TrackMaster grenade
On the way back from camping this weekend we had a tire detread and explode. Slight damage to the rim but a good amount of damage to under carriage of camper along with some side body damage around t...
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Huntindog wrote:
To the OP: I used to have many ST tire problems. I have owned more sets of ST tires than I care to remember. When I ran STs, my TT was constatly sporting new tires. None of them made it to their second birthday
mabynack wrote:
I've had six blowouts with ST tires. The last two tires had less than 3000 miles on them and looked brand new. I'm definitely going with new LT tires before I take another long trip.
While it's just my opinion these two instances of issues with ST tires tells me something else is the problem more than just using ST tires. The VAST MAJORITY of ST tire users have no where near these sort of dismal experiences, myself included and in the close to 20 years of running Marathon ST tires I never had a tread separation, only one flat and routinely got 5 to 6 years use out of each tire.
Fast forward, In March 2013 I upgraded my wheels to aluminum ones which I always wanted anyway and at the same time went with the Kumho 857 195R14 tires that had a load capacity of 2094 (compared to the GY 205 of 1760) and a speed rating of over 100mph IIRC. These replaced the GY Marathons that came on the trailer that were at the time almost 7 years old and had just shy of 11K miles on them. Coming back from Fl. this past Feb I had one on the rear axle throw it's tread. At that time the tire was less than 3 years old and had only been on my trailer for just under two years and 6400 total miles. During this time I routinely traveled at a solid 65mph up from my normal 58 to 60 I had always ran before on the GY Marathons. This was the first real tire failure since some passenger car tires I ran on my previous trailer from about 1988 to 1996 started self destructing at which time I became an exclusive GY Marathon user for the next 17 years. Because Kumho evidently stopped marketing the 195R14 tires here I had to replace the bad tire with a GY Marathon 205R75x14 and have now invested in a 5th aluminum rim and one more new GY ST tire and now am running Kumhos on the front axle and GY marathons on the rear axle and carrying one GY marathon and one Kumho 857 spare. I'm going to drop my speed towing back to my previous 58 to 60 and see what happens with this "MIXED COMBO" next.
BTW I was running a TPMS at the time, but forgot to have my "range extender" plugged in so I wasn't getting reliable signals bacause the sensor batteries were several years old:S ... live and learn ... even the best stuff doesn't help if you forget to make sure it's working correctly.
Larry
