I am going to put some new tires on the boat trailer. They are GoodYear Marathons. I am finding that the tires are made in 3 locations. The good old US, Canada, and China. Is there any advantage or disadvantage to the location of where the tires were made in reguards to the quality?
Thanks in advance for any or all suggestions or thoughts
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I was reading that some had issues with chinese made marathons, if you can avoid them do so. Just make sure your load range is sufficient, I have D's and will always use D's. When that trailer starts "bouncing" it puts alot of extra stress on the sidewalls.
Unless you have 13"-14" then you can only get the C's. I think you can get the Load range C or D in the 15", opt for the D.
Good choice on tires. First thing I did on my last boat was swapped out the brand new carliles for D' marathons. The dealer thought I was nuts...
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Quote: Good choice on tires. First thing I did on my last boat was swapped out the brand new carliles for D' marathons. The dealer thought I was nuts...
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Not nutz in my book. My experience with carlisle tires is that they are not fit to leave the dealership. Such junk. They're not that much less expensive than a good tire so it baffles me why so many trailer companies install them as OEM.
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I don't know how Carlyle stays in business. There was an issue at one time w/ their commercial EPDM membrane roofs shinking and actually pulling in the parapet walls where they were fastened.
I had Marathons (2 sets) on my old boat, and I have Firestone Indy500's on the new boat. the Firestones are far superior in both durability and hydroplaning resistence, and seem to be track truer (though that could be a function of the trailer as much as the tires.
had carlisles on the old trailer they were junk! lost 2 of them at 45 miles an hour.. just exploded and came apart. Marathons D's came on the new trailer. I will let you all know how they run but so far so good...
Quote: had carlisles on the old trailer they were junk! lost 2 of them at 45 miles an hour.. just exploded and came apart.
Yup, the tread just "unwraps" from the core of the tire and flies apart. If you're lucky your fenders and side of the boat don't take a beating from the flying debris.
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I would highly rec getting them balenced, made a differnce on mine.
The first set of Carlylse that came on my trailer where 1/4" out of round they replaced them under warrenty and these where better and I had them balenced
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Quote: Yup, the tread just "unwraps" from the core of the tire and flies apart. If you're lucky your fenders and side of the boat don't take a beating from the flying debris.
Don't get me going on this!!! My nice beautiful Eagle trailer with the messed up fender. 65 MPH on 169 will make a mess.
I had one tires partially "unwrap" leaving a 1' section of tire tread in place while the rest of the tread whipped around at 60 MPH. Eventually this tread-battering ram lodged itself between the frame of the trailer and my fender. The end result was a completely destroyed fender... the tire didn't stop spinning and once the tread got stuck between the fender and frame the loose tread just pulled the fender off from the mount brackets and turned it into a lump of crinkled metal.
Thankfully the boat only received a feww small scuffs.
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Tire question
Marathons D's came on the new trailer. I will let you all know how they run but so far so good...
