OT trailer tires

David G · Apr 14, 2014

I am planning to replace the 10 year old tires on my boat trailer. I researched the ST's and found they are limited to 65 MPH. It looks like they have stronger sidewalls.

What do you think?

Tom Bond · Apr 14, 2014

If you got 10 years on one set of trailer tires, I'd be looking for the same ones! Holy crap, I got only 3 years out of the ones on my little 6X10 enclosed.

uncle henry · Apr 14, 2014

i had a set for eight years pulled the trailer any where from 3 mph to 110 mph avg. 70 mpg

bobs old iron · Apr 14, 2014

funny you are posting this, i just went and looked/buy 4 st225-75-15 tires with 300 miles, owmer went to LT tires to drive and haul quads on his trailer,,,being said, if tires have a speed rating at 65 mph,, depending on size and lenth, is it really safe to be going over 65mph depending on load...my .02... i'll be safe at 60>65 mph, plus saving fuel at a lower speed.....

David G · Apr 14, 2014

I had one blow out on me last summer, just a little jumpy now.

Eldon (WA) · Apr 14, 2014

(quoted from post at 19:01:35 04/14/14) I am planning to replace the 10 year old tires on my boat trailer. I researched the ST's and found they are limited to 65 MPH. It looks like they have stronger sidewalls.

What do you think?

I have run 10 ply LT tires on my PJ 14K trailers for the last 10 years with no problems (they came with them from the factory on the first 2) I sell and buy new every 5 years for tax purposes, and the tires still look like new with around 40 to 50,000 miles on them. Try to get that kind of life out of an ST tire. My last trailer came with ST tires on it, I bought a nice set of Michelin LTX's off Craigslist for $50 to put on it...ST's went on the old trailer that got sold, 40k tires became spares.

dustycoal · Apr 15, 2014

Used ST tires for years on our rental units, never saw anything about a 65 mph limit. Never did Goodyear say anything about that at tire schooling I went to every few years. You need to make sure you run 50lb pressure to get a good life out of them.

oleozz · Apr 15, 2014

I hate to mention this due to people not believing but I have the original tires on my 20 year old trailer. I pulled them both off this weekend to repack the bearings and I don't think I will get 20 more years out of them but you know they didn't look bad!!

hd6gtom · Apr 15, 2014

David trailer tires do have a heaver sidewall. To get the maximum life from them you must run them at the maximum rated air pressure. Of all the hundreds of them I sold, I never heard of a 65 mph speed rating on them, you didn't tell us what brand you are looking at. Whatever brand you buy make sure you replace the valve stems too.

NNP · Apr 15, 2014

plus one on the valve stems.
my 06 and 07 trailers tires still look like new,( I keep the pressure
up)
but I've had to replace the stems twice on the smaller one.
Once I heard one leaking at the base and once caught it on a routine check.
dryrot and cracked all the way around.

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