Trailer tire mileage

Scramjet

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I am looking at replacing my trailer tires for the third time for excessive wear. I’m thinking I may need an alignment or a new axle but I am not sure. I typically get about 50,000 miles plus out of my Jeep and truck tires (I know it’s not the same but it’s my only reference point). I am seeing excessive wear at about 27,000 mile on these Goodyear Endurance tires. That is about the same as I got on the original Westlake tires.

My question is; how many miles are people getting out of their trailer tires.

I realize that there is no odometer so it is usually a best estimate and it is tire and weight dependent. My 303RLS is 12,000# loaded.

Brian
 
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I am looking at replacing my trailer tires for the third time for excessive wear. I’m thinking I may need an alignment or a new axle but I am not sure. I typically get about 50,000 miles plus out of my Jeep and truck tires (I know it’s not the same but it’s my only reference point). I am seeing excessive wear at about 27,000 mile on these Goodyear Endurance tires. That is about the same as I got on the original Westlake tires.

My question is; how many miles are people getting out of their trailer tires.

I realize that there is no odometer so it is usually a best estimate and it is tire and weight dependent. My 303RLS is 12,000# loaded.

Brian

One of the features of the Goodyear endurance tires is a shallow tread for cooler runing. This was touted by Goodyear when the Endurance was introduced. The cynic
in me will point out that it is also cheaper to produce....You can draw your on conclusion.

This works for a lot of people as most RVers tires age out long before the tread is gone,
 
The nature of tandem axles tends to cause a lot of scrubbing of the tires. Any time you're pulling the RV and you go through a turn some of the wheels will be moving sideways a bit causing the outsides of the tread to wear more.

This and the shallow tread [MENTION=12888]huntindog[/MENTION] mentioned is likely the cause of what appears to be excessive tire wear.
 
One of the features of the Goodyear endurance tires is a shallow tread for cooler runing. This was touted by Goodyear when the Endurance was introduced. The cynic
in me will point out that it is also cheaper to produce....You can draw your on conclusion.

This works for a lot of people as most RVers tires age out long before the tread is gone,

Yep - I replaced my Westlakes with Carlisle's after 5 years. My mileage was less than 10000 and the tread was good yet. While the trailer was 5 years old, the tires were closer to 6 years.
 
One of the features of the Goodyear endurance tires is a shallow tread for cooler runing. This was touted by Goodyear when the Endurance was introduced. The cynic
in me will point out that it is also cheaper to produce....You can draw your on conclusion.

This works for a lot of people as most RVers tires age out long before the tread is gone,

Depends on the tread compound. GY could be using a harder compound which will give more mileage.
 
My experience with Goodyear is that they use mostly a softer compound. That has been more on cars than trucks or trailers
 
I probably get about 25k on each set. But I'm changing them from age not tread depth. Somewhere around 5-6 years I buy another set. I've heard some people say they swap them out every three years but I personally think they are tossing money away. To each their own. I have never worn a set down to the wear bars...always age.
 
I agree, IMO every three years is just wasting resources, most of the time. Maybe I'd make an exception in the case of "E" rated Westlake tires. :)
 
Depends on the tread compound. GY could be using a harder compound which will give more mileage.

While this could be true.... I doubt it. The OP was complaining about the milage they wore out at being lower than on his TV. This is not the first complaint on this that I have seen.
The complaints are pretty few though, as most RVers just do not put many miles on their tires
 
You are getting pretty standard mileage out of the tires. They simply aren’t designed to be high mileage like your car because very few actually see high mileage. I’ve never even seen an ad for ‘long wearing’ RV tires, although that’s not to say someone doesn’t make longer lasting tires.
 
I am just now on my way home from Hreen Vapley, AZ to Omaha. While in Green Valley, I had Happy Camper repack my wheel bearings. When they pulled the rear tires on my 2021 303RLS, they found the tires were severely worn with only 12,000 miles. They checked the axle and found it was defective/bent before it was even installed on my rig. They called Dexter and informed them of the situation. Dexter sent a new axle complete with drums. May want to have your axles checked to make sure they are true before subjecting a new set to wear. Dexter sent a new axle, but I had to pay labor even though the axle was still under warranty.
 
I am just now on my way home from Hreen Vapley, AZ to Omaha. While in Green Valley, I had Happy Camper repack my wheel bearings. When they pulled the rear tires on my 2021 303RLS, they found the tires were severely worn with only 12,000 miles. They checked the axle and found it was defective/bent before it was even installed on my rig. They called Dexter and informed them of the situation. Dexter sent a new axle complete with drums. May want to have your axles checked to make sure they are true before subjecting a new set to wear. Dexter sent a new axle, but I had to pay labor even though the axle was still under warranty.

Thanks for the mileage estimate. Only a few responses gave mileage estimates for their trailer tires. I still don’t know if about 25,000 miles is good or not. I suspect it is not great but not bad either. As I said in the original post, both the original Westlakes and the GY tires were worn out at 25,000 miles.

Brian
 
I still don’t know if about 25,000 miles is good or not. I suspect it is not great but not bad either. As I said in the original post, both the original Westlakes and the GY tires were worn out at 25,000 miles.

Brian
I agree with you. Not great..not bad. My estimate of 25k is a pretty rough guess. Based on a guess of about 5k a year. But...Being recently retired..I put about 13-14k on last year and probably have 20-25k on my tires right now. And they look far from worn out. Good tread all across. But they are 5 years old. I'm guessing it would take 40-50k to actually wear them down to the wear bars. But they probably be replaced this year. Or at the beginning of next year.
 
FWIW, I had about 40,000 miles on a set of Sailun tires on our last toyhauler. Granted it was a triple axle, but the tires looked like there was a lot of life left, easily another 10,000-20,000 miles. But they were also nearly 6 years old when I sold the trailer. I would be unhappy with only 25,000 miles on a set of trailer tires.
 

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