Tires for Fiver

The Works wrote:

Dandy Dan wrote:

Tgator1 wrote:
Again, thanks to everyone for the helpful information. I ended up with Bridgestone Duravis R250's (LT245 75R 16) purchased at Discount Tires. I'm looking forward to several years of explosion free service from them!

For what it is worth, Bridgestone and B F Goodrich are both owned by Michelin. When the BFG recall came out I only had a couple thousand miles on mine and they replaced them with XPS's :B:B

Cool!!

As I posted at the bottom of page 3, Michelin does not own Bridgestone Tires. It is Bridgestone/Firestone.

Chris

Dandy Dan wrote:

Tgator1 wrote:
Again, thanks to everyone for the helpful information. I ended up with Bridgestone Duravis R250's (LT245 75R 16) purchased at Discount Tires. I'm looking forward to several years of explosion free service from them!

For what it is worth, Bridgestone and B F Goodrich are both owned by Michelin. When the BFG recall came out I only had a couple thousand miles on mine and they replaced them with XPS's :B:B

Cool!!

Dandy Dan wrote:

Tgator1 wrote:
Again, thanks to everyone for the helpful information. I ended up with Bridgestone Duravis R250's (LT245 75R 16) purchased at Discount Tires. I'm looking forward to several years of explosion free service from them!

For what it is worth, Bridgestone and B F Goodrich are both owned by Michelin. When the BFG recall came out I only had a couple thousand miles on mine and they replaced them with XPS's :B:B

Cool!!

Dandy Dan wrote:

Tgator1 wrote:
Again, thanks to everyone for the helpful information. I ended up with Bridgestone Duravis R250's (LT245 75R 16) purchased at Discount Tires. I'm looking forward to several years of explosion free service from them!

For what it is worth, Bridgestone and B F Goodrich are both owned by Michelin. When the BFG recall came out I only had a couple thousand miles on mine and they replaced them with XPS's :B:B

Bridgestone is not owned by Michelin. It is Bridgestone/Firestone!

Michelin does own BFG and Uniroyal.

Chris

Tgator1 wrote:
Again, thanks to everyone for the helpful information. I ended up with Bridgestone Duravis R250's (LT245 75R 16) purchased at Discount Tires. I'm looking forward to several years of explosion free service from them!

Interesting! I tried to purchase XPS Ribs, same size as you, to replace Towmaster 235/80/R16's, same as you, and Discount Tire flatly refused to sell them to me because "they aren't the same load carrying capacity as the originals". They waited till my rig was up on the jacks and 2 wheels already removed before the "service manager" came to inform me they wouldn't sell me the Ribs but would sell me some GY 614Gs at $100/tire more than the Ribs. Sounded like a scam to me then, and still does after reading that they had no problems selling them to you.

You definitely made the right choice going to LT tires to replace the Towmaster ST junk!

Tgator1 wrote:
Again, thanks to everyone for the helpful information. I ended up with Bridgestone Duravis R250's (LT245 75R 16) purchased at Discount Tires. I'm looking forward to several years of explosion free service from them!

For what it is worth, Bridgestone and B F Goodrich are both owned by Michelin. When the BFG recall came out I only had a couple thousand miles on mine and they replaced them with XPS's :B:B

Bite the bullet and buy some Michelin XPS Ribs. We have over 15K miles on ours and they look brand new and we haven't had a problem with them, haven't even needed to put air in them.

Again, thanks to everyone for the helpful information. I ended up with Bridgestone Duravis R250's (LT245 75R 16) purchased at Discount Tires. I'm looking forward to several years of explosion free service from them!

My Goodyear 614 had complete failure this weekend...BOOM, back left tire. Pressure good when I started out, but maybe a little old, or ran over something. For the record, the age was 7 years according to DOT date. Fortunate, damage was minimal.

Over the past six years and 3 different trailers, I have blown out a exactly 3 tires(one on each trailer), all rear tires. One was China made LT, a brand I had never heard of, one was a Goodyear Marathon(ST) and now the Goodyear 614.....only common point was that they were all over 5 years old at the time of the blow out. I am replacing all 4 with Sailun 637...almost 1/2 the money of the Goodyear 614 and while not a long track record, they are getting an okay reviews. Rated for 3750 lbs at 110 PSI.

I considered the Carlisle 235-85-16 load F-ST(95psi, 3900 lbs), dealer strongly recommended this(contrary to the negative posts, the dealer says that they hear no more negative than other tires). One reason I chose S637's was that on the Carlisle website they say..."..the combined capacity of all of the tires should exceed the loaded trailer weight by 20 percent"...so in effect, not much more load capability that a Load E (3042lbs at 80psi)...the added bonus is higher speed rating...not like I haul over 60-65, but does happen from time to time. I figure I have a little more load capacity at speed.

Last thought on a long post....have any of you guys ever checked the loaded weight, wheel by wheel....most people I talk to blow the rear tires...I am curious to see if the rear tires are carrying more than 1/2 the combined weight on one side...

Maxxis....do the research. ST tire not made in china. For me they were very reliable.