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05-14-2012, 09:21 AM
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I've had Carlisle E-rate radial trailer tires for a couple of years now with no problems. My buddy's trailer had D-rated on it when he bought it new (actually had 2 bias and 2 radial but he didn't catch it until later) probably 4-5 years ago. His trail rig is full-sized F250 with 1-tons, big-block, 42's, etc... so is probably in the 6k range plus he regularly hauls other cars and trucks he buys (I know he's had some crewcab 1-ton trucks on it). He has never had a tire failure after all of these years and many thousands of miles. There is a lot of negative comments about Carlisle and Goodyear on the internet, but they are proportional to how many are out there. Somebody has any type of issue with a tire and they jump on the internet and complain about it, even if there is more to the story (i.e. probably not the actual tire's fault). Very, very few people get on the internet and say "I bought these tires and they do fine). When you have 1/2 million tires in the public all you need is a fraction of a percent of tires with issues to get hundreds or thousands of negative internet posts. The reason you don't see many negative posts on these Chinese brands is simply because there are not nearly as many out there. Let's say there are a 1/2 million Carlisle and Goodyear trailer tires on the market. If only 0.5% of these tires have issues you get 25,000 complaints. A new Chinese trailer tire comes on the market that only has 50,000 tires in the market but has a 25% issue rate....that's only half as many complaints. So what tire is better? The one only has half the internet bashing posts even though there issue rate is much higher? You may think the numbers above are an exaggeration to prove a point but I would say they they probably aren't too far off. With that said I know a couple of guys with Chinese tires they seem to be doing fine. |
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