The Sendel wheels are only $66 in 15 inch and $80 for the 16 inch at Gearworks Manufacturing where I bought mine. Small difference but if you buy 5 it adds up!
Not sure if you got a special on shipping, but after you add their normal shipping to those prices it's basically the same as what I paid at a local dealer.
There are some good, reliable Asian tires, and some dangerous junk. There are no U.S. made ST trailer tires any more...Cooper left the market in 2005, although there might be some new-old-stock remaining.
16" wheels and LT235/85R16 Load Range E highway rib-tread tires are an excellent choice, but gets really pricey of the 15" hubs don't fit the 16" wheels...new brake drums are needed in addition to wheels and tires. wheels Brake drums
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The Sendel wheels are only $66 in 15 inch and $80 for the 16 inch at Gearworks Manufacturing where I bought mine. Small difference but if you buy 5 it adds up!
Not sure if you got a special on shipping, but after you add their normal shipping to those prices it's basically the same as what I paid at a local dealer.
No special deal for me on shipping! When I bought them I didn't know the brand. There were no other local options in that weight rating! Still, I saved the 8.7% sales tax by mail ordering.
Kenneth wrote: There are some good, reliable Asian tires, and some dangerous junk. There are no U.S. made ST trailer tires any more...Cooper left the market in 2005, although there might be some new-old-stock remaining.
16" wheels and LT235/85R16 Load Range E highway rib-tread tires are an excellent choice, but gets really pricey of the 15" hubs don't fit the 16" wheels...new brake drums are needed in addition to wheels and tires. wheels Brake drums
I'm not sure I understand the part about the 15" hubs not fitting the 16" wheels. When I upgraded to 16 inch wheels from 15's mine fit fine. Did not have to buy new hubs.
On edit: If someone was going from a 5 lug 15 to a 6 lug 16, then they would have to buy new hubs.
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Yet another post about someone changing perfectly good brand new tires because of the mania on this forum about tires. I just dont get it, why would you do this. Quit listening to all the doom and gloom on the forum about tire issues.
Yes a few posters report tire failures, however very few can say with any degree of certanty what caused it, its always easiest to say "cheap chinese tires". Any number of factors could have caused these failures, inflation, overloading, over the speed limit of the tire, road debris or a combination of them.
The number of posters here reporting tire failures are a small percentage of the RV population in toto. I have had many years of good luck with the dreaded Carlisle tires, I wonder why that is?
Save your money, use your brand new tires until they need replacing and go camping.
A newbie to this forum. I'm not complaining about tires as I've ruined one with my first trailer but I write that off a ignorance on my part as, even though it was explained to me, I didn't appreciate the sermon I got from my dealer about loads, tire pressures and the like until a real world education took place. Now I watch my tires like a hawk.
Now with that said, we have a 31' 5th wheel, dual axle, from Forrest River and am otherwise very happy with it. We pull it with a F-250 diesel and have mainly explored Eastern Texas. We've had it for about 18 months.
What I found absolutely crazy was DW and I noted it was tad down on one side in the storage yard where we keep it (covered, on level ground, w/ power). We show up Saturday to bring the tires up with the portable compressor I have and low and behold, one tire is dead flat on the left side and the other is but a few pounds behind. No biggie I thought, I'll just fill them up. Wrong. The minute I put any stress on the valves they crack and start leaking. Sensing an issue, I move to the next tire, start to fill and sure enough, it comes loose. I already have a dead tire, now a second one the same side following suit. I have a 3 ton floor jack, fairly dedicated for the trailer but no cheater bar for T-bar to loosen the zillion-foot-pounds the lug nuts were put on with. I applied some WD40 to the lug nuts and came back the next morning with a long bar and 1/2" drive and cheater bar to help.
To make a long story short, this was good for us in a way as this trailer is new to us and we had yet to have a "road issue" where we had to pull a tire off, let alone two. So we now have procedures to deal with tires. I did take note that the axle's are not jack points! I used the center lift point between the Axles.
All in all we ended up doing all 5 tires. The guy at NTB told us, with concern, that the stems originally put on (by Forrest River) were standard low pressure stems, not rated much above 40 PSI. For a mere $5 a tire we had high pressure stems put on all 5 tires. None of the tires were damaged (from being flat) and didn't need replacing (Towmax tires) but for killing an afternoon and $25 later, we have what could have been a potential hazardous issue fixed and have been through tire changing so there is an upside to all of this - practice a tire change!
IF they guy from NTB is right, why would FR let a trailer out of the yard with these kind of stems?
What I didn't say was that the right side had the same issues - the minute I went to fill, the stem cracked and started leaking. Without much effort on my part, I could have easily ended up with trailer w/ 4 flat tires.
Sorry to be so long winded but I'm just glad this occurred in the storage yard and not on the road.
David
Pearland, TX
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Arnie - Ford F-250 Diesel 4WD
Maria - 31' FR WildCat
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First insist on 16 inch wheels. There is a larger variety of usable tires for a 16 inch rim than for a 15 inch rim.
Next deal for a set of Michelin XPS or BF Goodrich Commercial T/As in the size you need (LT225/75R16?).
Last, because you cannot tell if you have a flat on a dual axle trailer easily (like you can with a flat on the tow vehicle) buy a Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS).
And for those who say the TPMS is a waste of money and that they have been towing for years without problems, I'll bet they have overpowered diesel trucks, power steering, power brakes automatic transmissions and AC.
Our fathers didn't and they managed to get over the same mountains on much rougher road.
Road Trip
RandACampin wrote: Yet another post about someone changing perfectly good brand new tires because of the mania on this forum about tires. I just dont get it, why would you do this. Quit listening to all the doom and gloom on the forum about tire issues.
Yes a few posters report tire failures, however very few can say with any degree of certanty what caused it, its always easiest to say "cheap chinese tires". Any number of factors could have caused these failures, inflation, overloading, over the speed limit of the tire, road debris or a combination of them.
The number of posters here reporting tire failures are a small percentage of the RV population in toto. I have had many years of good luck with the dreaded Carlisle tires, I wonder why that is?
Save your money, use your brand new tires until they need replacing and go camping.
-rog
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