larry barnhart
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The Michelin story was they do not advise a passenger car tire on a fifth but as was said DRV uses a Michelin J tire. never saw a J tire on a car so the story continues. We are on our 2nd set of G 614's and the alpenlite came with G-159's with no tire problems yet but I do take care of them. Not hitting the curbs or running with low air pressure seems to help. I also keep the tires over 110 lbs when sitting. I did read the weight of tires and some are very low as the duro's on the carriage E tires. Nothing but a rag I think.
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45Ricochet
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They will serve you well.
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FastEagle
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me2 wrote:I put cheap generic rebranded LT265/75R16s LREs on our 2011 Chaparral 355. They have a load rating of 3420 lbs, just like any other LT265/75.
The trailer weighs about 13K. I pulled it a bunch last summer with zero problems. I am very happy I did so.
I hope you have the right rims. The minimum rim width for those tires is 7".
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steelpony5555
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I think the Michelin article is BS since a lot of higher end trailers come with LT's right from the factory. My Alpenlite came with Goodyear Wranglers on it...It's right on the yellow side sticker, LT tires.
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joebedford
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mguay wrote:From what I've read here...failure rates are somewhere like 80% China Bombs, 30% G614s and minimal LTs. On my old trailer, the failure rates were 100% China Bombs, 100% LT, 0% G614s.
Current trailer 0% China Bombs (10000 miles so far)
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me2
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I put cheap generic rebranded LT265/75R16s LREs on our 2011 Chaparral 355. They have a load rating of 3420 lbs, just like any other LT265/75.
The trailer weighs about 13K. I pulled it a bunch last summer with zero problems. I am very happy I did so.
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