I do have a "travel" trailer. :) I travel, rarely camp. I use it extensively in the fall for football games. Usually a minimum of 8 and most of the times more. Last year we went to 13 using the trailer. The football trips have been from Richmond to Orlando, to Syracuse, to South Bend, and to West Lafayette. The short football trips have been from Richmond to Blacksburg, a 440 mile round trip and there are at least 6 of those per year. Plus we've been to Orlando several times to visit in laws.
The single longest tow was from Richmond to the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles and return. That trip alone accounted for over 7,900 miles.
And all of them were on Maxxis ST205/75R14 LRC tires.
Like you, I much prefer the higher speed rating of the Endurance. Even though I still drive between 63 and 65 on the interstate, I like the extra margin of error I have now. And as you said, sometimes it's unavoidable to get up to 70 or so. For me this was usually when getting on an interstate.
I'll have a pretty good idea how good the Endurance are in about 3 years, if not before.
Bigbird65 wrote:
Atlee wrote:
What happened to you, happened to me, down to fortunately catching the problem while it was sitting still, and not on the highway.
My tires were Maxxis ST205/75R14 LRC. I did have over 30k miles on them, but they looked nearly new. Tire store said it suffered belt separation.
I replaced the Maxxis with the latest Carlisle and then sold the trailer.
My new trailer came with OEM GY Endurance tires.
You certainly got a lot of miles out of your Maxxis tires Atlee. The seductive thing about these offshore tires is that they look great until they go boom. You were very lucky.
With these C load rated tires the speed rating is commonly 65. I think this is a hard number that should not be exceeded. How many of us creep up to 70 or more with these tires? Probably most of us at one time or other, whether intentional or not. One of the best features of the Endurance tires is that they are rated at 87 mph. This is comforting if you want to run 70 all day on a hot day.
Glad the Endurance tires came on your new trailer. The trailer manufacturers are catching on.
