Trailer tire help needed

[fortunate1]

All the tire dealers around here carry either Goodyear Marathons or Carlisles. Both are receiving mixed reviews (at best) in this thread. Joe D's use of "regular" tires did cross my mind. If I use a good quality D-load rated tire, I'll have spent less money and still be at or near the load handling capacity I want. Based on the pricing I've seen, people are sure proud of their Marathons and Carlisles.

 

[Buffalo]

Towmaster by Greenball are made by Goodyear (same thing as the Marathon's). They are much cheaper than the Marathon's.

The new Marathon's and Towmaster's now have a tread belt of nylon, along with the polyester & steel. The nylon acts like a girdle and doesn't expand like the polyester and steel does. Holds everything together better.



I've done a couple of cross country trips with them and have had no problems.



Try finding the Towmaster distrubutor, in your area. They are much cheaper than the dealers, here.



Also, my trailer came with 205/75/15-C's. I was able to upgrade to 225/75/15-D's. They are only slightly larger but, heavier duty. Fit very nicely on my trailer.



Hope this helps.



Joe F. (Buffalo)

 

[Blue2002]

Just blew out a Goodyear Marathon ST 'C' Rated on my boat trailer today. My trailer/boat loaded is only 2180LBs and was well within the tire's specs 1480lbs/tire. The tread completey separated from the sidewalls. Just glad there was no one behind me. I will not be buying the Goodyear marathon ST again.

 

[crobertson1]

I just got my Tow Masters today. I also got 225/75/15s in D rating. I hope they fit inside the fenders! I tried for Titan Radial ST IIs but they weren't available except by ordering which was going to take a couple of weeks. So, hopefully the Tow Masters will be just fine.

 

[Buffalo]

Blue 2002,



If your Marathon's were a number of years old, they may have been the old style of tire which had a tendency to do just what your tire did. They, possibly, may have had just the polyester and steel belts in the tread. When those got hot, they would expand and get larger and then cool down and get smaller. Eventually, the tread area of the tire would just let go.



The new Marathon's are engineered with an additional belt of nylon on the outside of the polyester & steel belts. The nylon does not expand when it gets hot and has a tendency to limit the expansion of the polyester & steel belts. It acts like a girdle.



This, of course, doesn't mean that a new style of Marathon can't blow. Anything can happen. However, I don't hear of anywhere near the number of failures of the new tires as compared to the old style.



Last summer, I took an 8000+ mile trip, back east, and the summer before that, I took a 6000+ mile trip, plus many side trips around the desert southwest. All on the new style Towmasters (same tire as Marathon's), with no problems, at all. Two of my friends bought the Towmaster's and a third will this year. None of us have had a problem. My guess is the problems Marathon's were having is now fixed.



As a side note, one of my friends had the old style Marathon, watched his tire preasures religiously, had one blow on a trip back east, bought all new Marathon's (new style) but, kept the best looking old one for a spare. When he got back to AZ, the spare had blown, and it wasn't even on the ground. It was on the back bumper, spare tire mount.



Joe F. (Buffalo)

 

[macdaddy]

Denman Tires

I don't know anything about Denman tires. I went from Goodyear load range C tires to Carlise tires load range E. And I put steel value stems on the rims.

I am running Denman's on my Toybox weighing 10K it came with 15's :{ . They are 225/75-15 Load Range "E" 80PSI max. They are great tires with no problems.



Mac

 

[butchb]

goodyear LT21585R16 e rated came on trailer when new. run 75 lbs air trailer is 12100gvw tires are six years old and never a problem never was a goodyear man but am changing my mind

 

[Xgunfighter]

I just bought a Nu Wa 30. 5 5th wheel. It has "LT" tires on it from the factory. Larado E range. Just for information only