Andrew65
South Mississippi
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Has anyone purchased tires from Eastern Marine online/Trailertires.com? Or anyone running the "Loadstar" brand trailer tires? Looking for opinions on both. Thanks for any input you have.
07' Dodge Ram 2500 5.9 Cummins
06' Cherokee 28A+
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tvman44
Southwest Louisiana
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Stay away from Loadstar tires, pure trash. Had to remove mine after only 1 year and 5,800 miles.
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1* 2002 F250 Super Duty 7.3L PSD
Husky 16K hitch, Tekonsha P3,
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"A bad day camping is better than a good day at work!"
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Chuck&Gail
In the Colorado Mountains
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Note some on-line tire sales are a "good" (read cheap) price because the tires are VERY OLD. Ask Tire Rack to guarantee tire age, bet they will not even guarantee under four YEARS old. Can't say if Eastern Marine is also dumping old tires, but IMO at least ask.
Chuck
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Lovely German Shepherd.
1999 Mercedes ML320 TV
2003 Wanderer 187TB Toybox (3620# UVW, 4800# loaded)
Not yet camped in Hawaii, 2 Canada Provinces, & 2 Territories.
I can't be lost because I don't care where this lovely road is going
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smkettner
Southern California
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loadstar search
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cdmyers
Lake Guntersville, AL
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After reading all of the tire post I could find on this forum and based upon my trailer needs I decided to go with the Maxxis M8008 ST Radials for my boat trailer. The Maxxis website was very helpfull in locating a local dealer and this morning I got three new ST225/75R15 tires (2 for the road + 1 spare) for just $310 including: mounting, ballancing, stems, old tire disposal and tax.
I could not find LT tires for that and the only other thing I found cheeper in my area were E rated China made tires. I did not need the E rating so I went with the Maxxis. Did I mention that the tires were made in March of this year? So, I realy did get NEW tires.
Clark Myers
Teke's Pride is my Freedom 21 cat rigged sailboat.
Homeport is Lake Guntersville in North Alabama.
I trailer cruise to Jacksonville and Tampa, FL.
My tow Vehicle is a 2006 GMC Canyon 2WD Crew Cab with a 3.5L in line 5 cyl.
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BurbMan
Long Island, NY
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Independent tests have shown that round tires will outperform all other shapes.
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Marinermark
Fort Myers, FL
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I put Loadstar bias-ply LR D 13" tires on my 25'TT after the Goodyear and Maxxis radials kept coming apart. Put 9,000 miles on them this summer and they held up OK. Except that I put the rated 65 psi in them (1650 lbs capacity) and the front tires wore down around the center. I wrote Kenda Tires. They recommended only 50 psi for the actual 1200# load. I'll buy more Loadstars for the next trip.
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Andrew65
South Mississippi
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I went ahead and bought through Eastern Marine online/Trailertires.com. Ordered on a Friday and the tires came in on Thursday. Goodyear Marathons on white spoke rims, mounted and ready to go, were $500 with shipping to my door. The tire code is a 3309, so they were made the 33rd week of 2009, is the way I read it. That should be the 1st week of August, so they haven't been hidden in the the back of the warehouse. Nice, freindly service and good prices from what I have checked on. And yes, there are round.
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