New owner!

[jackhartjr]

Hi folks, just picked up a Mallard M210RB.
The First thing I did was stop at my tire shop and had them install 5 Maxxis tires. In fact, it was part of the deal, I told them that I wasn't putting that kind of money into a new camper, just to be running China bomb tires!
Too many bad experiences with the crap tires!
We are downsizing from a 34 foot, three slide 9,000 lb Flagstaff to this, 22 feet, and roughly 4,500 lbs!
If any other M210RB owners want to share tips, we are all ears!

 

[david-steph2018]

Congrats on the new rig.

 

[sengli]

Good call on the tires, it may have saved you tons of grief.

 

[Scott308]

Are the original tires that bad?? I recently bought the same trailer.

 

[Dahillbilly]

ran my originals for three years, by then the date codes had them being five years old & they were showing signs of dry rot, so I replaced them with 14 ply Hercules. Might add the was a 40' 5th wheel @ 16k.

 

[jackhartjr]

Are the original tires that bad?? I recently bought the same trailer.

They are probably the cheap tires almost all manufacturer puts on!

 

[BigHorns]

We learned this lesson the very hard, expensive way. Bought our 2019 42 ft Bighorn new. Minding the tires was a habit from the beginning. Visually, they were very good. Then one morning one of them blew beneath a 13 ft kitchen slide. Tore out an extensive wiring harness, ripped off the wheel well shroud, and threw a mess across the highway. Lost power to the residential fridge, microwave, et al.

Took a good while underneath to figure out the wiring at both ends of what was ripped out and replace the full harness. Eventually, we were whole again. But, 5 months later another one of them blew on the opposite side. Air pressure was perfect and, again, visually there was nothing wrong with the tires.

This time I yanked all 5 of the factory Westlake tires and replaced them with a Hercules set. That was 15 months ago. No issues since. The date on those Westlakes was 2017- just two years old when they blew.

These factory tires were junk, IMHO.