar wrote:
Looks to me like you are asking which **ap tire is best, they both suck. If you want a good tire that will not brake the bank. Get a Hankook LT or a goodrich lt commercial LT truck/pickup tire. Both are 10 times better than Tow max or Carlisle trailer tires. Why buy cr** when you can buy better?

My last rig had Goodyear 614 a G rated tire. Goodyear spent a lot of money fixing my fifth wheel. Got tired of them blowing up. Got Hankook F19 my tire problem was over great tires.

BS advice from someone who I'm willing to bet has zero experience with the new Carlisle tires.
I've been running the new Carlisle Radial Trail RH for four seasons now with absolutely zero issues and so have my in-laws since 2013 on a 12k fiver. Holds air and wearing exceptionally well. I'll be replacing them next a spring simply due to age and miles. FWIW, I'll be replacing them with the exact same tire.

[reddwar]

So you say the Goodyear 614 is a LT tire?
http://www.goodyearrvtires.com/tire-selector.aspx
READ!!!!!! WHAT GOODYEAR SAYS!!!!!!
I still will take a good LT "road tire" over an ST tire. Did not think I would have to say "road tire" as I assume most folks were smart enough not to buy mud & snow tires for there RV.

As I said our last rig had GY 614 {as you read it is made for heavy fifth wheels & trailers has a G rate 14ply at 110 psi} We were 100/150 miles from nowhere when one tire blew up & took out the valve on the other tire so we had two bad tires. Called good sam's road service. The first person they called could not get GY 614 but wanted to bring me E rated tires on rims I told him no. #2 could not get GY 614, but he had Hankook F19 750/16 14ply, G is 14 ply. I was not happy but said yes, did not know how many more people GS would call. They were great tires I put around 50,000 miles on those 2 tires & they still looked new when we traded in our rig, we worked on the road. So yes I know if you have high pressure tires you have to have high pressure rims. The 5er we now have has 17.5 low profile tires same size as 16" with H rate or 16 ply, 125 psi, we have 2 - 8,000 lb. axles.

Most tires are good tires, I will still take an LT over a ST, but if you want trouble free tires. Check your air before each trip, every morning check your tires before you take off & thump them like truckers do. There are bad tires but by far most that go bad are from low air pressure people just do not check the air pressure.

[laknox]

Going into the 4th year with my Carlisle RH's. Starting to show some checking on the sidewalls, but otherwise look nearly new. Kept covered and on boards since new.

Lyle

[MNRon]

Bought our 14000lb 5er used in spring of 2014. It had CarlisleRH tires date coded ~2012 at the time, no idea how many miles. We've put 19,000 miles on since getting it, kept tires aired to 95psi (load range F) and have had no tire issues. Have planned on replacing next spring on time.

Just had bearings greased and mechanic said I had alignment issue because all 4 tires had significant and irregular wear on inside AND outside ribs, 3 center ribs no significant wear. All 4 tires like this? My first thought is underinflation but have TPMS so I know inflation is 90-95 cold always (TPMS reads ~3psi lower than digital gauge).

Hard to believe it's alignment as new MorRyde IS installed 14,000miles ago and all 4 going bad? And both inside and outside rib wear on same tire caused by alignment?

Taking it to MorRyde in a couple months and see where I go from here. Like the 3900lb carrying with 95psi instead of going to 110psi (more damage IF blow) so still planning on replacing with RH but want to discuss with MorRyde first.

[n7bsn]

Going back to the original question, yes Carlisle Radial Trails are better then what you have.
The ST tires Carlisle sells today (Radial Trail RH or HD) are a vast improvement over ST tires Carlisle sold years ago. I have over 7000 miles on the set I have now with no issues.

The advise to "buy LT tires", without a model attached to the advise is dangerously bad. There are LT tire models that should never be used on a trailer.

There are LT tire models that work well, maybe better then any ST tire. An example is the G614, which is an LT tire.

Where you could go wrong is getting a deep lug, high traction, "off road" LT tire on your trailer. You actually don't want high-traction tires on your trailer.

The big downside to G614 tires is that it's common for trailer rims not to be rated for the higher PSI (110) these tires are rated for, rims and tires can run $450 to $550 per tire.

[reddwar]

Looks to me like you are asking which **ap tire is best, they both suck. If you want a good tire that will not brake the bank. Get a Hankook LT or a goodrich lt commercial LT truck/pickup tire. Both are 10 times better than Tow max or Carlisle trailer tires. Why buy cr** when you can buy better?

My last rig had Goodyear 614 a G rated tire. Goodyear spent a lot of money fixing my fifth wheel. Got tired of them blowing up. Got Hankook F19 my tire problem was over great tires.

[RinconVTR]

I have had great success running Radial Trail RH's for well more than 10k miles over 3 seasons. I remove my tires every summer for inspection and I've never seen such a good looking tire with so many miles on it. No raised edges. No cupping. No uneven wear to speak of. Perfect.

Their newest tire the Radial Trail HD replaces the RH series. I am not yet convinced I need to remove the Westlakes from my new TT only 3 weeks old, but when I do, it will be these Carlisle HD's.

[Dankenbring]

We had St tires on our 3 year old 40 ft fifth wheel. After 8K of use , one separated and the others was about as bad. Went with LT tires. So far wear is very good and no problems. Our local coop will not sell ST tires because of complaints they had.

[Artum_Snowbird]

After reading post after post, posing the same questions as you, I went to Costco and bought Bridgestone R250's for my fifth wheel.

They are exceptionally good tires.

[fj12ryder]

FWIW our 2010 Fuzion came with Carlisle tires. We had two failures within a couple hours of each other after less than 2 years and 8,000 miles. All I could think of was the old aphorism: "Fool me once...".

We are running Sailun S637 currently.

[TxGearhead]

The newer Carlisle HD is supposedly better. I just put them on a small utility trailer. Fingers crossed.

[Boxer_Lovers]

I have had Carlisle tires for two years. First one failed to hold air last month and had to replace it. Next set will be LT tires. The Carlisle replaced TowMax that had about 1,000 miles on them. One separated so I replaced them all.

[WNYBob]

The speed rating on my Carlisle tires is higher Tham most others of the same size. I don't run over 65 but having the extra safety margin is nice.

[Curly2001]

Just purchased four new Carlisle from Discount. They said these are a new model and work very well. ST225/75R15 E load range.