Had it with blowing tires
I've owned my 07 LSV for about 1 yr. now and I've blown 4 tires and I'm done. I'll never buy tires from goodyear again. Last labor day I blew two tires and they were the only place open and they ended up selling me tires load rated at 1500#'s. now I've blow more tires and screwed up both fenders. I live in Arizona so temperature plays in along with speed on tire derating. I've been doing research on going to a 15" rim and going to a load rating E which is 2800# per tire vs 1500#. I would have to go to a 225/75r15 which is ~28" in diameter, which will be a close fit. The other option is a 205/75r15 with 2150# load rating but is 27" in diameter which will fit without modifing the fender. Has anybody done this swap or something close?
Thanks
David
Had it with blowing tires
I had one blowout and i just replaced all 4 of my tires then. My main problem with trailer tires is I seem to just chew up in the inside edge. I've been running my tires for 2 1/2 seasons now and the inside edge is almost bald on a couple of them and I don't even tow that much. I'm going to have to dismount them and flip them all over this off season.
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I only trailer like 500 miles a year and its a PITA. I hear sometime the spindles bend if you hit a bump to hard and that causes negative camber. I just can't imagine any of the bumps I hit being hard enough to bend a spindle. The whole load only weighs 5,000 lbs which is about the same as my truck and my truck hits stuff way harder than the trailer ever does. You would think the suspension would be strong enough to take normal road conditions. And I BABY my boat trailer when I'm towing.
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The original size is 225/75r14. Goodyear sold me standard load rated tires. Lessen learned now. Like I mentioned I live in Arizona and drive ~125 miles to the lake and drive about 65-70 mph and it is 105f outside. The last two tires were last weekend and the previous two were the originals from the previous owner which were old most likely last october.
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loudsubz
buy a cottage, problem solved
Is there a line somewhere that you cross and they change from lake houses to cottages?
Had it with blowing tires
My grandmother lived in a cottage in the woods but she doesn't need tires.
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moombadaze
what is the speed limit for 14' and 15' trailer tires-I'm quilty of hitting 80 towing when im running behind schedual. do the 18's have a different speed rating ?
I have the tandem axle with the 14" rims and the tires max speed is 65 mph. And I hate spending money on blown tires and i hate the inconvenience of having a blow out so I follow the 65 mph limit pretty religiously
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Torsion axle for me. I'm betting most with issues are the torsion. Just ordered replacement brake caliper assemblies for mine too. Found both of them locking up on me yesterday.
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rca
Torsion axle for me. I'm betting most with issues are the torsion. Just ordered replacement brake caliper assemblies for mine too. Found both of them locking up on me yesterday.
Got to love the brackish of the SBR!
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That's definitely part of it David, but I expected it. Tire wear is still wrong though.
Had it with blowing tires
Also if you back off the end of the ramp the trailer shouldn't have that much weight of the boat on it when pulling out until you get a few feet forward. The majority of the boat weight should be floating. Just don't think that they should be weak enough to bend in that situation unless they are stuck on the drop off and you are hammering the throttle
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When I ordered my boat, I had boatmate upgrade the axles by 1000# of capacity. They still twist in and out when you turn sharply at slow speed, but I wanted it for piece of mind so hopefully it pays off by way of no issues.
That was a great idea! Didn't even know you could do that.