Thread: What would cause a trailer tire wear like this??

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Mileage is part of the issues, but the age (IE: date on the tire) of the tires is the other. In addition, trailer tires are not as UV tolerant as a car/truck tire. I'll be curious to know the date on the tires.


Bill S.

Originally Posted by mrmustang

Mileage is part of the issues, but the age (IE: date on the tire) of the tires is the other. In addition, trailer tires are not as UV tolerant as a car/truck tire. I'll be curious to know the date on the tires.


Bill S.

The trailer is about 4yrs old but I haven’t checked the date code. Actually I had forgotten about that and will check it out. We’re 5hrs from my house near St. Louis and it’s take about 3500 miles for this to show up. We do have good tires on the back at the moment and I’ll check them every time we stop, which is about once every hour or so.
Renee’s son did raise the adjustable receiver up a couple of inches because the truck itself was loaded and I was told that may have been part of the problem. So I lowered it back down. And I also did notice this morning that it looks like the bushing in the spreader/pivot between the springs looked like the might be smashed out. So I have some work to do when we get back to my house.
Thanks for the info…joe

Originally Posted by TooMany2count

Renee’s son did raise the adjustable receiver up a couple of inches because the truck itself was loaded and I was told that may have been part of the problem. So I lowered it back down.
Thanks for the info…joe

I was going to say to check that the trailer is sitting level (or pretty near it) it may be the suspensions may not be loaded equally. Also, the tires set to the same psi??