Ever get that gut feeling you need to look at somthing?

Ever since I got this HTT a month ago. I for some reason didn't trust the tires. I looked at them and I didn't see any cracks, the treads were at 8-9/32 so I thought well they are 6 years old perhaps that is it. I will replace them in the spring. We went on three trips (about 600 miles in total) before the end of our season.

Now I'm putting the camper in it's winter spot and getting ready for hibernation. I went around and filled the tires to 50psi. I pulled the cover off the spare to check tire pressure and inspect its condition. What did I find? A bubble in the sidewall. That got me thinking I should inspect all of the MUCH closer.

So I took a MUCH closer look at all 4 of tires on the HTT and wouldn't you know it I found another bubble forming. It was small and I must not have seen it when I first bought it. That was a nasty blowout just waiting to happen.



I guess I will be putting on 4 new ones in the spring.

 

The stamp says 2414 (only mark I could find) and I am guessing that is 2014 which would make sense since that was the actual year of manufacture for the camper. Westlake has a Standard prorated warrantee of 6 years from manufacture or 5 years form date of sale if later than that.

 

Yeah,
I am going to look around. No time crunch for sure. I may step up to a D rating from a C while Im at it.
I did the math on if I had a flat and the unloaded weight would not exceed the weight rating for C tires (assuming the remaining 3 are ok) but Fully loaded It would exceed that rating.

I also have the challenge to find somewhere that will balance and mount them. called the local RV dealer and they don't do it. Go figure they sell trailer tire not do they mount the blasted things )

 

They are radial st205/75R14/C. 50psi is the correct pressure.

 

Thanks,
For this 2015 flagstaff shamrock 233s (HTT) with two axles, I calculated it: The empty weight is 4497lbs with a tongue weight of 458lbs so I calculated 1000lbs per tire.

loaded to the max I have a GVWR of 6600 and guessing 600 tongue weight. So 1500lbs per tire.

if I blew out a tire I was thinking the load would be distributed to the remaining three for the most part so empty 1300lbs on each remaining tire (still within the rating) and loaded 2000lbs. (over the rating of 1760* I believe is the spec). I honestly never expect to hit 2000lbs of cargo but who knows.

I suspect this plays out the similarly with low tire pressure in one tire
If I got it wrong I can save a few bucks

 

Good to know. The shops I called around here wont touch camper\trailer tires for some reason. I either have to buy them with rims and mounted or hope I can find a shop to mount them at least. I also called a few RV dealers and they said they don't do tires and recommended a local tire shop but they don't answer their phone or email.

Just looking online The difference in cost is $87 per tire plus mounting if (I can find someone to do it) for just tires or $187 with rims mounted , nitrogen filled and shipped (etrailer.com).
Just seems strange to me.