New Sundance owner with concerns about the tires as well.
My first post, but not exactly new here. I have been prowling the forum for a couple of months now and I just brought home a new Sundance Ultralite 285BH Thursday. I looked at some of the "bigger standard" Sundance models, like the 2997 BHS and 2998 BH, but my wife and I decided on the the Ultralite for a couple of reasons, mostly size, as we like to camp in smaller out of the way campgrounds and not your off the highway KOA etc. I also have a 16 boat I intend to pull behind the 5er as well as a couple of 4 wheelers from time to time, so the logical choice was to go for the lighter and slightly shorter unit......
Now with that said, I have not seen any posts or comments on the new Ultralite units yet and I will say from the get go, that these units from our inspection and comparison with the regular line is that they lack some of the more "high end" features and options of the regular line. I won't go into details here, but if someone has questions, let me know. Finally to the point and that is the tires are obviously Chinese made and I have really been wondering about replacing them NOW rather than later. I figured I could make a few trips with them as they should be good for a while, but after reading the post by jmgratz, I am having second thoughts!! Especially if I am going to be pulling my boat behind the 5er. Last thing I need is a blow out with my boat behind the 5er that could possibly send the whole train off the road if you know what I mean.
So when any of you have replaced your tires, has the tire dealer/store given you any trade in on your Chinese tires and what approximately are you looking at cost wise for a set of 15" tires on one of these units? As a side note, I bought a set of tires for my truck a couple of weeks ago and I have to say my local Big O dealer gave an unbelievable deal. I have a 2005 F350 and for those of you that dont know, these 350s have 18" wheels and it has been hard to find tires for these trucks. I was quoted $1300-1500 for a set of tires from Les Schwab. When I went to Big O, I got a set of Big O AT tires with a pretty aggressive tread for $900. The truck had the original cheap General tires on it and the tires had about 18.5K on them and believe it or not, the dealer gave me $50/tire trade in. I walked away with a new set of tires for $705!!! Unfortunately, I doubt I am going to get much trade in for new Chinese trailer tires, but I am hoping!!
Thanks for any advise in advance
Shane