Well I got this over with?

[CLAYTON]

Looks like I got my first blowout out of the way. I was driving down to Zions and hear "BOOM!!" I thought that my trailer came loose and I look in the passenger side mirror and see smoke all over the place. I pull over and sure enough the tire is destroyed. I am going to swap out my stock 15" rims and tires to a 16" wheels and good E rated tires. My tires have always looked like there is a lot of wait on them while my father inlaws trailer (which is heavier) has 16's wheels and E rated tires and they look like there is nothing on them. I would just feel safer with bigger and heavier duty tires. How many of you guys have swapped yours out for bigger wheels and tires?

 

[bombero]

Boy I have been thinking about doing the same thing. The problem on my rig is the tires are about 5in apart. The tires I been looking at are 215/75/16 load range E. They are about 2in larger than my 15. Now I will have 1in which I cant live with. If you figure out a good fix there is many RVers would love you.

 

[GFrance]

Ya when I"m ready for new trailer tires they will be E rated. The funny thing is mine are 16" but D rated & my buddy has the same brand trailer a year newer & has E rated. I got jipped.

 

[EricBu12]

Thats why my trailer has 6 wheels. I have 6 d rate tires and when I weighed it, it was at 12,500# The rating of all 6 tires is 15,400 # so when my trailer is fully loaded, the tires are not being stressed much. . Thats what more trailers are doing that are over 32-34' or so... . it needs more support if you want the smaller tires for lower profile... .

 

[Radshooter]

We have 6 tires on our trailer also. 235/85R16 This beast weighs 16800 lbs. Last spring when we bought new tires, I upgraded from the D tires that came with it to load range E tires. Stayed with same size. I feel a lot better going down the road now.



Steve

 

[ata]

I was going to change to E rated 16" on my trailer. But with buying wheels and tires and then having the old ones sitting around I thought there has to be an E rated 15". I finally found one, Titan 225-75-15-E. They don't squat or flex like the D rated 15" tires and they made the trailer handle so much better it's unreal and they are under $90. 00 bucks a tire with shipping. I didn't find any place that stocked them had to order them through Les Schwab Tires. You can look up Titan Tires on the computer and find a dealer thats close to you.

 

[CLAYTON]

I'll have to check out those tires... that might be the route in stead of bigger wheels and tires... I might still do the bigger wheel thing to raise the trailer up just a little to help it sit more level.

 

[Casey Balvert]

I did it right the first time. Ordered 8 E rated tires on that sucker.



Casey

 

[Rockcrawler]

Pretty sure you can get bias 7. 00-15's with an F rating, you'll only replace due to dry rot then and you don't have to buy wheels. They are a bit bigger than the 225/75's but not much.

 

[Eric_77]

Boy I have been thinking about doing the same thing. The problem on my rig is the tires are about 5in apart. The tires I been looking at are 215/75/16 load range E. They are about 2in larger than my 15. Now I will have 1in which I cant live with. If you figure out a good fix there is many RVers would love you.

Well the fix is a little difficult



The high capacity low diameter I found is a 17. 5 low boy trailer tire. Real short like a mobile home tire (I think they were 225/55/17. 5) but the kicker is the wheel, all the 17. 5 wheels I could find were 8 lug without the proper back spacing to fit in my wheelwells. which meant trading out the drums and also the axles

 

[HBarlow]

My old Avion came with GY Marathon ST225/75R15 LRD tires. Since I don't like GY Marathons I replaced them with Michelin LT235/75R15s. I put 60,000 miles on the Michelins including an Alaska trip beginning when they had 50k on them. The tires still had miles remaining when I sold the trailer. I was planning to change over to 16" rims before I sold it. I had bought a set of four silver "mod" steel six lug 16" wheels and had decided on Michelin LT225/75R16 LRD tires. The 16" diameter tires were only 1/2" greater diameter and would have fit with plenty of clearance. I sold the trailer before I made the conversion and exchanged the wheels for a set of eight lug 16" wheels that fit my 5er.



It is easy to compare tire diameters on The Tire Rack website. In the example above, remember, you only need to consider half of the tire diameter when you calculate clearance between tires on tandem axle trailers. In other words, when converting to tires with a diameter 2" larger than your existing tires each tire will move one inch closer and the gap between tires that was five inches will narrow from five inches to three inches.



Southwest Wheel http://www.southwestwheel.com is an excellent source for new wheels at very cheap prices.



Harvey