Had a guy that had just bought an aluminum boat this weekend and towing it back home blowout right in front of the house, boat couldn't have been but a couple years old, luckily I had a floor jack right in the garage. Hot roads in the summer and under inflated tires are a recipe for disaster, especially on single axle trailers.

Good Year Endurance are the best

Endurance are the best I've found but seen some reports of early failures with those too with tire built after 2020, always keep and eye on your tires before towing

I have never had good luck with any Goodyear tire......ever. I quit using them many years ago because of the bad experience I had with all of them, vehicle tires as well as trailer tires. Many other brands way better than Goodyear.

Just put Endurance on mine, bought from Amazon $25 cheaper each than any where else and manufacture date was within a month of purchase. They are heavy tires so we will see how long they last...

We presently use General on trailers standard, as was pointed out. We have had good luck with Goodyear passenger car (vehicle) tires, though not the trailer tires. Trailer tires cost us much less, as an OEM, than do passenger car tires. That doesn't equate in the retail market because volume is so much higher and tire jobbers just don't have the volume to buy in mass quantities. People tend to not replace trailer tires as frequent as their vehicle tires, and seldom do they get wear as unless they have a bent spindle/axle.

While there is no standard regulation on tire age, Michelin says they should be replaced in ten years and other tire manufacturers now give that same advice. Tire distributors generally won't sell one to mount that is over five years of age, and that practice is usually followed in the field by tire shops, including Walmart today.

We have found that Maxxis has seemed to be a good trailer tire to buy, if you must run a trailer tire for your personal flavor. If you want to run passenger car tires, then the rule of thumb is buy one that runs to your maximum capacity, with a deduction of 15%, and some use 10%. The NATM (National Association of Trailer Manufacturers) standards suggest you use the 15% less than rated capacity on passenger car tires.

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I have a bunch of relatives that used to work at the General tire factory in Texas. This was back in the 80's so the company and quality may have changed since then but even as employees they wouldn't run their tires. One of my uncles said, and I quote, "those are the sh***est tires made"

If they fail, we don't use them. Over the years we have swapped between those several Bridgestone companies (50/50), Firestone (good), Goodyear (good), Cooper (varied) and now we are with Continental/General (good). We also offer an import trailer grade Trail King tire on some models, which we have had good results with, though they usually have limited comparable miles on those models.

The General tires we have used now for almost a decade with very good results.

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They closed the Waco plant and others for good reason. Their technology and processes were antiquated. It was cheaper to close down and start over versus reboot.