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Recap:
We bought our Big Country in fall of 2015.
In fall of 2016, I found that one of our trailer tires was low on air. Determined the rim was cracked. Contacted Tredit, they sent a new rim of an "updated design". Had tire mounted on new rim, discarded old one.
Summer of 2017, we woke up to find another low tire on the trailer. Another cracked rim. We swapped to spare and drove about 400 miles on the spare with no other spare available until we were somewhere that Tredit could send another wheel. We asked for, and were granted a goodwill gesture of them just sending us three rims so all four would be the new design.
This past Sunday we were hitching up to head out on the second leg of a 10 day trip from Florida to Washington state and found that one of our tires was low. I swapped the spare on and threw the low tire in the bed of the truck. Next day I sprayed the rim and found it was cracked just like the other two (older style rims).
With nearly 2,500 miles of travel over the next several days, we weren't able to just stop somewhere for a week and wait for a wheel to arrive. I bought a second steel rim (like the spare has) and had the tire transferred to it so we'd have a spare in case we had any other issues. I'm going to wait and contact Tredit once we get out west (next Monday).
The decision now is what we're going to do moving forward. Our current inventory consists of four Goodyear G614 tires and one Sailun G637 tire (original spare), with two white steel wheels (one original spare wheel, one new steel wheel), three good aluminum wheels and one cracked aluminum wheel.
Here are the two options we're looking at:
1. Get a replacement from Tredit. Separately, order four steel silver powdercoated rims and have the four main tires mounted on those, leaving the spare on the white steel wheel. Sell the four aluminum rims and maybe one of the white steel wheels to make up some or most of the cost of the silver steelies.
2. Get a replacement from Tredit. Have the tire on the new steel rim transferred to the aluminum rim and re-mount it on the trailer. Buy an inexpensive tire (probably a Sailun) and have it mounted on the new steel wheel. Now we'll have two spares and four aluminum wheels on the trailer. If we have a problem down the road, at least we can mount a spare and still have a spare available.
Recap:
We bought our Big Country in fall of 2015.
In fall of 2016, I found that one of our trailer tires was low on air. Determined the rim was cracked. Contacted Tredit, they sent a new rim of an "updated design". Had tire mounted on new rim, discarded old one.
Summer of 2017, we woke up to find another low tire on the trailer. Another cracked rim. We swapped to spare and drove about 400 miles on the spare with no other spare available until we were somewhere that Tredit could send another wheel. We asked for, and were granted a goodwill gesture of them just sending us three rims so all four would be the new design.
This past Sunday we were hitching up to head out on the second leg of a 10 day trip from Florida to Washington state and found that one of our tires was low. I swapped the spare on and threw the low tire in the bed of the truck. Next day I sprayed the rim and found it was cracked just like the other two (older style rims).
With nearly 2,500 miles of travel over the next several days, we weren't able to just stop somewhere for a week and wait for a wheel to arrive. I bought a second steel rim (like the spare has) and had the tire transferred to it so we'd have a spare in case we had any other issues. I'm going to wait and contact Tredit once we get out west (next Monday).
The decision now is what we're going to do moving forward. Our current inventory consists of four Goodyear G614 tires and one Sailun G637 tire (original spare), with two white steel wheels (one original spare wheel, one new steel wheel), three good aluminum wheels and one cracked aluminum wheel.
Here are the two options we're looking at:
1. Get a replacement from Tredit. Separately, order four steel silver powdercoated rims and have the four main tires mounted on those, leaving the spare on the white steel wheel. Sell the four aluminum rims and maybe one of the white steel wheels to make up some or most of the cost of the silver steelies.
2. Get a replacement from Tredit. Have the tire on the new steel rim transferred to the aluminum rim and re-mount it on the trailer. Buy an inexpensive tire (probably a Sailun) and have it mounted on the new steel wheel. Now we'll have two spares and four aluminum wheels on the trailer. If we have a problem down the road, at least we can mount a spare and still have a spare available.
