TIRES?????
Here we go again. as I posted here before I was having my dealer repack my wheels when they discovered a bad tire. Carlyle tires he told me they were the worst tire I could have on a trailer. Today ...
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CapriRacer wrote:
Word of caution:
The load on tires varies front to rear and side to side. If you are doing reserve capacity calculations you have to account for this. If you've weighed the trailer, tire by tire, then you know what the variation is.
But if you weighed your trailer axle by axle, I'd recommend to use a 10% figure for the worst case - and if you weighed your trailer as a whole (that is, not axle by axle, or tire by tire), then I'd recommend using 15%.
To put this in perspective, RVUSA quoted some figures, but didn't account for the variation - and at 12.7%, he just might have an overloaded tire. But we can't be sure without individual tire weights.
Everything you say is true, and there is a definite possibility that the rear axle, passenger side tire, is over loaded so to speak. The fridge sits above and slightly aft of that tire, and it is consistently the warmest tire.
I didn't go into the details of that portion of the loading and as you pointed out in your own follow up I should have just to make all sources of load balancing problems apparent so anyone following along wouldn't be misled in how to figure their own numbers.
The last thing that I want to do is to lead someone in the wrong direction when it comes to load balancing their tires.
Edit: I will add that I run the rear axle tires at 85 psi. and the front at 80 (the max psi on the sidewall). I bumped the rears up based on goodyears recommendation to minimize heat build up on their Marathons. It did help as the temps went down in both rear tires for the same mph.
