jerendeb-CLIF
Wingdale, NY 12594
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Doing a lot of research here; please post good experiences with Chinese Tires, especially Karrier LoadStar 285/80R/16 ST 90psi.
In other words, who has taken the risk with no problems.
JERE n DEB
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ed6713
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Buy American. Save an Americans job!!!!!
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amxpress
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I had good luck with chinese tires, I hang them up with a long rope on a tree as a swing for the kids. That's all they're good for.
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Cox89XJ
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Tireco sent me new tires every time one went bad. All I had to pay for was the mounting. After five of the Chinese tires failed I decided to put the Chinese tires on my 16 foot flat bed trailer that I use around the house and to haul my 89 XJ Jeep on.
They don't haul over 5,000 pounds and have held up good. If that's what you wanted to hear, but for a heavy camper you better go to a better tire. Quality trailer tires are made by Michelin, B F Goodrich, Uniroyal and I’ve also heard Bridgestone now makes a quality tire for trailers.
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skipnchar
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ed6713 wrote:Buy American. Save an Americans job!!!!!
There are NO American manufacturers of any major tire brand for ST rated tires. Makes too many sparks towing down the road with NO TIRES 
On a more serious note I refuse to use tires made by folks who are trying to kill our pets or our children. I use Maxxis which are made in Thailand.
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CKNSLS
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I tow a trailer which the tires are of a size which are made only by Chinese manufacturers. I towed with Carlisle Tires (Radial Trail) for three years without any problems. Towed legal speed always (55mph/California) and check pressure EVERYTIME. Passed by many trailers usually of a certain type coming back from Glamis only to find some pulled over to the side of the road with a flat or multiple blowouts. Currently running Transmasters made by Greenball for a year without any problems.
To the poster who feels good about buying tires made in Thailand...we won't even go in to the extensive illegal trade of minors for a certain activity in that country.
I guess you just have to pick which country does what you can live with as to where you buy your tires.......
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N3YMY
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Don't have the Load Star's; Have Duro and been running them at 10% over the 65 PSI at 71 PSI (TRA says you can run up to 10 PSI over cold inflation).
(camping buddy had his Load Star's recalled by Keystone RV, BTW)
We have scaled; we know we're not over the load limits of the tires.
However, they do run hot, say about 138-145F, then again they are bias ply, not radials.
When they get too old, we plan on using Goodyear Marathons.
Ran them on our old camper (travel trailer at that time), without issues. Typically run about 108-111F. Ran those at 10% over cold inflation also.
We were actually over the load limits for the 175/80R13's on the old camper near the end of ownership; upgrading to the 185/80R13's solved it (on that camper, tires were the limiting factor of the GAW, not so on our current 5ver).
Actually, of late, I'd be more concerned about the stems first...
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FisHin2Dmax
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JerenDeb,
Let's look at this from a common sensical perspective. WHY would you risk that nice sunnybrook, the possible safety of you, your family and others on the road by using Chinese tires with a demonstrated higher probability of failure? You can try to rationalize it all you want, but the failure rate data is very clear - Chinese made ST & LT tires have a much higher than average failure rate than tires made in elsewhere. For example, Goodyear Marathons were one of the best ST trailer tires for reliability, prior to being made in China. Now the Chinese Marathon is synonymous with "blow-out". So for a few hundred dollars, you can buy proven high quality LT ( Michelin) or ST ( Maxxis) tire and have piece of mind - or - you just pray and hope your china bomb tires don't blow. I don't know about you, but my family, my trailer and the safety of others on the road is priceless!!!
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ol Bombero-JC
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ed6713 wrote:Buy American. Save an Americans job!!!!!
Hmmmmmmmm -
so which "American" tires do you recommend? (ROTFL!!)
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pritch272
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We had good experience with the Milestars on our FW, until the manufacture recalled them- we had towed 1,706 miles on them.
We now have 4,069 miles on the replacements, Michelin XPS Ribs....
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