No Warning Tire Failures UPDATE

[marcsbigfoot20b]

Was driving up in the mountains of AZ yesterday up to the rim when I heard a belt squeal like sound for a second and felt like a transmission shift.
Watched the gauges, nothing abnormal, told the GF I would pull over when I find a spot to check under the hood.....had to drive another 5 miles for a turnout. During this time I was passed by numerous vehicles as I was doing 63-65 mph AND WAS NOT FLAGGED BY ANYONE. Popped the hood and didn’t notice anything. Took a walk around to check the tires......

Still had 80 psi in it. Right rear 4 year old Carlisle radial trail RH. Guess it’s time to replace the rest.




Well on the way home from camping to discount tire, BAM another tire exact same deal, still had 80 psi in it but this one blew a hole in my floor.

[profdant139]

marc, it is painful to see that hole in the floor. Good luck with the Endurance. We replaced our old Marathons with the Endurance -- after 15,000 miles, so far, so good.

[time2roll]

Floor is easy fix. Cover it up and move on.
Looks to have missed the wires and plumbing, BTDT.

[marcsbigfoot20b]

Removed the Carlisle China bombs and had Goodyear Endurance ties installed. Hopefully they are not USA bombs. The ride home today is gonna cost me after that tire blew a hole in my floor.

[K-9_HANDLER]

gmw photos wrote:

K-9 HANDLER wrote:

TravelinDog wrote:
What kind of tire life are you guys that run LT tires getting?

Had set of Uniroyal Laredos on a trailer and they were from the 80s and replaced them around 2009. Still had tread but rubber got rock hard

Same here with an old set of Laredos on one of our horse trailers. Had probably about 50K miles. Still had tread, but were hard and weather cracking. They were over ten years old. Replaced with F-stone Transforce about five years ago, and these have about 20K miles and still look new.

The LT's on my travel trailer are five years old now and have about 50K miles. About half the tread remains.

The LT's ( GY Wrangler HT ) on my other horse trailer are only two years old ( put on to replace the Provider ST's when the trailer was new ) and only have about 10K miles, so it's hard to make a judgement on their life as of now.

Few people, even fairly high mileage users will wear out a LT on a travel trailer. Most likely will age them out at 8 to 10 years.

Yup loved those Laredos.
I have a livestock trailer that is almost 10 years old that came new with off brand LTs. Plenty of loaded miles and they are showing some wear but are holding up well.

[K-9_HANDLER]

Hannibal wrote:

K-9 HANDLER wrote:
Had a trailer tire sidewall fail while it was parked at home. Just came out one day and found it flat and it was a LT tire.
Had a set of Duro bias that I ran for 9 years never had a problem.

Have you run bias ply and radials on the same trailer? Just curious if you could tell the difference towing with handling or fuel mileage. I keep thinking of going with bias ply on our TT when the time comes.

Yes have run both on travel trailer and I didnt notice any difference. The duros served me well.

[Grit_dog]

mosseater wrote:
The sidewall of that tire tells me everything I need to know without reading date codes. Really???? You were driving on that?

Lol, what exactly is it saying to you? Is it saying its full of brake dust on the inside pic and not armor allied on the outside?
Love the inane entertainment here!

[gmw_photos]

K-9 HANDLER wrote:

TravelinDog wrote:
What kind of tire life are you guys that run LT tires getting?

Had set of Uniroyal Laredos on a trailer and they were from the 80s and replaced them around 2009. Still had tread but rubber got rock hard

Same here with an old set of Laredos on one of our horse trailers. Had probably about 50K miles. Still had tread, but were hard and weather cracking. They were over ten years old. Replaced with F-stone Transforce about five years ago, and these have about 20K miles and still look new.

The LT's on my travel trailer are five years old now and have about 50K miles. About half the tread remains.

The LT's ( GY Wrangler HT ) on my other horse trailer are only two years old ( put on to replace the Provider ST's when the trailer was new ) and only have about 10K miles, so it's hard to make a judgement on their life as of now.

Few people, even fairly high mileage users will wear out a LT on a travel trailer. Most likely will age them out at 8 to 10 years.

[JIMNLIN]

TravelinDog wrote:
What kind of tire life are you guys that run LT tires getting?

I used nothing but LT tires on my small 7 trailer fleet when I had my construction business ('80s). I was using ST tires but they simply were too expensive to use. Most never saw 20k miles before either worn out of they came apart. With only 9 or 10/32 on tread on a new ST tire they didn't make cents/sense for this type of work. LT tires have 15-16/32nds for a much longer tread life and much cooler running. Tires run hot as the tread wears away and gets closer to the carcass plies.
Truck tire dealer moved all my trailers to LT tires on my heavy GN trailers with 5k/6k axles or P tires on small 7k/3500 lb axles cargo trailers I used as on site tool trailers. Cut my monthly tire costs 90 percent. That was huge for a on the road business.
LT tires on trailers isn't anything new. We used P and LT before ST tires hit the streets.
My current '97 11200 lb trailer has 16" LT tires (3rd set) with around 15k-18k miles. Ran the first set for 7 years and 55k miles.....ran the 2nd set for 52k miles and just over 7 years...no issues.

[ReneeG]

4 years on our Towmax's and recent inspection says they are good.

[wanderingbob]

99% of tire failures are " No Warning Tire Failures ".

[Hannibal]

K-9 HANDLER wrote:
Had a trailer tire sidewall fail while it was parked at home. Just came out one day and found it flat and it was a LT tire.
Had a set of Duro bias that I ran for 9 years never had a problem.

Have you run bias ply and radials on the same trailer? Just curious if you could tell the difference towing with handling or fuel mileage. I keep thinking of going with bias ply on our TT when the time comes.

[marcsbigfoot20b]

Date code is 2914 and maybe 3-4 K miles on them, but most of those are hot AZ miles. All tires have 80 psi in them all the time. I guess 4 years is the limit and they will get replaced next week when I get back (just got up here).

They don’t make theses anymore so from RH to HD model to match the one HD I had to get last year, nail in tire.

[K-9_HANDLER]

TravelinDog wrote:
What kind of tire life are you guys that run LT tires getting?

Had set of Uniroyal Laredos on a trailer and they were from the 80s and replaced them around 2009. Still had tread but rubber got rock hard

[azdryheat]

4 years on my Michelin's and they're wearing fine.