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I agree with the but covering exercise. I have the EZ lube feature on my 19 year old boat trailer and never had grease leak past the seal. I would pump new grease in them every year and inspect them every 10 years and replace the seals. I never had to rotate the tire as I pumped grease in them...

Many of the new seals come with a preapplied sealant on the OD of the seal. This probably varies by Brand of seal. I don't think it is required on seals with a coating but it probably cant hurt either. In 30 years of repacking bearings, I have never used a sealant on the od, with or without a...

I have had TPMS on my trailer since new. I have a TPMS on my spare tire to make sure it is ready if I need it. I carry an air compressor and two spares (part of the 1800 lbs of stuff). I would agree most car owners do not keep an eye on their tire pressure. I do believe that RV owners are...

I know how much my stuff weighs. The trailer has 11,200 lbs on the axles, the pin weight is 3,500 lbs for a total of 14,700 lbs. The empty weight is 12,900 lbs, so I have 1,800 lbs of stuff. No wonder I am tired every time I load the thing. My wife has no mercy. I think your comment may explain...

What size tire was on your outback? My nephew had a small toy hauler and it came with D15 tires. These are bias ply tires and do not have tread separation issues like radial tires. I had D15 tires on my boat trailer and they were 18 years old when I replaced them ( made in China). I just didn't...

According to Dexter axle, yes. They need to be cleaned, inspected, and repacked every year. Why bother with the easy lube? This is straight from the Dexter warranty people when they replaced my brake assemblies. With five pumps per axle, you never got any grease to the outer bearing. The whole...

I have owned two trucks that I installed Load Lifter 5000 air bags on. Very happy with them with one exception. One bag in each set developed a leak in the schrader valve and caused one bag to go flat. The valves come preassembled and I didn't check them after installation. On the first truck...

I did use the EZ lube method on my 2014 Big Country 3650RL. You forgot to mention that you are supposed to rotate the wheel while you slowly pump grease into the axle. I did it per Dexter's recommendation and 400 miles later, I had no brakes. Three of the seals leaked grease into the brakes...

Well, five of them were OEM tires on brand new trailers and we know trailer manufacturers buy quality tires ( Don't they use Sailuns now?). One trailer was a Forest River bumper pull ( cant remember the tire brand but were made in China) and the other is a 2014 Heartland Big Country 3650RL with...

Discount tire in Knoxville, TN put 4 Goodyear G614's on my trailer for $1,284 out the door, mounted, balanced, and 9% sales tax. Simpletire will ship them to you for $1,224. I will never buy a foreign made trailer tire again. I have failed 8 tires from 4 different manufacturers in the last 8...

You make a good point about scrubbing the tires during a low speed maneuver. My driveway is a tight turn to back in. To make matters worse, my driveway has a brushed concrete finish to make it non slip. You wouldn't believe the rubber it leaves on my driveway every time I back in and pull out...

The ST specification is not the problem. The problem is quality control and lack of verification by an outside agency that the tires will actually carry the specified load for the life of the tread at the rated speed. The US DOT does seem to track tire failures on passenger car tires and truck...

"Am I recalling correctly that you previously posted you had Gladiator QR-25 tires? Those are not load range G and lack the steel belts of the QR-35 tires. If so, the QR-25 shouldn't be compared with either Sailun S637 or Goodyear G614." The Sailun S637 tires are a load range G, 14 ply rating...

What I am saying is that three years from now if they start failing and causing damage to our RV's, don't expect to get any money out of Dynamic Tire. You can buy the Goodyear G614's for less than $300 per tire. I paid $1,280 for four of them out the door with balance and taxes from Discount...

They are not a seller of the tire. They import them directly from the manufacturer and sell them through retail outlets. The retail outlets like easy tire and simple tire handle the warranty for them. I suspect they have the North American distribution rights for all Sailun tires. The accounts...

I have been trying to get Dynamic Tire Corporation to pay a claim on a Towmax tire that damaged my trailer. TBC Corporation said Dynamic Tire would contact me about returning the tire for evaluation. Two weeks later, it hasn't happened so I called the number I received from TBC. You get a menu...

