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Originally Posted by CWtheMan
Unlike many Keystone RV trailer owners your tires are providing more than 17% in load capacity reserves with a fully loaded trailer. With proper care and maintenance (especially inflation pressures) their drop dead date would be 3-5 years from date of manufacturer listed on their sidewalls.
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CW, could you explain how you arrived at the 3-5 years from DOM in the above statement? It's my understanding from the Trailer King website that their tires "age" at about 10% maximum weight reduction per year. With a 17% reserve, wouldn't the reserve capacity be "aged out" in about 1.5 years?
Wouldn't that mean, as an example, that tires 3 months old when installed on the line, and that sat on an RV for 8 or 9 months on a dealer's lot would be a year old when sold to the buyer. That would put his 17% reserve "in the tank" (as far as load reserve) sometime during his first year of ownership.