Trailer Tires

A friend gave me 6 brand new mounted mobile home tires. They are 7-14.5 with load range D, 1875lbs. capacity and take 70lbs. of air. They are Goodyear and say in block lettering FOR MOBILE HOME USE ONLY. My question is can I use these on my equipment trailer that has the same size tires, 7-14.5LT? What is the difference in the tires? Seems a shame to see them go to waste. Thanks, Allan.
 
What part of MOBIL HOME USE ONLY do you not understand??????
They are the cheapest built tires that will hold air, designed for in essence one trip.
Look at a "shanty shaker" on the road sometime. They know about the quality of the tires & carry a dozen or more spares.
If spotted by DOT you have two choices before moving- have legal tires delivered & installed, or load the whole kaboodle on another trailer with legal tires. That is after getting a very expensive ticket & "out of service" sticker.
End of rant.
Willie
 
My old trailer had mobile home axels under it and I found some like new tires off a mobile home and I asked the DOT trooper if I could use them. He looked at them and he showed me a stamp on them that said DOT and some numbers so he said they were legal. he also said that if he pull over a mobile home and there is no DOT stamp on the tire nothing moves till the correct tires are on there. This is Wisconsin so your mileage may differ. Also the mobil home tire that I had were 8 ply.

Bob
 
My experience was short and not so sweet. I bought a mobile home in 1979. I knew I wouldn't be moving the thing any time soon so I took the opportunity to pull a couple of the axles and built a trailer. It was a single axle, I used the springs as well. Everything looked pretty good until I started using the thing. I never could get the tires "balanced" where they didn't bounce all over the place. Then I found out that the bearings in these things are substandard at best. About all it was good for was hauling junk at slow speeds. I persisted and kept using it for a few years. After several failures of the tires, and just plain getting tired of being able to see air under the tread over 40mph I pulled the axle and built one, using the front hubs off an old pickup I had scrapped out. Never again. The saying proved to be true: Sometimes you do get what you pay for....
 
1875 lbs. isn't much of a rating. I think mine are around 3450. I run used truck tires on my trailer with good luck.
 
I think those tires are as good as any. Just because they are 14.5 doesn't make them bad. Need to look on the tire and see how old it is. Some of those trailer tires are 20 yrs old. Just because the tires came on a new home is no sign the tires are new. They take the axles, tires and hitches off and send them back to the factory. So there is no telling how old the tires are or how many trips they have made. And yes they use them as long as they will hold air. We had a grain trailer with 3 axles of 14.5 tires. Finally broke down and bought 6 new tires, never had any more trouble. hauled 18000 to 20000 lb every trip. Vic
 
Ask the guys that pull them and most of them will tell you they are junk. Did you ever see how many spare tires they carry on their toters?
 
The single axle and the mobile home springs were the
prob, the axle is fine but springs are way way too
stiff for a single axle trailer
 
What ever you decide keep them inflated to max recomended pressure, and they will last, under inflation causes heat that causes KABOOM ! I have used them for many years and no more trouble than regular trailer tires.
 

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