Towing with Chevy Suburban 1500

Terryallan wrote:

LarryJM wrote:

Terryallan wrote:
?Sounds like it is doing a good job. No problems, EXCEPT as mentioned above. 99 percent of TT tires are rated to 65mph. IF you are running 70+ you are going too fast. Slow it down, and relax. No one will run over you.

Excellent point and compromising a tire's reliability is not necessarily a cumulative thing ... IMO it's sort of like cracking a glass, it only takes one time to crack it and then you've done the damage immediately. In view of the potential damage from a blowout vs the total cost of new tires if it were me I would be replacing all those tires ASAP. I personally just would no longer trust them to any longer. Of course I'm also the one that if I do have a flat on a tire, I consider the other tire on that side also no good (i.e. compromised reliability wise) and I replace tires in pairs.

Larry

I change mine in 5s. Last summer I had 2 flats on one side of the TT in one trip. I am fully convinced that the second one went because it had to carry the full weight of that side of the TT for a few miles until we realized we had a flat. Later in the day. the other one blew.

they were in their 4th year. so when I got home. I bought 5 new tires, and junked all of the old ones. No more old tire for me, and now I carry 2 spares.

Interesting and sort of proves or at least lends some credence to what I was saying even tho more anecdotal than scientific.

I also now carry two spares, but I for the last 40 years and close to 200K miles towing have been living on the wild side since I'm a GY Marathon junkee who normally runs my tires right at (usually within 100lbs) of their max load carrying rating. In all those years and miles I have had like 4 flats and 4 tire separations. 2 of those tire separations where back in the early 90's when I had a set of car, bias ply tires on my trailer that were going on 8 years old and the most recent two were on my Kumho 857s along with one of my flats being on a Kumho 857. About 3 years ago I bought a set of Kumhos and within 2 years and less than 15K miles had three fail and they all had like 500lbs + reserve capacity on each tire.

My next set of tires will be the newer GY Endurance unless I hear a lot of negative info on them. I'm stuck with using 14" tires due to axle configuration/spacing unless I re do my axles and I can't do a simple "flip" since my axles are the torsion type on this trailer.

Larry