Weird tire wear.

[travelin texans]

Originally Posted by Wilco

Did you check to see if the brakes were dragging on the wear side?
Most rv manufacturers put tires on that barely meet the weight rating of the trailer. I would consider going one size wider on the replacement tires.

I'd recommend 1 size up in load rating, from D to E as example, not necessarily width.

[Tireman9]

Originally Posted by Tireman9

Out of Alignment.


Could be bent axle or a bend where spindle attaches to axle, but that's still an alignment issue.

I see a number of posts with suggestions to change the tires. You can do that BUT unless you want the "new" tire to end up in the same condition you need to confirm the alignment FIRST.

[Campermike]

With my old pop up I had wear like that in the right side when I used cheap tires and they were shot on just the one side in under 3k miles. When I switched to better tires they wore fine and were still on the trailer with 10k miles on them. I am sure that trailer had as bit of alignment issue but better tires made it less of an issue.

[razor 68]

I own a tire shop. The top picture is fillet/choppy tread and the lower picture is a broken belt. What ply are your tires? The tread in the pictures is rounding out- they should be flat. I believe your tires are of a too light ply for your trailer. My 330RL came with 8ply china bombs new.They broke the belts and got so rounded out that I could no longer fit wheel chocks between them. Switched to good 10ply and problem solved.

[Tireman9]

Originally Posted by Campermike

With my old pop up I had wear like that in the right side when I used cheap tires and they were shot on just the one side in under 3k miles. When I switched to better tires they wore fine and were still on the trailer with 10k miles on them. I am sure that trailer had as bit of alignment issue but better tires made it less of an issue.

Were your original tires Radial or Bias (aka Diagonal)? Your RV certification label should show that information.


What type, size and Load Range are the "better" tires?

[Campermike]

Originally Posted by Tireman9

Were your original tires Radial or Bias (aka Diagonal)? Your RV certification label should show that information.


What type, size and Load Range are the "better" tires?

I no longer own that trailer. The original tires were bias ply iirc and past date when i got the trailer. The first replacements which wore unevenly were also bias. The ones that lasted were radial. All had the same weight rating.

[Tireman9]

Originally Posted by Campermike

I no longer own that trailer. The original tires were bias ply iirc and past date when i got the trailer. The first replacements which wore unevenly were also bias. The ones that lasted were radial. All had the same weight rating.

That wear difference is to be expected with radials getting 2x to 3x the wear of Bias.

[Campermike]

Originally Posted by Tireman9

That wear difference is to be expected with radials getting 2x to 3x the wear of Bias.

not really... it went from massively uneven wear to even treadware. The right tire wore down in 3k miles on one side; the other tire was wearing fine. rotated the spare on and it did the same.