Need new tires ALREADY!
I puchased a new Shadow Cruiser 280qbs, it has 205/75/14 load C tires. I have maybe 1000 miles on them and I always check the tire preasure before trips. My unit (unloaded) is around 5,200lbs and ...
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panamacamper1 wrote:
I will try to post pictures today of the tires. The middle of the tire is perfect. The inside tread is bald and the outside tread are bubbled up.
They are H118ST tires, never heard of them before.
If the inside edge is bald, especially on all four tires, it sure sounds like the axles are overloaded. You say the outside is bubbled....that sounds like a heat issue, which could likely go along with the idea of overloaded.
There have been other threads on this forum where cruiser and the axle supplier have stepped up to the plate and installed a higher load rated axle. If I were you, I would approach them in a reasonable way and see if you can get some relief from them.
I would take the rig to the CAT scale and get the weights so that you can show them you are in fact within the limits of the trailer GVWR.
The tire you refer to ( H118ST ) is apparently one of what I will call "generic chinese produced tires". It is what came as a spare on my funfinder, yet the four tires on the ground that came on it were "Freestar".
As a side note, so far these Freestars are okay. My plan is to replace them soon with LT tires, but as I said, so far they have been okay. I've got about 5K miles on them and they have only used up about 1/32" of tread. All of which means nothing in comparison to your situation, because my trailer only weighs 3800 pounds, so it's only running at a bit more than 50% of it's tire load capacity.
