Goodyear Endurance

gmw photos wrote:
I was in my local Good Year dealer last week having a set of LT tires installed on my newest horse trailer. Talking to the owner of the store, and the subject of the Endurance tire came up. At the end of the short conversation, his comment was, "it's still just an ST tire".

From that comment, I take it that he too is withholding judgement until more time has passed and the tires have a history.
Maybe they will work out well. I'm like a few others here though, I have found what works for me, so I see no need to do beta testing for the tire companies.

yes it sorta still is an ST tire. However it is N (87mph) speed rated without derating the load capacity. Many other ST tire mfg do indicate going above 65mph is possible if you derate the load.

So.... in theory goodyear has at least designed the tire to pass the much more stringent speed rating tests than the pretty easy to pass ST 65mph test.

Now I have no intention of towing my trailer at anything close to 87 mph. But it is good to know the tires in theory are designed to handle the load at that high a speed.

We've put about 1500 miles on our goodyear endurance. The previous Maxxis went about 20K before needing to be replaced, no failures.

Also, the endurance took way smaller weights to balance than the Maxxis did. And the Maxxis took less weight than the Towmax that they replaced.

Time will tell, but it looks to me like Goodyear is trying to address some or all of the issues with ST tires.