As a lot of you already know, we had 3 blowouts in the last 150 miles of our trip home from OSCAR 3. I have a 24 foot gooseneck with dual 6,000 pound axles. The tires are 1.5 year old Tow Master ST235/80R16, properly inflated, no visual wear, less than 2,000 miles on them, and not overloaded. We have towed with the same load to Harlan, Uwharrie, and Gulches multiple times.
We lost the left rear just north of Canton, NC. Replaced it with my spare, an LT235/85R16, and kept rolling. Near Woodruff, SC, we lost the right front. We found a tire shop that had two well used LT235/85R16 and could mount them for us, so we bought both (and two more wheels off a truck they had behind the ahop so that I can carry extra spares next time) put one of used tires on and were rolling again. Between Newberry and Chapin we lost the right rear. Put the second used tire on and took back roads to Brooks' house. We unloaded Brooks' Jeepmoved the Sami back, and I headed home. The trailer was bouncing and jerking on my way home, but I haven't checked yet if the last tire was coming apart or maybe one of the spares is bad...
My brother had 3 of his 4 Tow Masters (1 year old, from the same distributor, but a different size) come apart also, but not on this trip. His have much less mileage on them than mine do.
So, I started this thread to get some opinions. What's the advantage of ST tires over LT? What brands of trailer tires have you had good or bad luck with? I'm going to give the distributor a chance, but I will definitely not go back with the same tire.
We lost the left rear just north of Canton, NC. Replaced it with my spare, an LT235/85R16, and kept rolling. Near Woodruff, SC, we lost the right front. We found a tire shop that had two well used LT235/85R16 and could mount them for us, so we bought both (and two more wheels off a truck they had behind the ahop so that I can carry extra spares next time) put one of used tires on and were rolling again. Between Newberry and Chapin we lost the right rear. Put the second used tire on and took back roads to Brooks' house. We unloaded Brooks' Jeepmoved the Sami back, and I headed home. The trailer was bouncing and jerking on my way home, but I haven't checked yet if the last tire was coming apart or maybe one of the spares is bad...
My brother had 3 of his 4 Tow Masters (1 year old, from the same distributor, but a different size) come apart also, but not on this trip. His have much less mileage on them than mine do.
So, I started this thread to get some opinions. What's the advantage of ST tires over LT? What brands of trailer tires have you had good or bad luck with? I'm going to give the distributor a chance, but I will definitely not go back with the same tire.