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PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT #43638025 Undeliverables to: 268 - 44 Crawford Crescent, Campbellville, Ontario L0P 1B0 MONTREAL, QUEBEC © 2022 CAMPING CANADA MAGAZINE PRINTED IN CANADA RV51-3 CONTENTS.indd 4RV51-3 CONTENTS.indd 42022-06-29 10:37 AM2022-06-29 10:37 AMRV-black_series NEW.indd 1RV-black_series NEW.indd 12022-04-06 11:02 AM2022-04-06 11:02 AMHITCH HINTS by Andy Thomson W 6 Ioften speak about tow vehi- cle tires in this column but today I thought I would dis- cuss tires for your trailer or fifth wheel. While I would not often rec- ommend throwing away new tires, when it does come time for replace- ment there are often much better tires than the origi-nal equipment models. The exception to this would be if your trailer has bias ply tires. It seems ridicu-lous that many trailers today come equipped with bias ply tires. Radial tires have been used on the majority of cars in North America since 1973, and they are far superior to bias ply tires in terms of ride, handling, trac- tion, and durability, plus - they have less rolling resistance. The bias ply tires that some trailers are equipped with are not very good quality and they should not be used for any amount of travel. If your trailer just goes a few miles to a station- ary site each year these bias-ply tires are fine but if you plan to do any more than a few hundred miles of travel each season you should toss them and put on something safer and more durable. I know this might seem like you are throwing away good tires, but these are $20.00 tires so you are not throwing away much. How di you know what kind of tires you have on your trail- er? All radial tires have a letter “R” in their size – for example 225 75R x 15”. One line of trailers that we sell comes from the factory with bias ply tires, so we change all of them to radials before we deliver the trail- ers. Somehow, during the busy peri- od last spring, one of these trailers snuck through without having the tires changed. The customer took a trip from London to Banff and back and report- ed that their trailer had somehow come to them with old tires. They were not old at all – they were brand new bias plies that just looked old and worn out after one trip. After apologizing pro- fuse-ly, we installed the new radials. Even within the radial tire catego- ry, there are tires that are a compro- mise of features and cost. Some of the radial “ST” (Travel Trailer) tires that are installed by RV manufacturers are sup-plied by “the lowest bidder”. For many RV owners who do not tow sub- stantial miles, these radial “ST” tires represent a reasonably good value and they will suc-cumb to many years of exposure to sun-light before they wear Andy Thomson has been writing for RV Lifestyle Magazine for more than 25 years. He also owns and operates Can-Am RV Centre located in London, ON. continued on page 8 RV Lifestyle | Volume 51 Number 3 www.rvlifemag.com 205/70R x 14" tires on a lite trailer. This cross-section of a Yokohama tire shows the technology as well as the terminology of modern tire construction. Note the tread belts outside of the sidewall plies. BETTER TIRES FOR YOUR TRAILER PROPER TIRE SIZE AND TYPE MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE! Hitch Hints 51-3.indd 6Hitch Hints 51-3.indd 62022-06-29 10:52 AM2022-06-29 10:52 AMSimply Better Truma Aventa Perfectly Balanced Comfort German Engineered for the perfect balance of cooling and humidity, creating ultimate comfort while minimizing noise in a modern, energy-efficient low-profile design. EfficientInnovativeRefinedIntelligentReliable www.truma.net All-new for 2022 Truma.indd 1Truma.indd 12022-04-29 11:57 AM2022-04-29 11:57 AMHITCH HINTS by Andy Thomson W 8 continued from page 6 out. However if it is time to replace your original ST tires, or if you do a lot of traveling and you are having tire reli- ability issues, then an alter-native is a good idea. The alternative is going to be either an “LT” (Light Truck) tire or in some cases a “P” (Passenger) tire. Usually a much better quality light truck or passenger tire is available for about the same price as an ST tire. The first step to upgrading your tires is to know the weight your trailer tires carry when you are loaded for travel and con-nected to your tow vehicle. The only way to do this accurately is to weigh your combination. Do not weigh your trailer alone as the axle