Trailer tires???

I need some tires for my flatbed. It currently has 205/75-15 on it and a couple of them are out of round. Can anyone suggest a good brand of tire that won’t break the bank? I would be ok with 225/70-15 also. I have been looking around a bit and they either have bad reviews or are several years old.

I might have some used car tires lined up on facebook, but they are a bit light for a full load.

 

What load rating do you need? What’s the gross weight of the trailer?

 

I've had travel (camping) trailers for the last 30+ years in addition to equipment trailers, and for the last 20 years or so I've used the Maxxis M8008 tires and been really happy with them. I replace them on my travel trailer at 7 years or so and rotate them onto equipment trailers, because you do NOT want a tire failure on a travel trailer, as they trash the trailer.

Maxxis makes the 205/75R15 in a B (1820 lb.) or C (2150 lb.) load range, and if you shop around online you can usually get them almost as cheap as the generic "China-bomb" trailer tires.

The relatively new Goodyear Endurance trailer tires have proven to be much better tires than their later Marathons were, but they're fairly pricey.

Good luck!

 

Ah crap, you just reminded me that my motorcycle trailer tires are getting decrepit.

 

I would expect that's another application where you want to make sure you're riding on good tires!

 

pretty sure they are 3,500 lb axles, so 7k.

 

I've had good luck with this seller and brand of trailer tires. Just put 4 16" tires on the dump trailer...1 New Trailer King Rst Ii - St205/75r15 Tires 2057515 205 75 15 | eBay
1 New Trailer King Rst Ii - St225/75r15 Tires 2257515 225 75 15 | eBay

 

The trailer just sits for the most part. One of those there if I need it type things, but I have to remember that it needs to be *ready when I need it and not just there.

 

I had two pickup truck tires separate tread within about 500 miles of each other, starting as a lump in the tread that I picked up on while driving. The second had started to peel apart like a retread by the time I got stopped in a safe place. The tires were about 10 years old at the time, lots of tread left with little outwards signs of aging (always parked in a shed), and had never been abused. The belt wires that I could see were rusty, almost as if water had worked its way in and rusted them to failure. I always wonder if the same failure would have occured on a non-steel-belt radial.

Since then, I've always been particular about the age of tires on things that matter. My smaller utility trailer and the farm dump trailer that almost never sees pavement get the cast-off aged out tires.

 

Yeah steel belted tires have a couple other disadvantages. They are heck on saw chains, and the steel belts don’t burn, so you have to clean them out of the stove. Oh and you have to be careful about the sparks starting fires, if you’re cutting them up around dry grass

Nylon belted tires, nylon belted tires are much easier to cut into stove size pieces, and they don’t mess up your chains doing it, and there’s no belts left over to clean out of the stove

I’ve found that the cut up tires burn better, if I get a good fire going with old railroad ties before adding the tire chunks. Also old railroad ties split small and soaked in used motor oil, make Excellent kindling, you don’t even need any newspaper to get it going


Doug

 

Best satire I’ve read in a long time

 

Satire?
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Doug

 

Whatchyou talkin bout Willis



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Doug

 

These if they come in the size you need
We run them on about 8 trailers at work.
Wear like iron
14ply carcases
Hercules H 901

 

Here's a great deal on a set of 4. Hmm..
www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Fuzion&tireModel=Trailer&partnum=075NR5FUZST&GCID=C13674x012-tire&KEYWORD=tires.jsp_Fuzion_Trailer_Tire&code=yes&ef_id=Cj0KCQjwlrvBBhDnARIsAHEQgOTOHEmqqfYVOSrb5ouXUinE9ng1YQnGrvrDE9HwzYVYWzVxLznBiscaAg7nEALw_wcB:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!3756!3!!!!x!!&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19641426407&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlrvBBhDnARIsAHEQgOTOHEmqqfYVOSrb5ouXUinE9ng1YQnGrvrDE9HwzYVYWzVxLznBiscaAg7nEALw_wcB

I've used fuzion tires on vehicles, not trailers, and they've been great. Fuzion are made by Bridgestone. I would have no concerns about these based on my experience with their vehicle tires.

I've used prime well, Carlisle, Kenda, towmax and Goodyear trailer tires. The only ones I wouldn't buy again are Goodyear. They are overpriced, and the only ones I've had that had bulge or delamination failures. Granted, none were catastrophic, but still.

 

Ive read that car tires do not do well on multi axle trailers. They’re not designed for the sideways torque they receive when backing on corners. A single axle trailer maybe but a blowout on a single axle can be catastrophic.

edit, another point to possibly consider,,,things may be different where you live but here in Ct it’s difficult to find an installer to install used tires that are older than five years. I think it’s an insurance thing not a specific law.

 

Yes, the side torque from turning is a big deal. I never really paid much attention until getting my bigger boat last year. That front tire of a dual axle really gets skidded sideways on the inside corners.

OP is in Wisconsin, rural WI for that matter. There's less issues finding a shop that will mount used tires here.

 

I get all my tars for free here in the rual flatlands of Iowa. If the methheads from town dont dump them in the ditches around here in the middle of the night all I gotta do is drive my gravel roads and get them offa fence posts. Most of the later are all white lettering. They say "No Hunting."