Smooth Ride...Rough Start

[Larry Harp]

Took the new Goodyear Marathons on their maden road trip yesterday. As soon as I got on the freeway I thought, "these tires don't ride any better than my old cupped up bias plys". As I drove along I got on a section of elevated interstate that has expantion joints spaced at regular intervals that got the boat trailer bouncing like a bean can on a string. Thinking this can't be right, I stopped at a Love's truck stop. Couldn't find my tire guage anywhere (later found out it was in my wife's car) so I buy a tire guage and find out that the guy at Wal-Mart that mounted the tires had only inflated them to 30 lbs. No wonder they were bouncing around, heck grandma's Cadillac gets more tire pressure than that. So, I air up both tires plus the spare to the proper 50 lbs. and take off. WOW! What a differance. I never thought that trailer tires could make that much differance. I highly reccomend Goodyear Marathons....inflated to the proper pressure of course.



Harpo

 

[fatrap]

They're suspose to bounce Harpo. How you expect the soda cans in your cooler to blow up if your not bouncing.

I put Marathon's on my trailer several years ago, I like em.



fatrap