Got a spare?

[Tharrell]

This happened yesterday while out on the interstate. I don't know how except maybe the tread started to come off and caught the fender.
I did notice a flat spot about the size of a quarter an inch inside the tread area a couple of days ago. Maybe it had something to do with my new brake controller?I don't think I ever locked up the brakes though.
What's the deal with trailer tires anyway? Can't reguler truck tires be used? Somebody in the know please edumacate me. Tony
By the way, my bulldog pipe mount worked perfectly.

[weeble67]

I have been running raised white letter BFG's (had to match my truck) on my trailer for a couple years. I have had no problems.

[Dirt Digger2]

oh man we've been there...only ours happened on a big dump trailer for our peterbilt. The tire on the lift axle blew at 80mph. The force of the explosion knocked the fender into the lift airbag and punctured it. All this with a full load of sand in the bed. The driver made it to my job where we had to go out and get a new airbag and install it onsite so he had brakes...haha

[gene gls]

This happened yesterday while out on the interstate. I don't know how except maybe the tread started to come off and caught the fender.
I did notice a flat spot about the size of a quarter an inch inside the tread area a couple of days ago. Maybe it had something to do with my new brake controller?I don't think I ever locked up the brakes though.
What's the deal with trailer tires anyway? Can't reguler truck tires be used? Somebody in the know please edumacate me. Tony
By the way, my bulldog pipe mount worked perfectly.

Looks like that tire was shot a long time ago. There is no tread on it. I use 6ply trailor tires, worth the money.

[Tharrell]

No tread? It was shaved off from the fender that's bent under.
This trailer is barely a year old and probably has 3000 miles on it at the very most.
Anyway, from what I can gather, I probably did it do myself. Underinflation heats trailer tires faster than normal tires and they self destruct from the inside like this one apparently did. Tony

[gene gls]

No tread? It was shaved off from the fender that's bent under.
This trailer is barely a year old and probably has 3000 miles on it at the very most.
Anyway, from what I can gather, I probably did it do myself. Underinflation heats trailer tires faster than normal tires and they self destruct from the inside like this one apparently did. Tony

Well then, you must of ran into something to bend the fender into the tire to cause the problem.

[topsites]

Odd thing, but likely what happened is the tire picked something up off the road, somehow it got up in there and snagged that fender right up.

[cpel2004]

Been there before and never again. I try to by the very best tires I think these are the ones carlisle ST235/85R16. Expensive but worth every penny.

[Guzman Properties]

Trailer tires are specific to the axel weight. If you have a 3500lb axel, you want a set of 1750lb tires. Regular truck tires (depending on their load range) will not go that high. Yeah BFG looks great, but are they the right tire for the job?

I really like the Bulldog pipe mount, I will DEFINATELY be adding that to my trailer.

Thanks for the post and pics.

[Tharrell]

Yeah, those pipe mounts on both sides of the trailer were a good idea but I think I'm actually going to buy 2 more bulldogs so I can lift my trailer off the ground when not in use. This tire failure thing has caused me to do a lot of thinking about my tires. Maybe I did pick something up but, the number one cause of failure is underinflation and I can't help thinking about just eye balling my tires now and then. I'm also going to unload my trailer when it's not in use, just the heavy stuff.
One other thing I found out about trailer tires, most do not wear out. Sure you may have a tandem and wear out tires but, more often there's a seperation type failure. Tony

PS. The right side tire takes a lot more abuse from running off the shoulder on tight roads and I can remember a road I avoid right now bouncing my trailer really good several times. That combined with underinflation and a few high speed, high heat highway cycles probably caused this failure.

[TLS]

You probably developed a ply separation.

How tight do those tires run from the fenders? In the pics, it's jacked up, right?

You can go with car tires, just make sure you have the weight covered. Most trailers like this (single axle) do come with car tires from the factory.

It doesn't look like you have enough heavy stuff to overload that trailer, so thats not an issue. I could see if you were towing a big tractor on there or something. But walkbehinds aren't that heavy.

I use Carlisle trailer tires on my tandem. I've heard good about Goodyear Marathons too.

Make sure those tires aren't too big for the fenders though. Rubbing is bad.

I hear ya about the pot holes on the right side of the road edges!

[Tharrell]

I tend to analyze things when they go wrong and it occurs to me I placed my hand on one of my tires last week for some unknown reason and noticed how warm it was. I remember thinking I had just hooked up my brake controller and wondered if it had anything to do with it.
The tires on it are General ST205/75R15.
I've been checking around town and there are a lot of trailer tires I've never heard of. Some in combination with rims.
I'm going to replace the other one as well because it's probably damaged on the inside and I don't need another beatup fender.
I wonder if the Goodyear Marathons are worth the extra money?

[Breezmister]

The tires on it are General ST205/75R15.
?

I've seen this happen before when you have a tire that repeatedly lose air and is refilled and is not fixed. General are a good tire IMHO cause I use them on my truck. Also, check your load range on the tires, you might be overloading the tires without realizing it. A couple of WB and a Z and you have near a ton on the trailer.:weightlifter:

[nt1]

Great idea with the side mounted jacks!

Looks like you would only need one more jack on the other side of the trailer.
Then you could place cinder blocks, or something else in the back. Then you would only need to raise and lower two jacks.