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Old 05-11-2020, 10:53 AM   #1
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Replacing tires on a 3725RL. Tire company trying to sell me an N rated tire... not RV specific. Is this normal?
 
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Old 05-11-2020, 11:51 AM   #2
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I dunno what tire you are specifically talking about. The N rating I'm familiar with is for "speed" not application. Beyond that you'll find a lively discussion brewing for people that go with ST "trailer tires" and others that go with LT "light truck tires". If you have a light enough trailer as I do ... LT tires fill the requirement. I as others have been running them to get away from China Bomb ST's for many years without issue. Goodyear 614's and Sailun 637's are good trailer tires as well.
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Old 05-11-2020, 12:40 PM   #3
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Get a set of Sailum tires. You can’t go wrong. In years past about the only thing we could get were ST tires made in China hence China Bombs. You understand where the phrase came from. Not only did the tire blow out it took the side of your camper with it. Now more people are using H rated tires and tires are much less problematic. The Sailum have a great reputation and good price, get em.
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Stick with Sailuns or 614's and you'll be fine.
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Just installed new Sailun 637 on our rig. I have been hard pressed to find anything negative about them. Fair price, and dependability are both there. Safe travels!
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On our second set of Sailun tires. Highly recommend them. Who was the manufacturer of the tires the dealer recommended?
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You can,t go wrong with the Sailun tires at all look at reviews.
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Thanks for the help!
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Old 05-12-2020, 08:09 PM   #9
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Sailun tires are made in China

The title says it all, I will pay more for a tire not maid in China....
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The title says it all, I will pay more for a tire not maid in China....
I understand your sentiments on made in China, but you can't buy a better fifth wheel tire then a Sailun. Its unfortunate thats where it is made, but its a quality tire that many run on their fifth wheels. Anyone thats taken the time ,and educated themselves on tires know about Sailuns .
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Search and you can find loads of Goodyear tire failures, myself for one, but you will be hard pressed to find a Sailun failure other than one or two road hazard failures.
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Replacing tires on a 3725RL. Tire company trying to sell me an N rated tire... not RV specific. Is this normal?
Remember the most important thing. Insure the new tires have a load capacity equal to or greater than the OE tires.

I'm guessing your OE tires are ST235/80R16 LRE. That designated size is also built with an all steel casing and at least a half dozen manufacturers provide them with a LRG.

As a full time, high mileage user I'm not fond of mail order tires. But, I don't recommend brands so search around.
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Remember the most important thing. Insure the new tires have a load capacity equal to or greater than the OE tires.

I'm guessing your OE tires are ST235/80R16 LRE. That designated size is also built with an all steel casing and at least a half dozen manufacturers provide them with a LRG.

As a full time, high mileage user I'm not fond of mail order tires. But, I don't recommend brands so search around.

I ordered a set of 5 Sailuns online, and I agree not fond of that at all. First set was from SimpleTire , the date of manufacturing was too old for me. I sent them back. Next set from Walmart were okay, and actually a bit cheaper .

I will say SimpleTire was easy to work with,, and returned the tires without a problem. There was two options either have them picked up from your home or take them to the shipper. I chose to take them to the shipper, and get the process started instead of waiting a day or two for them to be picked up.
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Search and you can find loads of Goodyear tire failures, myself for one, but you will be hard pressed to find a Sailun failure other than one or two road hazard failures.
I was a victim of a road hazard ,and one that reported here on the forum. Yes I will stick to Sailuns. Not a fan of Goodyear .
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Just received 4 new Sailuns. Having them mounted and balanced tomorrow. Wow, those are heavy tires. Speaks volumes on the quality.
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After two years using the OEM tires, I felt we were pushing it, so I ordered the Sailuns (for improved safety) and went a little larger profile (265/85 R/16) to help raise the 5'er up a little more and level with truck. In monitoring daily pricing from Simpletire.com, the price of the tire can change as much as $50 each in one day? One day it was listed at $127.65 and next $176.00 and hasn't gone below $160 for a week. Called them and tried to get better pricing, but they were not willing to go lower than $155 with healthcare professional discount. I was so frustrated trying to wait and time my purchase for the lower price, that I just ordered from Amazon at $142.60 FET tax included. Tires were delivered in 2 days and were sent from Simpletire.com ? Date codes all 6 months old - reasonable considering tires had to be imported from China. Local tire shop was blown away and very impressed with how thick and heavy the tires where. Hope to have the same good experience as everyone else with Sailuns.
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Sailun tires on my unit for probably around four years, same size as OEM junk that Keystone installed. Do a search on here for Sailun and you can see when the fun really started pertaining to quality tires. Back then there was a lot of support for the Goodyear’s G614’s if I remember the model number correctly. They were way better than the Trail Kings or other AKA China bombs. They still had a fair number of blowouts with Goodyear standing by their tires most of the time at least for a replacement tire, maybe not so much for help on repair of the fifth wheel. I did a lot of research and could not find any blowouts with Sailun on a fifth wheel. I did find one blowout on the Sailun when a guy put them on his DRW truck but they were not rated for DRW back then and were strictly a Trailer Tire. I can’t blame them for that blowout. One Sailun tire By itself will probably weigh about as much as the cheap tire and rim does together. I have never looked back on my decision and really have no fear of a blowout.
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Replacing tires on a 3725RL. Tire company trying to sell me an N rated tire... not RV specific. Is this normal?
I would find a dealer that knows something about tires. BTY Sailin, Maxxis, Good Year, and other reputable brands make great trailer tires. It does not matter if they are made in China or not if the mfg meets ISO manufacturing standards. I don't recommend China Mfg tire for political reasons.
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I run Bridgsetone Duravis R250 and Michelin XPS Ribs currently. They cost around or at least $200 - $300
Got tired of less than $200 Tire performance...
Maybe I'm getting what I pay for - only one PUNCTURE failure to date on these tire in the last 5 years...
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Don’t want to hijack this thread but I have saluns on my 3791 RD. How often should I replace them. Time will get them before Mileage does .
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