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Originally Posted by Jeff Teuton
Nice information. More from the School of Hard Knocks and Blowouts on the Side of the Road. There is no such thing as a good 15" trailer tire. ST tires are junk no matter the brand. 16" rims & 10 ply commercial tires work fine on a 2 axle trailer. There are 6 hole 16" rims available reasonable. 3 Axle trailers (Stackers) blow 16" tires. (Alcoa now makes a direct replacement 17.5 rim for the 7000 lb axle, and Continental makes a 17.5 tires that is rated @ 3600 lbs per tire) Commercial tires are made for about 3 years service. A big truck tire ( motor home or conversion) cannot be recapped no matter how new looking after 3 years. ( I just changed 10 @ $375 each that looked brand new) We do have just a little experience with tires as we have 1600 leased trucks that we provide tires for. We blew so many 16 in tires on my stacker, we could change one on the side of the road faster than Nascar, and we carried 3 spares and sometime that wasn't enough. These were all Goodyears 16 plys. They work great on 2 axles, too much wiggle on 3 axles. This information is from the people who service our fleet.
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I have a 30' living quarters trailer and during a trip to the Indy Nationals in 2007 I blew out three 16" tires. On this trip I replaced all four tires. During the trip to the 2008 Indy Nationals I blew out another three tires. I can tell you they only had about 2500 miles on them. One of the 16" tires blew out while I was attending a race at Houston Raceway Park. The trailer was parked in the track for a day and we heard a loud boom! I then discovered one of the new tires, I had just bought several weeks ago blew out. That was it!! Thanks to the help of Jeff Teuton, I bought a set of 17.5 Alcoa Aluminum wheels and 17.5 Continental tires. My old tires required 80 pounds. The new tires require 125 pounds of air. No more blow outs and the trailer handles much better without swaying. If I go to the 2009 Indy Nationals, I am sure my tire problems are over. Thanks Jeff! Yea we were pretty good at changing the tires on the side of the highway.