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Whoa! I just got me a 6X15 Legend Deluxe trailer with a tandem axle. I was driving home and I saw a boat trailer had a flat with a tandem axle -- and it was listing, but maybe because he was changing the tire.
My trailer weighs only 1550 lbs, but it has drag like a parachute! Anyway, if you get a flat tire on one wheel, should you carry around a spare tire + wheel?
I need a better jack, and I have to look for my Ryobi Lithium Battery powered impact wrench... Yeah, I think I have a nearly complete set of those Ryobi One tools from Home Depot. Because I don't have a house or garage, I need portable battery powered tools.
Sure you should. First of all most likely the trailer came with cheap Chinese made tires on it. They are complete junk and you will want to replace them ASAP with quality made American made tires.
As far as having the proper tools to change the tire, that's easy. You can buy a bottle jack and a breaker bar at any of your knock off tool places like Harbor Freight for just a few bucks which you can store in a small place inside the trailer. The spare tire and rim you can normally mount around the tongue of the trailer......
This is a Legend Deluxe Trailer, not a cheapo thing. They put top quality tires on it and it has awesome lightweight aluminum wheels.
I'll look either into bottle jacks or a load leveler. But why not use a wheel ramp where you drive and one wheel gets lifted, then the other wheel is in the air? Like these ramps are used for oil changes, too.
Don't ever go anywhere towing a trailer without a spare!
When a tire fails on a tandem axle trailer, the adjacent tire is instantly overloaded.
On my last trip with the trailer, I had a tire blow out. I pulled onto the shoulder which was not level. The small bottle jack would not raise it enough to get the spare on. Fortunately a Georgia Trooper came along with a floor jack and got me going.
I have seen many tires blow on travel trailers, but I have never seen one worn out.
Well, I don't have immediate tire blowout worries since the trailer is like still NEW... But I have a Legend Cargo Trailer 6X15 that only weighs 1550 lbs, so if one wheel blows out the other wheel definitely has the capability of carrying that side. My minivan has a 3800 lb tow capacity, but I'd load the trailer with up to 2000 lbs of stuff, in cargo transfer mode. In RV mode, I guess the load of stuff I'd carry would be up to 120 lbs of cargo max.
Oh, and I think Legend Cargo Trailers are the #1 in quality best trailers around! The Deluxe versions look so sexy!
Well, I don't have immediate tire blowout worries since the trailer is like still NEW....
The last blow-out I had was on my 5-day-old 5th wheel. I'd guess it had 5-600 miles on it. I took the remaining 4 tires and traded them for 5 bigger ones. Dealer gave me something for them, don't remember how much, and it didn't matter. The originals were Goodyears, but they came from China, of course. I was traveling at 75 mph, a little fast for ST tires.
You should always have a spare. What if you're tire blows and then down the road shortly and the other tire blows, picks up a nail or rod, a stop stick, etal.
This is a Legend Deluxe Trailer, not a cheapo thing. They put top quality tires on it and it has awesome lightweight aluminum wheels.
I'll look either into bottle jacks or a load leveler. But why not use a wheel ramp where you drive and one wheel gets lifted, then the other wheel is in the air? Like these ramps are used for oil changes, too.
Lol...they put cheapo Chinese made tires on 100 thousand dollar RV's. If you don't know how to read the tire code stamped on the side of every tire you need to learn how. If tells you things like what country the tire was manufacturered in, the week and year the tire was produced etc... it's pretty common for Chinese made tires to have a blow out within the first 100 miles of them being used.....so being " new" does not give you any extra satety margin
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