The problem with buying tires is that you frequently don’t have a choice in the matter, some disaster has occurred and just like that you’re paying out $500. Or you’ve been happily tooling around the continent and just wear them out. Fine, come up with $500 or die alongside a remote desert road.<\/p>\n
I bought tires for my boat trailer today. Two of them were so bad they were illegal everywhere. I had two choices: replace the pair of bias-ply tires for $350, or upgrade all 4 for $450. Yes, not only were the tires built before radial\/metric became popular, I expect the date of manufacture were in the 1980’s. They had tubes. And one wheel had to be scrapped because the valve stem had worn it’s hole into a pear-shaped configuration. I could go on.<\/p>\n
I went with the new stuff all around. That completes the upgrading of the trailer, a 1979-vintage EZ-Loader with new surge breaks, stainless brake lines and brakes, LED lighting, new winch, and now new tires. Once I work on the rollers, it will be better than new.<\/p>\n
Now that I’m safe going down the road, my next boat project is being safe and legal on the water. But I’m out of money….. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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