I have noticed my trailor tires are wearing bad on the outside. What could cause this? The tires are only 2 years old. The center part of the tires have little wear.
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I have noticed my trailor tires are wearing bad on the outside. What could cause this? The tires are only 2 years old. The center part of the tires have little wear.
What is your tire pressure?
common issue
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Camber. If you have too much Positive Camber it will cause the tires to wear on the outside edge. This could be due to a lot of different reasons including boat weight, bearing issues, bent or damaged axles. I would get it in to a trailer shop sooner rather than later.
Issues could also be from a Caster or toe issue if your axle is off center of your trailer. If that were the case you may expect to see wear on the inside edge of one tire and outside of the other, with evident un-even wear across the center treads as well.
If they are wearing on inside and outside edge, but not center it is underinflated. Keep right at the max it'll hold and hopefully your centers will wear for the next two years and you'll be alright. Keep a spare. Don't overload your boat with gear while trailering like big coolers full of ice if you can help it.
Not that this help your problem, but consider having your tires filled with N2, that gas does not have any moisture, and will not heat up as much as commercial air.When I worked, my company sponsered an Indy car, and all their tires were filled with it, all the truck fleet tires also, and most employees tires were also filled with it. It adds miles.There are sources that will do that, dont know the cost, but its worth checking out.
About 5 bucks a tire.
Had same problem and it appears I had rims that were out of round. I put on different rims and have had no more wear issues.