as I wanted to upgrade my trailer wheels to something reasonable I was looking for tire and rim combinations and stumbled across a site with surprisingly good prices. I ordered a spare tire first (radial on white rim) as the cover will hide the beauty of any rim so only price matters. Price including shipping $95. Now they posted the new alloy rims they got: price of rim and radial tire including shipping $140. At other places you can barely get a bias ply with white rim for that price (and pay a lot of shipping too). I'm upgrading from 185/75D13 to 205/75R14. Unfortunately 15" tires wouldn't fit my fenders and changing to larger fenders would have been "major construction". The old Escort trailer has bullet proof steel steps and fenders and not the new Tupperware fenders. Still better than the 13" stroller wheels operated at their maximum load capacity.....
No relationship with this company! Just wanted to pass it along in these times where prices matter a lot more:
Looks like they sell left overs from belly-up boat manufacturers and others (18 left after my purchase).
As a side note: I contacted Kenda tires and asked about tire pressure: the response was as I expected it. As I don't need the full load capacity they recommend to run these 50PSI tires at 40-43PSI only which also extends their lifetime. At 35PSI they have 1430lbs capacity instead of 1760 at 50PSI. Just take these 2 points and do a linear interpolation in between for your requirements in case you upgrade to get a better ride.
No relationship with this company! Just wanted to pass it along in these times where prices matter a lot more:
Looks like they sell left overs from belly-up boat manufacturers and others (18 left after my purchase).
As a side note: I contacted Kenda tires and asked about tire pressure: the response was as I expected it. As I don't need the full load capacity they recommend to run these 50PSI tires at 40-43PSI only which also extends their lifetime. At 35PSI they have 1430lbs capacity instead of 1760 at 50PSI. Just take these 2 points and do a linear interpolation in between for your requirements in case you upgrade to get a better ride.
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