ramblineagle
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What type of tires do most of you use on your goose neck or bumper hitch trailer,
radial or bias ply? Trailer rated or just tires designed for pick ups? Mine is a
14,000lb rated trailer.
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What type of tires do most of you use on your goose neck or bumper hitch trailer,
radial or bias ply? Trailer rated or just tires designed for pick ups? Mine is a
14,000lb rated trailer.
showcrop
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This is one of those topics with no clear consensus. I have run radials on my trailers for probably the last twenty years. I had wear problems with the originals on my 22,400 gooseneck that was almost always running fully loaded. My viewpoint is that you are best of with trailer tires that have a rating on the sidewall consistent with your trailer load.
My trailer is a bumper pull 14,000lb deckover that is 6 years old and tires are E rated and not showing any signs of weathering and are kept at 80 lbs all year round. If I was to replace them I would go with a G rated trailer tire which will care 4,400 lbs. @ 110 lbs. pressure per tire compared to the 3,200 lbs.@ 80 lbs. pressure of the E rated tire. Trailer tires do have heavier side walls and don't have the sway factor that the automotive tire. To get a tire that will carry max load on a 14,000lb. trailer you need an F (12 ply) or G (14 ply) rated tire.
My 14,000 lb bumper hitch deckover has never hauled much over half it's rated capacity and a lot of roads here in Maine have a steep crown that will get the trailer wagging it's tail. I run 55 lbs. in the four tires. Our truck is a Ram 1500 can't say enough good about this truck it does a great job for us. After reading this post will look into maybe more tire pressure.
Just put new Hercules H-901 G rated trailer tires on my gooseneck trailer. Pulled it 3 hours away and ran straight/smootgh as could be (I do have my trailer tires balanced too). I'd recommend them so far. On vehicles I haven't had a Hercules that's been junk so I imagine these will be fine.
Back when bias ply tires were all we had I had a number of them with tread separation. With radials when tire hit its max mileage get off because steel belts are breaking down and will start to come through tread of tire. I have had several 60,000 mile tires at just over 60,000miles on them and run your hand over them at get stuck wire belts coming through tread. They also get squirrely when steel belts break down.
john in la
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I run balanced radial trailer tires with a speed rating of at least L or higher and a proper ply to hold the weight.
The reason most trailer tires fail.
They are over loaded.
They are not rated for the speed that people use them.
The reason most trailer tires fail.
They are over loaded.
They are not rated for the speed that people use them.
T in NE
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- Cambridge, Nebraska
I'll second 14 ply. If not, decent LT pick-up tires.
Stephen Newell
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They tell you to replace a radial tire every six years regardless of tire wear. I believe it because my trailer fenders are beat all to H from them delaminating. A radial tire is like buying a retread where a bias tire will usually last until the tread wears out with no problems. I put bias tires on my trailer 10 years ago and because I not pulling the trailer daily the tires have a lot of tread left. Then I have bias tires on my jeep I bought in 1998. The tread is about gone but I don't worry about them.
I heard the "6 year rule" a lot. I was going to be the one to disprove it. I kept the load range E tires on my dump trailer properly inflated, and protected from sunlight.
I have a routine when refueling while towing a trailer that I always feel the tires to see if they're hot, and visually inspect them. When the trailer was barely 7 years old I went through my routine while refueling the truck. The profile of one tire was more wedge shaped than crowned. The rest of the tires looked fine. I slowly drove 18 miles to the next town where I knew there was a tire store. A second tire developed the same problem!
I bought 2 new load range E trailer radials. The guy at the tire store said the life expectancy of trailer radials was 2-6 years. He suggested bias ply trailer tires but didn't have any in stock. Not long after returning from that trip I bought new Carlisle load range E bias ply tires.
I have a routine when refueling while towing a trailer that I always feel the tires to see if they're hot, and visually inspect them. When the trailer was barely 7 years old I went through my routine while refueling the truck. The profile of one tire was more wedge shaped than crowned. The rest of the tires looked fine. I slowly drove 18 miles to the next town where I knew there was a tire store. A second tire developed the same problem!
I bought 2 new load range E trailer radials. The guy at the tire store said the life expectancy of trailer radials was 2-6 years. He suggested bias ply trailer tires but didn't have any in stock. Not long after returning from that trip I bought new Carlisle load range E bias ply tires.
Not sure what you mean. Bias ply Carlisle are now over 7 years old and haven't had any problems with them. I highly recommend them.
And the radial spare for my trailer which had never been used blew out. No more radial trailer tires for me. Car and truck tires? That's a different story.
I spent 22 years owning a tire shop. 14 or 16 ply Radial tires on everything that gets any amount of miles put on it. Bias ply if it gets a couple of hundred miles on it every year. Bias ply tire do have tread seps, just like radials, just not as often. They just blow out. If you want to go heavy duty, upgrade your trailer to 17" tires and rims. The tires are almost indestructible.
To get true 14K carrying capacity you need a tire that has #3500 pounds of load rating.
235/75-16 tires do not go that high.
I put 265/70-16 Firestone Transforce on my 14K gooseneck. just did 1300 mile round trip to Tunica, MS with an 8500 pound tractor.
When these are 6 years old I will put on another set. Before these tires I would start blowing tires after 2 years. Since I upgraded to load capability matching the trailer no problems in 4 years.
Fill them to max cold PSI of 80 to get full load capability.
235/75-16 tires do not go that high.
I put 265/70-16 Firestone Transforce on my 14K gooseneck. just did 1300 mile round trip to Tunica, MS with an 8500 pound tractor.
When these are 6 years old I will put on another set. Before these tires I would start blowing tires after 2 years. Since I upgraded to load capability matching the trailer no problems in 4 years.
Fill them to max cold PSI of 80 to get full load capability.
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