TowMax Tires
My rig is exactly one year old and has been pulled around 9 - 10,000 miles. I just pulled into a campground here in Wyoming and noticed one tire looked kinda low. Pulled the wheel off and saw that the...
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ScottG wrote:Me Again wrote:Boxer Lovers wrote:
Just replaced OEM TowMax. One tire blew a belt. Less than 4,000 miles. Dangerous tires. China is sending******over here and getting away with it.
ST tires had lots of problems before their production was moved china. Anytime you take a light weight tire and up its carrying capacity by 30 percent and subject them to lower testing standards, you are in for problems.
This is a tire type that was created for local service, not extended freeway use. Chris
Have to respectfully disagree.
I wore out (never concerned myself with age) 3 sets of ST tires on our old TT before they all went to China. Never had an issue. In fact twice I had flats and they just went flat - no drama, no explosions.
And two of those sets were bias ply Carlisle's made in the USA.
How heavy was your TT? If < 10k lbs, then I'm not surprised you had good luck. Also, IMO the old bias ply tires =were= flatly a better tire. There are 2 problems with ST tires; poor manufacturing quality, plain and simple, and designs that are marked for use =way= beyond their true capacity.
Lyle