loading changes when you hook up either with a weight distrib-ution hitch or when you connect a fifth wheel. In previous col- umns I have writ-ten about this in more detail but what you need is a scale that is sectioned off to weigh your different axles or group of axles individually. Once you know the weight on your trailer axle(s) you can divide by the num-ber of tires and get the individual tire loading. For example, if you have an axle weight on your tandem axle trailer of 7200 pounds then you have an indi- to much harsher road conditions which gives it more margin at lower speeds. Another interesting spec is that the LT tire weighs almost the same as the much higher rated ST tire. This is inter- esting because it implies that it can carry all that extra weight without any more material in the tire. I am pretty sure that if you put one of each of these tires on an axle and keep loading it until it fails, the LT tire would out perform the ST. Please note that I am not suggesting that you over-load any tire – even though it could likely handle more than 1985 pounds that should be the limit of the load carried by that tire. Besides being far less likely to fail, the LT tires have another big advan-tage; far more trac- tion in a panic stop, especially if it is wet. In fact, a trailer’s 12 x 2” electric brakes have a very hard time locking up the LT tire even in wet road conditions. What if your trailer has 15” ST tires and the weight of the trailer puts the tire load close to the 2540 pound rating? For example, let’s say that your tandem axles are carrying 9800 pounds or 2450 pounds per tire. If your trailer is in this weight class you are likely having a fair bit of tire trouble with ST tires, but there is not a 15” LT or Passenger tire rated to carry anywhere near 2500 pounds. The option then is to change to 16” rims and 225/75R x 16” LT load range “E” LT tires rated for 2680 pounds. This will mean purchasing new rims, however if you do a lot of traveling the LT tires will likely last you twice as long. You can keep the 15” spare tire as it will be close enough to suffice as a spare on the slim chance that you ever have trouble with the LT tires. The 16” tire is 1” larg- er in diameter or 1/2” larger in radius, which means that you will need 1/2” more clear-ance in your wheel wells to install them –this is usually not an issue. You may be thinking that I have made the case for installing LT tires on your trailer, but why would you ever install “P” Passenger car tires on a trail- er? Well, for much the same reasons as we install the LT tires – durability, trac- tion and reliability. Passenger car tires are not tested quite as stringently as an LT tire. For example, a P235/75R x 15” tire is rated to carry 2183 pounds – vidual tire loading of 1800 pounds. On a trailer such as this you would like- ly have ST225/75R x 15” load range “D” tires rated to carry 2540 pounds at 65 PSI. A good replacement for this is a 235/75R x 15” LT load range “C” tire rated for 1985 Pounds at 50 PSI. Some of you likely are thinking that I must be nuts to remove a D range 2540 pound tire for a considerably lower rated C range tire. As is often the case, ratings can be what you want them to be. When a trailer tire blows it is very rarely a safety issue if there is no loss of control – in fact, you likely won’t even feel it happen on a tandem axle, and even on a single axle there is not a lot of sensa-tion in the tow vehicle. This means that a trailer tire does not have to be tested to the extremes of a light truck or passenger tire, where the results of a blow out can be consider- ably more serious. So the “ST” travel trailer tires are speed rated some-where between 65 & 75 MPH but an LT or Passenger tire will usually be speed rated to at least 100 MPH. Not that you will tow at 100 MPH - but a tire that can carry it’s load at 100 MPH has to be able to dissipate heat better and stand up Tri axle Airstream: One of our first applications of passenger tires was back in 1994, on this 34' Airstream. We installed P235/60 x 16" per-formance tires in place of the stan- dard ST225/75 x 15". Though they looked good, I was initially concerned about tread life. I took this trailer on a trip west, and the tires rode much smoother and the traction was fantastic. After the trip there was no perceptible tread wear and the tires stayed on the trailer for another 6 years. 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