Interesting! I'm gonna have to check them out for sure! thanks :cool:

i forget what they are right now. i just took them all up to quick and gweazy in buckner and told jason i wanted tires.

the motor is coming along slowly. we bought our first house and did a complete remodel and moved in with in a month so i tapped out all my time and money on that. well not all of it. went and got permits today for a 30x40 shop.

My triple axel trailer had sat outside on the side of my house for two years.
I had 3 tires blow the tread out the top.
I put 6 new tires on.

Good year Marathons on a fresh water trailer since 2007. Boat on the lift behind our house, trailer gets used 1-2 a year to the shop for repair or annual maintenance. Trailer does sit outside but I had Sunbrella custom tire covers made. Blew the tread last week at 30 mph on a tire that looked brand new, no dry rot, nothing. Put on the spare that had never been on the road still with the sticker on. Wouldn't take air. Why? Tread separation on the inner surface. That tire had been the brand new spare with a cover on for the last 8 years. Only tires available on a Sunday were "Commodore" from NTB. Replace the rest with new Marathons vs Maxxis? Any opinions?

while the UV sunlight will deteriorate a tire, equally bad is sitting. when a tire sits stationary the oils in the rubber that keep it soft do not migrate to the outside and thru the rubber. enough sitting and the air exposed rubber starts to rot. when you buy tires, especially odd sizes make sure to check the date on them. I have seen many a new tire sold that was already 3 or 4 years old.

My story on tires and age

My 38 Donzi had its OEM trailer since new in 99 and spent its whole life here in toledo and for the first four years of its life was rack stored with trailer in inside storage. Around 04 it went back on its trailer and spent the rest of its life in my hands inside my storage when not in use and when i did take it out it was towed maybe ten miles across town residentialy barely breaking thirty five miles an hour. Tires still looked like new with probably less then a thousand miles total on them. On its first long road trip in 08 (and first time at highway speeds in a long time, maybe since new) the tries started coming apart one at a time around forty miles from Toledo up around Ann Arbor, wiped out both fenders thank god i know a fiberglass guy lol, Had to limp it in for a full set of skins. Yes . . . . they most certainly do degrade over time. My .02 cents anyway :cool:

these tires got regular use so it never really sat and flat spotted. I'm not really sure what killed them they must have deteriorated from the inside or something because they really did look like new pretty much.

IF you are going to stick with ST trailer tires, go with Maxxis. They have been fantastic tires for me, and the majority of the RV community uses them as well.

I've more trouble with Marathons than any other tire, ever, on anything. I truly think they are an inferior tire, even to no-name Chinese tires I once had to buy when in a bind. Don't know about Maxxis, but if your other chose is Marathons, I'd buy the Maxxis tires.

I gave up using radials, IMO the steel sits to much in one position and will get a sit in it. Then take them for a long run and they come apart. Marathons tore up my fender pretty bad 10 years ago and tires were about 10 then. Replaced with bias ply and have had no issue so far.

Just bought a new trailer for my cruiser and had to get it with radials. Will either use it for a few years and get some bias ply later or swap tires on my old trailer (going to sell). Figure it out in the spring

Was going to mention this, once one disintegrates the rest are a matter of miles from doing the same. On my buds eliminator triple axle trailer lost 3 tires on an 60 mile trip...that was a bltch of trip. On my old trailer I saw a bulge on one tire and decided I would limp it back 50 miles home, it was shaking the whole trailer and truck when I got off at my exit, two different tires had bulges on them at that point. The tires were 11yrs old.

Sydwayz, those runflats on vettes are $hit, once you replace them you will be in heaven.