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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Had it with blowing tires
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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Had it with blowing tires
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.