I haven't had any problems yet, but with the following comments, will replace as soon as the $$ allows. How much $$ would I be looking at for a set of 4 quality tires?

 

most trailer shops sell a 15 rim and E tire for $75 around here.
mounted, but not balanced.

home cheapo has the same combo (load master tire?) for $100 in the lawn mower sectoin.


Wally World prolly has them.

 

I have made 4 trips down the Baja 1 to the grand canyon 3 to pismo beach 5 to fort brag 1 to little grass valley and many other places with the same carlisle tires on my 24'TT and have had only 1 flat (nail) and the tires still look good but im putting new ones on because there 5 years old now. why or what is the problem every one is having? or did I just get a good set?

 

I've heard that Carlisle makes 2 grades of tire..."Cheap" and "not Cheap". The cheap ones are trash, and are an accident waiting to happen. Supposedly the "not cheap" ones are at best ok. Not good, or great. Just ok.

 

I have Carlisles on my car hauler and haven't had any problems with them coming apart, but they sure aren't wearing very well. I plan on replacing them anyway since they're barely rated high enough for the load.

 

Just yesterday I had a blow out on my 29' boat trailer. It's funny how these threads pop up at the same time.

 

I had three 235 85 16 E come apart last week.Makes for a fun trip.They were less than 2 yrs old so playing with warranty now.

 

Some more "useless/ful" info. I went to Vegas today for a race. Pulled the car to work so I could leave straight from there. Grabbed my temp gun as I left work. The tire temp just sitting (on the trailer starting at LF, LR, RR, RF) was 150-150-116-116. Pretty easy to see which side of the trailer was on the sunny side. The ambient temp was 112, but the pavement temp was 148 right by the trailer on the sunny side. Drove five miles to fuel up and checked them again. 143-147-138-138. Next the fun part. Pulling from our 500ft elevation up a pass that is around 3400ft in about 18 miles. Five miles into the pull and EGT was at 1150 and the engine temp was above 3/4. Turned the a/c off to get the temp down a little. While I had the window down...and wondering why I live somewhere so danged hot...I got a temp sample off the highway. 150 degrees! That doesn't exactly help a cooling system when your trying to transfer heat (I did pass by a duramax pulling a horse trailer that was on the side of the road with the hood up). Made it to the next stop 50 miles away and pulled off to check the tires. The ambient temp was 99 (approx 4000ft elevation) and the tires were: 139-144-147-142. Tonight coming home (lost third round w/t bad light) I checked the pavement temp before stopping. It was 88. Checked all the tires and they were around 112-116. I know that heat is a major enemy of a tire, but there isn't a whole lot I can do about it. It's just hot down here and that's not going to change. I'm just curious on "how hot is too hot"?

 

Those of you interested in the Goodyear Marathon trailer tires might want to consider the "Towmaster's " by Greenball. They go down the same assembly line as the Goodyear's. Kind of like the Chevy trucks and the GMC trucks. Both go down the same assembly line.
The only difference is the name stamped on the side & the price.

When you buy the Goodyears, you are paying for the advertising and the "Blimp". To give you an idea of the price differences, Camping World, in their latest flyer, has the Goodyear Marathon's, 225-75-15D for a reg. price of $132.23 & the "club price" of $119.00.

I was able to get the Towmaster's for $62.00/ea. at Dealers Tire Supply, Inc. in Phoenix. That's a savings of $70.23 off the "reg. price" & $57.00 off the "club price". It pays to shop!!! BTW, I don't have any connections with this company. Just called for a price & that's what they sold them to me for. I even told them I was not a retailer.

Another thing, the "old" Goodyear Marathon's "blew-up" quite frequently, also. They originaly had Polyester & Steel ply's in the tread surface. When they got hot, they expanded enough to compromise the tire. A few years back, they started putting an outer ply of nylon on the tread surface,also. Apparently, nylon does not expand when hot and it acts like a "girdle", holding everything together. It seems to be working. I don't hear of many Goodyear's detonating anymore.

I hope this info. helps some of you guy's that will be doing a little tire shopping.

Joe F.(Buffalo)

 

I got a set of Marathons 225/75-15c for $72.00ea total $320.00 w/ups
from Tire Rack http://www.tirerack.com/tires/Sizes....arathon+Radial
Bob

 

I've never worn out a Carlisle tire. The tread seperates very nice though. Does a number on the trailers when the belts whip everything near by.

I've been running these: http://www.tbcprivatebrands.com/mult...e_c.asp?id=109

They are made by TBC who make Power King, Wild Country and a few others. So far so good. I've also had good results running Cooper Discovery LTs on my equipment trailer.

 

A little late, but Ill add my $0.02 as well.. I have a Flagstaff popup that came with Carlisle tires (170/85R13in C rated).. Had one blow last July (no camper damage), which was replaced by Carlisle under warranty. Last month had the other two original tires blow on a trip from Myrtle Beach - damaged the camper to the tune of about $900 (plus another $100 for road service and replacement tire so I had a spare)... I thought I may have overloaded the camper but it had an axle weight of 2,500 lbs (tires/axle rated at about 2,700) - tires had the max cold air pressure of 50 psi.. So with less than 3,000 miles on a camper all of the original tires have blown..

I am not happy at all with Carlisles, but most every place locally only carries carlisle.. I am still researching tires, but the Duros and Greenballs seem to get positive comments a lot..

I am not running any more carlisles....

good luck

 

Did I mess up buying Titans the other day? Gotta 3500 lb boat we tow to Canada two times a year,500 mile each way.Mike

 

Thanks again guys I just looked at a larger trailer 8x16 for my business and noticed Carlisle tires on it. Thanks "I 'll buy it, ONLY, if it has Good years".

I knew I read it here first

 

I too had 2 carlyles blow last year on a trip back from Traverse City with my 10000 lb triple axle steel boat trailer.

Tomorrow I am going to upgrade from 14 inch C's to 15 inch D's. I'm not going to get Carlyles.