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| First off, Sweet boat Mike! Congrats. Very nice ride. You went from one sweet ride to another sweet ride. :thumbsup:
Secondly...
Man....how ironic with the timing of a trailer tire thread.
Just this past Saturday, on my way up from Indy to the lake, I blew a Carlisle trailer tire. Just four hours prior to the trip, I had aired up my tires (cold mind you) and greased the bearings for that weekends trip. Glad I checked ALL three tires. It's not often I pay attention to the spare. De Ja Vue? I dunno...but I aired up the spare that same day too. Thankfully I did that.
This is the second Carlise I've blown in less than a year.
Last summer, I blew a Carlisle with my lightweight, 14ft aluminum Sea Nymph riding on a single axle trailer. Shreded the tire, blew out my tail light and destroyed the license plate bracket.
This past weekend, blew another Carlisle trailer tire with my Crestliner 1750 riding on a single axle trailer tire. HOWEVER! I must note, that I had a rather "small" incident which sent me off-road for a few seconds avoiding creating an accident. As I re-entered the highway...."thar she blows!" 
The belts were sticking out of the tire in places it shouldn't have been sticking out of. LOL!
I'm still on two good tires...this weekend: Buying three new tires. Opting to not go with Carlisle. Not sure if I had a run of the bad batch that Sworral was talking about or what. But..I'm not going to chance it.
Toooo many years throughout the years going on vacations and traveling many miles and having so much wasted time spent on the sides of roads changing tires. Not just our familys trailer tires on boats, we're talking snowmobile trailer tires, work trailer tires, friends and uncles boat trailer tires, etc. For a few extra bucks...it's worth the peace of mind of traveling in relaxation vs. holding your breath and squinting over each and every bump in the road hoping your tires survive.
There's an old saying: "You get what you pay for."
And that holds true quite a bit.
I even question the rating on my Shorelander single axle trailer being big enough/strong enough for my 'lil Crestliner 1750.
This is the first time since I've own the boat (only have owned the boat for less than a year) that I've traveled with trolling motor batteries in the boat. I JUST bought two brand new 31 series trolling motor batteries and installed them in the boat before this trip. And those batteries storage compartment is right above the trailer's axle. I'd guess those batteries to weigh about 80 lbs each...give or take and that's adding about 160 lbs right over the axle.
I travel up to Michigan to places where our cabin is 10 miles back in a National Forest and it's all dirt/rock roads...I surely don't want to puncture a tire out there either due to a rock going through a cheap tire.
Edited by MACK 4/6/2006 9:11 PM
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