lansmi67
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Post by lansmi67 on Sept 28, 2019 8:14:22 GMT -5
How many owners have had trouble with the trail king tires. We got our Connect in April and had had a blowout last week, less than 1500 miles on the tires. Other than that we love our Connect.
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Post by Chuck on Sept 28, 2019 8:55:37 GMT -5
lansmi67 There is hundreds of threads on what is so called China Bombs (cheap tires made in China) ... among five or six others ...
It's hard to realize that MFG's put these cheaper tires on new trailers an allot of owners will change their tires out right away, some straight from the dealer to a tire shop to upgrade tires, an some owners will even have the tires changed at the dealers as part of the deal...
One of the biggest reasons the MFG put cheaper tires on tires is to keep the cost down to them an also to market the trailer at a lower cost to owners ... In other words it's about the bottom line to them an selling you a trailer at a cheaper price so you will buy their trailer ... Some owners will not buy a trailer if the price is $30 higher than another brand of trailer even if it had better tires on it, so you might say it's the fault of not only the Mfg's but the fault of buyers as well ... I'm not saying it's your fault, it's the fault of many buyers across the board, be it $80,000 5th wheel or a $20.000 TT, for the most part they all have cheaper tires on them for the most part ...
I will say in Kz's defense they have upgraded their heavier 5th wheels to better tires than they had in the past an made such safer  So I hate to say it an others will tell you that you are along with many, many, many others the
victim of China Bombs sorry to say ...
Safe Travels Chuck |
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Post by nvguy on Sept 28, 2019 18:56:29 GMT -5
What Chuck said..
And for me, between the delivery drivers, the dealer's lot porters, and sitting I prefer having tires with a clear history (no bouncing off curbs, questionable flat repairs, being ran under-inflated at high speed). It's cheap insurance.
Figure what one failure will cost: Initial service call after failure to get you rolling again, your insurance deductible to fix what the failure damaged and possible ruined trip.
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lansmi67
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Post by lansmi67 on Sept 29, 2019 7:39:55 GMT -5
Thank you for the tire information, Ithink I will be looking at new tires.
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Post by johnr on Sept 30, 2019 6:36:48 GMT -5
Hi welcome!
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Post by Edd505 on Sept 30, 2019 22:22:44 GMT -5
Thank you for the tire information, Ithink I will be looking at new tires. chuck pretty well told the story. Pull the good tires you have, put them on Craigs List some one will buy them and you can put that $$ toward a set of better tires. Lots of "better tires" available, I personally run truck tires but there are some newer ST's that look good.
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Post by rvdude on Oct 1, 2019 21:36:06 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum and to KZ trailers.
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