I looked at my new G614's. They do not say Trailer Service Only. Mine are dated the 9th week of 2017 so they are pretty fresh. They are LT235\85R16. I would have been surprised if they said trailer service only because they are labeled LT tires. I have seen them advertised as ST235 and LT. Do...

I hope you didn't use the easy lube feature. I did two years ago and three of the seals leaked grease into the drum. I didn't find out until I was 400 miles from home when I noticed the brakes working poorly. I felt the drums after a hard stop and one was cold, two were warm, and one was working...

I think the last paragraph explains why many people, myself included, have had success with LT tires. The LT245's are rated 500 lbs lower than the ST tires but they perform better. Having said that, I weighed my trailer to make sure I was below the rated load for the LT's. MY LT265's on the rear...

It is difficult to go up in size on some fifth wheels with shocks. I put LT245/75R16's on my 40 ft fifth wheel. This is 10 mm wider (.2 inch per side) than the stock 235's. I only had about 3/8 inch clearance to the shocks with the 245's. I wanted to go to 265's for the added safety factor but...

Has anyone had any luck getting money out of Dynamics of Ontario, Canada for body damage caused by Towmax tires? I contacted API about my latest tire failure and Olga asked if there was any body damage. I said yes and she said she would forward the report to Dynamic Tire Corporation of Canada. I...

Lets talk about actual forces created by the truck brakes and the trailer brakes on the link in the above test. Looking at the Dodge only and assuming the truck weighs 7,000 lbs, a total weight of 23,000 lbs. The Ram stopped in 7.0 seconds with truck brakes only. This is a stopping force of...

I kept a tire and wheel from an eight year old trailer as a second spare for my new trailer. Left it in my garage on the floor. Walked into the garage one morning and there was rubber all over the place. The 12 year old Goodyear Marathon ( made in USA) had exploded sitting on the garage floor...

I had the Dometic heat pump model on my 2014 Big Country 3650RL. It failed in Sept, 2016 when on a trip to Oaklahoma City. The warranty was two years and the trailer was a little less than 3 years old. Dometic said that it was out of warranty but they would pay their cost on the non heat pump...

My Dometic did the same thing. I went on the roof and took off the cover. Turned out the noise was caused by the rubber grommet around the high pressure line had deteriorated and fallen out. I put several ty wraps around it and the noise stopped. If is still cools, it probably does not need to...

Re: Heartland north exposure 22. 2013. New off lot If you wait, this is what your trailer will look like. I didn't replace my spare which was a Towmax. Big mistake. Made less than 2400 miles.

Hope they weren't the Goodyear Marathons. They do not have a good reputation, foreign made. If they were the Endurance, I think they are US made. If so, repost in a couple of years to let people know how they are doing. I think it is a new product for Goodyear and I can't find any reviews or...

Great info. Even I was confused. I looked at my tire and it shows 14 ply rating with a load of 4080. Even the QR35 has two 14 ply rating tires with different load capacities. 3750 and 4080? Makes life tough as a consumer to market the same tire name, load rating, and ply rating with two...

Did you use the larger E range tire? Any problems? You sure one wasn't a 235/85 tire instead of a /75 or /80 tire? This would make them about 1 inch taller. Tire size should be the same on D and E range tires. Why do you think different diameters will make them fail early? I agree it affects the...

Were they the QR-25 or QR-35. Apparently Gladiator makes two Load Range G tires, the -35 is a steel carcass like the G614''s. Maybe a better tire than the -25. I would argue that any load range G tire shouldn't fail with 2,810 pounds on it. I thought switching to a G rated tire would cure my...

I had four skins on the same brand. Didn't work out too well. Two failures in 8,000 miles. Although the 235/85 's are 1.25 inch bigger in diameter than the LT245's, the tires show very even wear. No sign of wear on the inside of the bigger tire. I wish my dodge 2500 was that good. What brand...

Just thought I would give people a heads up on the Gladiator ST235/85R16 QR25-TS tires that I put on my 2014 Big Country 3650RL after two of the OEM Towmax tires failed. These are 95 PSI load range G tires, rated at 3,960 lbs with 95 psi "at freeway speeds" according to their web site. No speed...