Tires

[John Dorrer]

Brand new owner discovered Chinese made tires on his new trailer. Castle Rock Tires. Oliver has stated they are installing Goodyear Endurance 15", 10-ply "E" Rated tires.

 

So how does a Chinese tire end up on a brand new Oliver trailer?  Chinese tires have resulted in hundreds of blowouts on stick built trailers where everything is cheap.

 

This is strange. I told him he needed to reach out to Oliver asap.

 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by John Dorrer
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[Tom and Doreen]

Hmmm.....I wonder if his trailer was bought from a dealer or he possibly bought it from a private owner. 

[John Dorrer]

20 minutes ago, Tom and Doreen said:

Hmmm.....I wonder if his trailer was bought from a dealer or he possibly bought it from a private owner. 

Brand new trailer picked up last week, but don't know it was a Dealer or Hoenwald.

[Steph and Dud B]

It's possible a dealer swapped the tires out. I've heard of dealers doing that sort of thing. Example: The sale of some other brand trailer they have on the lot is held up because the customer doesn't want the Castle Rock tires. There's the unsold Oliver over there with brand new Goodyears in the same size. Problem solved! 

[John Dorrer]

Apparently, Oliver has now switched to the Chinese Tires. This has been confirmed by a reliable source.🙃

[CRM]

1 hour ago, John Dorrer said:

Apparently, Oliver has now switched to the Chinese Tires. This has been confirmed by a reliable source.🙃

Best built camper in the market... riding on Chinese steel springs and Chinese tires? .  

[jd1923]

2 hours ago, John Dorrer said:

Apparently, Oliver has now switched to the Chinese Tires. This has been confirmed by a reliable source.🙃

Wow! Really? Can this be true?

Six years ago, I purchased an old 12’ flatbed trailer to haul our dirt bikes and SxS. Dexter tandem axle 7K, same suspension as OEM Oliver. I planned to restore it, new wiring, lights, paint frame, new flooring, add brakes to the rear axle, etc.

OMG, It had China tires! I quickly purchased a set of the US made Goodyear Endurance ST tires. Listed the old tires on Craig’s. Sold the set for $100 because I didn’t want to take any more money from anybody. I explained twice to the new owner, these are not safe for highway use! He was OK in using them for a landscape trailer.

John, please explain to your friend he needs to buy new tires! Anybody taking possession of a new Oliver, let OTT know you’ll not accept delivery with those cheap tires! 🙃

Glad most of us have 16” rims with LT tires mounted! 

Edited 17 hours ago by jd1923

[Steph and Dud B]

2 hours ago, John Dorrer said:

Apparently, Oliver has now switched to the Chinese Tires. This has been confirmed by a reliable source.

Please tell me you're kidding.

[John Dorrer]

2 hours ago, Steph and Dud B said:

Please tell me you're kidding.

Nope, and these tires are on a list of "China Bomb Tires", thinner sidewalls, tread delamination, and blowouts

 

[Steph and Dud B]

10 hours ago, John Dorrer said:

these tires are on a list of "China Bomb Tires"

Yes, they are. There's a long history of people reporting sudden, catastrophic failures of Castle Rock tires. One of our previous trailers came with them and we replaced them before our first trip. I advise anyone who gets an Oliver wearing Castle Rock tires to replace them immediately with a quality trailer tire like Goodyear Endurance. We also had very good luck with Maxxis M8008 ST tires. Ran those on two or our trailers for years and many miles after Goodyear started having problems with their Marathon trailer tires (which they later replaced with the improved Endurance).

[Tom and Doreen]

15 hours ago, jd1923 said:

 

John, please explain to your friend he needs to buy new tires! 

 

....And springs!! 

[srthomsen]

Shades of Sephen King. Will these tires become a sequel to Christine?

[CRM]

23 minutes ago, Tom and Doreen said:

....And springs!! 

Since they're putting Alcan's on the new X23 models, maybe they'll offer that same upgrade to anyone ordering a standard model?