Tire replacement - Event Date: 18 Jan 2023

Under inflation and hitting potholes and debris on the road can destroy even the very best made tires.  Moral of the story, monitor the tire pressure very carefully and and try not to hit road hazards on the highway.  No tire is indestructible.  

Wallyworld has that size in Carlisle for $99 they say:  https://www.walmart.com/ip/Carlisle-Radial-Trail-HD-ST225-75R15-113M-D-Trailer-Tire/55012157?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0

To be clear, If your asking, I'm not recommending Westlakes or Goodyears or Carlisles or any other particular brand. The brand I bought was Loadstar but I have no basis to recommend that brand over another. None.

My recommendation is to forget the brand. Ive taken a couple graduate level marketing courses. Buying anything by brand is a shortcut consumers afraid of making a mistake take when they don't have enough actual information to make an informed decision. Companies know that very well and play on those fears. So unless you have actual 3rd party data supporting the decision to buy one brand over another (not just a company's marketing BS or some guy who'd rather blame China for his blowout than check his tire pressure)   you're only doing that so you feel better. Which is fine if that's how you want to spend your money.

So my recommendation is to buy premounted ST tires and aluminum wheels on line from Eastern Trailer or wherever. Do the research to be sure that both the tires and wheels you buy have a load rating (in pounds not letters) around 25% above your axle rating. That choice, unlike brand choice, makes logical sense and has an actual engineering basis behind it.

Get wheels with a 5 x 4.5 bolt pattern. Get 15 inch wheels and tires and put on the lift kit if you don't it already.

Have the tires and wheels delivered to your home and put them on yourself. Good practice for when you have a flat later, and if it's time you can inspect your electric brakes and repack your bearings while you have your trailer jacked up.

Then sell your old tires and wheels on CL. Some guy who needs tires and wheels for an old boat or utility trailer he only uses for local towing will be happy to have them. Keep your new tires inflated to their rated pressure. Check them before starting out every morning when youre on the road.

That's my recommendation. Worked great for me doing it that way, and it's got an actual technical and financial basis justifying it.

If you dont have the time to do that (relatively minor) amount of homework then that's fine by me too, just buy by brand.

Good grief LA, please spare me the sophistry. You are not reading what I'm saying.

I said that unless you have 3rd party data demonstrating that one product from one brand is better than another then purchasing by brand is pointless. You can go to a 3rd party like Consumer Reports and evaluate a Fiat vs a BMW. You'd have to do that by model, not by overall brand, auto reliability can and does vary greatly by model within a brand. And of course you'd need to compare competitive models, I doubt anyone considering buying a BMW model would be looking at Fiats.

But for sure, Consumer Reports is a good 3rd party source for comparing reliability data between car models. I've not seen anything equivalent regarding trailer tire reliability and I've looked. Have you? It's all anechdote.

As for pricing, I wound up with installed 15 inch 2100 lb rated tires and wheels for significantly less than I would have paid for replacement "brand name" mounted 1750 lb tires. Hence my suggestion. I have no idea if that is true today or not, but I have confidence that hank*pod (who was specifically asking me if I had a Westlake alternative for Goodyear) or anyone else on this forum is smart enough to do that conparison shopping themselves for their specific situation, if so inclined. The fact that you took the time to do that yourself indicates to me that all you want to do is argue with me.

The brand argument isn't one I want to get into with you, yet again. I specifically said that it's just fine with me if someone wants to buy by brand, it's just not something I do, or would recommend. Enough on that already.

As for CL, if you don't like advertising there that's fine. There's also Facebook Marketplace and many other alternatives. I buy and sell stuff on both often, and know how to sift through the scammers and tire kickers, most of the time anyway. I like repurposing stuff someone else no longer needs, and vice versa, rather than sending stuff to recycling or the landfill. That's just me If CL or FB aren't your cup of tea, that's fully understandable and ok in my book.