Hello all
Just wondering what tires you have on your camplite?
I was looking at the set that came with my trailer which are st175/80r13 vail sport st which I found out load rating was 1360lbs and the gvwr 5000lbs of the trailer.
Looking for future tire replacement and not finding much but KENDA brand load d rating of 1610lbs.
Are there better tires out there anyone have tested or knows is better tread life/durability.
There are quite a few tire threads on the forum. Use the search feature and you'll get lots of info. I have that same tire on my 16TBS. When I'm ready for new tires (probably late 2016), I'm going to buy 185/80-13 Maxxis radials for my 16TBS. I see you put an r in the tire size from your trailer. That would imply radials and those Vail tires are bias ply, load range c. Note the 1360 lb rating is at the maximum inflation of 50 psi.
I have at least 12,000 miles on a set of Goodyear Marathons (175/80 13) and I still have lots of tread.
Much better life that the OEM's - that only lasted 3000 miles.
We have researched and looked around quite a bit on the topic of replacement tires for Travel trailers because of the problems we've read about in this forum with the tires that come with the CampLite trailers. While LivinLite has been putting better tires on their campers now for a few months (have upgraded to radials from bias ply), the Vail Sport tires are still a Chinese tire and we wanted to know what other options were out there. We found that there are no trailer tires made in the U.S. anymore and that there are quite a few cheap ones made in China that most of us would not want to consider. However, I agree with comment above about Maxxis tires, which seem to be be the best choice out there. I spoke with a representative from Maxxis and found that they are a U.S. company (based in GA) that does all of their own manufacturing, so even though their tires are made overseas they are made in Maxxis factories by Maxxis employees. They do not subcontract the manufacturing of their tires to someone else and they follow their own strict quality and manufacturing guidelines. We have read many good things online about their tires and they seem to have a good reputation. We plan on having Maxxis tires put on our new camper when it arrives at the dealer. We were advised by the person at Maxxis to contact one of their distributors to get the tires, instead of ordering them from them directly online (he said they really aren't set up to sell this way and you can get a much better price through a distributor). You can find the nearest distributor on the Maxxis website www.maxxis.com