OX1

Need a 5th goodyear trailer radial for a spare. Tried a normal LT tire once, blew out in 400 miles. Where's the best price for an east coaster. Found this place

http://shop.cedarrapidstire.com/resu...ST225%2F75R-15

Any better??

RustyJC

If you want a Goodyear, they have the all-steel construction G614 RST that's specifically recommended for commercial trailer and heavy 5th wheel RV applications. It's only available as an LT235/85R-16G (note- Load Range G - 3750 lbs @ 110 psig in single service, less as a dually). You'd need wheels rated for this load and inflation pressure as well. I have these on my current 5th wheel (OEM equipment) and they run as cool as the all-steel Michelin XPS Ribs I had on my last 5th wheel (LT235/85R-16E) that Michelin specifically recommended for commercial trailer service.

Note that in both cases above, the tires recommended by their manufacturers for commercial trailer service are an LT-labeled tire but are totally different than the typical fabric-and-steel construction pickup tire - much heavier, much cooler running, much more expensive and not prone to failure as were the ST (Marathon) or LT (Wranger HT - type) fabric-and-steel Goodyears that have come as original equipment on my previous 5th wheels.

Rusty

MikeyB

I got mine at www.tirerack.com

MikeyB

justcampin

I got tired of having tire troubles on my fifthwheel and went from a 15 inch to 16in and stopped all the tire troubles for $137 tire and wheel at http://www.etrailerpart.com/
I don't know what the shipping would be because I just picked mine up

OX1

Not sure I need that much tire, I'm pulling 8600 lbs (not a 5th wheel). Never heard the Marathons were problematic (what were the problems with them??). Anyway, I have the Marathons, they have plenty of tread left and I don't really have the bucks for 5 new tires right now, so I'l prob stick with the Marathons for the time being.

RustyJC

Lots of tread separations in 5th wheel applications. I had one separate and do $2500 damage to a 1996 Jayco Designer 3030RKSS. If you check the RV boards or do a Google search on "Goodyear Marathon tread separation", you'll be reading for quite awhile!

Rusty

OX1

Tire rack wins by 4$ so far

OX1

Just curious, what was the total weight of the 5th wheel setup??

RustyJC

About 11K, with 2.2K of that on the pin leaving 8.8K on the axles (~2200 lbs/tire). 5th wheels routinely run at 90% or more of the tire's load rating, so if a particular tire brand or model has a weakness, 5th wheel RVs are where it usually will initially show up.

By the way, I checked tire pressures in the campground before we started our trip home. 15 miles later, the Marathon came apart on I-10! Ambient temperature was about 80 degF. Goodyear admitted the tire was defective (as were the other 3), replaced all 4 and paid for the damage.

Rusty

Dave88LX

What makes a trailer tire a trailer tire? I look for tires on some sites, but not sure what to look for. I saw the e-trailer site, but shipping is about $160!!!

I need 4 tires rated for a total trailer load of around 8000-9000lbs to be safe...

Thanks,
Dave

J&L

OX1
check rv.net web and do a search on Marathons. Goodyear has spent lots of money replacing tires and repairing trailers. These tires are very problematic.
JIM

Mechanos

Shelled out the $$$ today for 5 Goodyear Marathon 225/75 R15 Load Range D tires for my 10K lowboy gooseneck. It's actually got 2 5200 lb axles under it so it actually a 10400 lb trailer. The Marathons are only rated for 2540 lbs so I'm technically giving up 120 lbs of capacity per axle, but with my load (trail rig & gear) I don't see this as a problem.

I went to my local Goodyear dealer who had 5 in stock, but when I had them pull them so I could check the production dates, one was 1605, 2 were 1705, but 2 were 2103 so I chose to keep looking. Did some calling around and found another dealer on the other side of town that also had 5 in stock: 1 - 1605, 1 - 1805, 2 - 2005, and 1 - 2905. Since these were all relatively new, I bought all 5. Shoot, one dealer I called had some '02s on the shelf.... no way I was goind to shell out for 3 year old tires. The dealer I ended up buying from wanted $124 each, but when I told them other dealers were quoting me $99 each, they matched the price for me.

The only problem I'm going to have with these tires is their height. When hitched up, my trailer sat nose high a bit with the 7.00-15 LTs that were on it. The 225/75s are shorter so the trailer sits even more nose high now. I'm either going to have to cut the spring hangers off the trailer and weld in some stock to lower them (thereby raising the deck height) or SOA the axles and readjust the coupler to level the trailer out.

Lee S

It's odd that Goodyear has had problems with Marathons. A set came with my travel trailer and they were the only set of Goodyear anythings that performed well for me. I finally replaced them after 7 years because they were so old but they had lots of tread left and had never been a problem. I got a set of unbranded Coopers to replace them and I'm not too happy with them.

belfert

I did some research on trailer tires for my single axle trailer this spring. I have Goodyear Marathons now and would only replace them since they are 4 years old. They have lots of miles left. I was going to get new Marathons, but the tire dealer was honest and said they don't need replacement yet.

My research showed that any trailer tire can fail. I saw a lot more praise for the Marathons than reports of failure. Carlisle tires seemed to have a lot of failure reports.

I have 16" Marathons on my travel trailer with no problems in 12,000 miles over 3.5 years. The 16" tires were a factory upgrade even though the sticker on the trailer shows 15" tires.

Brian Elfert

csramsey640

Raymonds Tire, Pleasant Gap PA. Has a very good selection of trailer tires, and really good prices