welcome back to steve rob reviews today we're going to review tires now these are my trailer
tires i've got four different trailers and i'm going to explain everything i know about trailers
and share my opinion and this was a disaster averted i took these off my trailer i put brand
new ones on i'll show you and i'll show you the reason why and why it makes a difference of where
you get your tires from and which country makes them sadly enough try and buy a north american
built trailer tire you're not going to find it so let's take a look at these tires and let's see how
disaster was averted well let's take a look at the first thing that most people should be aware of
and that is the build date and there it is right there 2008 the third month so how long
should you keep your trailer tires on your trailer well you know what after seven years
i checked them over real well and i have not used this trailer in about four years
and you're going to be just amazed at what i found now where does this tire come from well
i'll show you on the back side and i'll show you a little bit of a man-made defect here and
if you take a look real close right there made in prc and that's china people's republic of china
both these tires are the exact same age and if we just take a look and see what's going on here
look at this now you think you would have found this on the outside of the tire
no no no you only find this on the inside at the top where you would never guess it would be right
and this tire junk so where's this tire here from made in the usa you see how big that is
when you're proud of what you build you put a big maid in the usa on it you don't
hide it down in the back in a little tiny spot like this right so what's wrong with this tire
well this is a man-made problem too but it's my man-made problem not the manufacturer now this
is a carlisle tire i don't think you'll find this made in the usa anymore and this is my fault just
gouging it up here i don't know how i got this but you know when you're pulling a trailer you never
know right and uh if we take a look right here for trailer use only i see far too many trailers on
the road today where they take off their old set of uh car and truck tires they slap it on their
trailer no no no no no that's bozo stuff don't be doing that that's just completely bozo stuff so
take a look at these tires the tread is like brand new i don't have 5000k on these tires this
one here would have fallen apart on the highway easily you want to tore the cap right off here
with that big tear and that's where you see all these
these caps all over the highway sometimes blowing out tire that's what happens this one here well
the tire is just getting too old plus i don't like the idea of that uh you know that big gouge on the
side of it there so let's take a look and see what i did and i'll show you the tires i put on
so here's my trailer yes i put brand new tires on you cannot find made in north america
trailer tires and so that's the best i can do and of course every year after about a couple
of years you know you should really take them off take a look around you know inspect them
all the way around you never know when you're going to get a gouge or anything like that right
and i'm going to transport this in my trailer with about 600 pounds of
concrete pre-mixed and this is an interesting project i got on the go i'll show this in
the future and i got to bring up 12 bags of concrete and they're going to go in the trailer
and the last thing i need is to be going up the highway and have a cap just rip right off
now i've got a good spare under here and i make sure that it's not in the sun and it's
protected from the elements before i go i always check to make sure the tire pressure is fine
and same as on these tires before every trip i'll be inspecting them and make sure tire pressure is
fine you know how many times i've been driving along the highways and seeing the trailers on
the side of the road guess what most of them are old beat up tires or car tires or truck tires or
tires that have no business being on the road so what's my view on these particular tires
i'll concentrate on the trailer tires well the first thing is the best trailer tire i ever used
like i said i have four different trailers is good year marathon and they used to be made in the usa
and nah not no more so i thought you know like what's what's the sense here right so you only
get what you pay for right but what happens when you have no choice that you have to pay for stuff
like these prk publish repub people's republic of china tires where you could see where yeah i mean
they're not up the snuff on their tire technology and how to actually make a half decent tire
they sell their tires on value so how long should you keep a tire running on your trailer
for me the max is like 10 years i mean these ones here were stamped 2008 right
so when i bought them they weren't like they were stamped 2008 but i believe i bought them in 2009
or maybe a little bit past that so i knew that these tires were just around the 10-year mark take
a look at them look them over before i actually take it out in the road and what do i find like
you say do you want to go down the highway with these pieces of crap on your on your trailer i
mean it cost you a lot of money to be on the side of the road especially if the cap falls right off
you blow it out you go down the highway trailer go sideways on you guess what and you know what in
a utility trailer like this you got no insurance unless you tell your insurance company and you pay
for a separate rider for hauling a utility trailer you have absolutely no insurance on your vehicle
and the damage caused therein is all on you so you know what it's a heavy price for cheap
crappy tires right so the tires i put on yeah they're made in china too and i have no choice so
i'll be inspecting these real good i do not expect to get like the longevity out of a say a goodyear
marathon no way not even close they're the top-notch tire as far as i'm concerned and there's
a lot of good manufacturers out there i just haven't found any that have been made in north
america have you any of you leave a comment if you bought a tire for your trailer lately that's been
made in north america because i looked i phoned around no no no they don't even want to talk
about where they're made anymore they got a little tiny tag on the inside you see how small that was
made in p r c and on the other one big lettering like this made on usa well you can tell where the
pride of workmanship and quality is when they're not trying to hide where the manufacturer is ah
some of you are going to say oh you're bashing china god damn right i'm bashing china they build
a bunch of crap as far as i'm concerned when it comes to tires that's not the first time i've
seen this i've seen this time and time and time again not just on my equipment but other people's
equipment when i look at their trailer and i see let's just take a good look at these tires because
i know they're chinese tires right let's take a good look at them and what do i see quite often
all along the cap a great big huge crack going along there
and uh in my experience i don't see that in made in usa stuff so that's just my own opinion and
you know when it comes to tires and tire safety most people just hook it up head down the highway
say levy you know put their blinders on and just hope for the best and they're the ones that are
on the side of the highway all the time broken down family full of uh kids packed up you know
they got the big uh truck just loaded down full of everything and the trailer is way overloaded too
now they say what are we gonna do now right so and you know a lot of times i stop and
you know many people don't even have a spare don't have a spare for their trailer
or have no way of putting it on that's the part that really blows my mind if you're going to go
down the highway with a trailer on make sure that if you get a flat tire you have way of taking
it off so i mean you know this is another thing that a lot of people don't think about they just
think that these things will just run forever and last forever until they're the one on the highway
stuck on the side of the road and in big trouble so thanks for joining me here today i'm just
sharing my opinions yours may be different leave me a comment down below what you think about uh
people's republic of china tires because uh well you know what i think right come back again if you
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