Garry&Gayle
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I have 4 yr old Carlisle on my flatbed load range E 2 seperations within a month of each other going with Maxxis now
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LostinAZ
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I would not recommend Carlisle Tires for anything. I had them on my two axle 10,500 GVWR Equipment trailer and they all failed in the first two years. I would recommend buying any name American made brand that has a load rating higher at least one higher than your Trailers GVWR
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CND SuperCrew
SK, Canada
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Hello Ron,
Thank you for your interest in Maxxis Tires. Our trailer tire are rather hard to come by in Canada, we are currently trying to address this issue.
Big O Tires may be able to help you out with getting these tire for you and I believe they do have a store in Sk area.
Please contact www.gobigo.ca to find the closest dealer to you.
Best regards,
Steve
Closest place is in BC 
Ron, Lori and Autumn
TV 2012 F150 loaded XLT EB SuperCrew 7700GVWR Maxtow 6.5'
TT 2008 Jayflight G2 23FB/ Equal-i-zer WD
2013 Colorado bound
2012- 4000km, 28 nights for the season 
2011- OR & CA done, 6800km in 3 weeks
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JJBIRISH
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Distribution and the lack of it is Maxxis biggest problem… I don’t know why they can’t solve their problem with it, but it hasn’t improved much since they told me 2 years ago they were working on it and had several unnamed national distributors in the wings to come on board… they have to loosen up the territorial rights they give their distributors a little…
For example I can’t buy a UE168 locally because there is no distributor for them here… the closest distributor for them can’t sell and ship them to me because I am not in his territory and not all models are available for on-line sales either…
One distributor I talked to was only licensed to sell their off road tires…
Until they change that there will always be problems finding some tires in some locations…
Love my mass produced, entry level, built by Lazy American Workers, Hornet
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camperforlife
Midwest
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I think you will find that Carlisle makes some really cheap tires that should never be installed on a travel trailer and they make some pretty decent tires. The problem is that trailer manufacturers look for that cheap tire for the OEM applications and that gives them a bad rep with the TT crowd who will not consider investing in their better grade tire.
I had Carlisle step up after a blow out on a Starcraft and admit that the tire that came from Starcraft should never had been sold on that size TT but that was what Starcraft requested. They (Carlisle)replaced all 5 with a better grade tire that were still on the trailer when I traded it many thousands of miles later.
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JIMNLIN
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What size/load range are your present tires ??
"good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" ............ Will Rogers
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dodge guy
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I replaced my cheap generic china tires with Carlisles. From my research the only Carlisles I have read about with issues are "C"`s and "D"`s. I have "E" rated Carlisle that have over 7k miles on them with about 4 long trips, 2 of them over 2k miles each. and 12 straight hours of driving one of those being in the mid 90`s. they still look good and show no signs of failure. I keep them aired up to 75 psi.
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Water-Bug
Traverse City, Michigan
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crickeydog wrote:I wouldn't run Carlisle's on my garden tractor!
Happy camping!!! See y'all down the road!!!
Swear to God this is the truth. I got my wheelbarrow out of the garage for the first time this year, yesterday. It had a flat tire, so I aired it up. This morning, it was flat again. You guessed it, Carlisle.
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Lowsuv
Oregon
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You did not say so I will guess that your current tires are ST 205/75R 15 load range C.
I run Michelins on my Carrera, Benz and Duramax.
That said I would use ANY brand of tire in an 225/75 load range E.
Going to a tire with a much greater load capacity especially in a load range E will be the best move you can make.
Your 205 C has a load rating of 1820. An 225 load range E is 2830 pounds.
http://www.carlisletire.com/products/trailer/radial_trail/index.html
Note also that a 205 LRC tire weighs 25 # and a 225 LRE weighs 30.5#
I have Carlisle on my boat trailer. I increased my wheel diameter by an inch and went to Load Range D. This works really good. I tow my boat long distances , often at night. I do not carry a spare on my boat trailer. I have been towing boats since my first new car a 1972 suburban 402 and my first boat a 1972 Sea Ray.
I have had no tire failures since about 1980 when I started upgrading my trailer tires to the highest rating available that fit. It is about a 10 hour drive from Bend to the Delta. Leave Bend about 4 pm Thursday and return from Rio Vista Sunday about 5 pm. Three days on the water and not that much traffic on the road.
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CND SuperCrew
SK, Canada
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Currently there is 205-75-15 C and was going to go up to a 225-75-15 D as my TT is only 6k loaded
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