Tire Replacement Question

Timmo! wrote:


So I see I got your goat; fancy that. Guess we are not very "gritty dog", are we? Pussycat maybe.

You are right, neither of us know the size of the OP's tires. So I guess we can discount most of your diatribe, since you don't know.

But I do know the size of my TT tires and shared my real life experiences with my 15" TT tires. If you had some experiences with LT tires, then I am sure you would have shared those; but you didn't. Instead, you attempted to discredit my personal experiences and facts.

My experiences with LT tires has been great and I shared exactly why I made my choice. You can opine all you want, but that does not change the positive experiences I and others have with LT tires. Just as people have had good experiences with ST tires. One size does not fit all.

I guess a few thousand of us TT owners with LT tires never got the memo declaring the LT tire Bandwagon is over. So the LT debate had been settled a decades ago...by who? BTW, when did GY stop producing Marathons? Hmm, not decades ago.

Yes, Timmo and his posse camp mostly off the beaten path (boonies) and sometimes a brief weekend stay those smaller campgrounds. Places where we can slip our 20' TT in tiny camp sites usually occupied by tent campers. I think the last time we stayed in an RV park with paved roads, concrete pads, and connections for water, electric and sewer was way back in 1999; before we bought our Nash.

In our travels, snow chains on the TT were needed many times to travel between spots--hmm. Imagine that! Not everyone camps like "The Grit Doggie" at cushy campgrounds.

And...when a person changes a civil discussion on TT tire facts and shared personal experiences, and then attempts to downgrade it to another silly kindergarten sandbox name calling game, then one must be out ammo (no more facts). It must be frustrating have a deficit of LT tire facts and/or experiences, and instead of making friendly contributions--one resorts to attacking the person instead. Yep, out of ammo.

BTW, all my women affectionately call me Timmy. Just so you know where you stand.

First, I apologize for the mis-spelling of your name. Whoda thunk that Timmo might autocorrect to an actual word like Timmy?
Anyway, no one is upset on this end of the internet. It's just that you don't know what you're talking about, and think "your" way is the best way, when it's not.
I just try to keep people from making mistakes due to the proliferation of bad intel here, like "don't use ST tires, not rated for high enough speed and loading."
Which is about 99.5% horse manure.

I'll summarize:
14 or 15"? Doesn't matter. 14" LTs are non existent, so, whatever.
15" LTs are rare and if load rating is a concern, 15" ST tires can be had in MUCH higher load ratings than vehicle tires.
The rest doesn't matter, but regarding Goodyear marathons, yup I figured out those were junk back in about 2003 or 04, so not quite "decades", but more than a decade. Besides there were great ST replacement tires for those back then as well as actual LT options in 14" and 15". But alas the world seems to have passed you by since then because noone has made a passenger vehicle that "needs" any sort of LT tire in those small rim sizes in this century, save for maybe the compact pickups that someone wants to overload.
Back when full size trucks had 15" wheels heavy duty tires in those sizes were common.

And rather than explain why you think the actual data I posted is wrong, you do the 2nd grade name calling game.
Cheers Timmy! I mean Timmo!

And fwiw I never discredited your experience with your tires, just said it's bad "general" advice, as you threw it out there in your first post. And it still is. Will a 15" HT tire "work" in certain scenarios and even work well? I have no doubt tht it will, but allow me to clue you in to something. Feel free to use this in other life decisions as well. If "everyone else" and "the industry" are all doing something differently than you do, maybe it's time to at least question what you're doing. At very least don't broadcast it as the "best" way to do something when you're not well informed of the other options out there.