Looking like a new set of tires coming up for the van. The van was fitted with A/T tires, I'm wondering if A/Ts are necessary, as none of the wheels are driving, and its mainly towed on the bitumen or some gravel roads. Standard road tyres would be OK, my thoughts.
I agree, I suppose ATs would provide fractionally more grip but it's driven wheels where they really help.
Again I suppose they are tougher than road tyres but most don't take their vans off-road much and even with the off-roading I do the OEM road tyres on my van have performed well. Some fit light truck to caravans for wear and toughness but I've no idea how they compare price wise.
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Looking like a new set of tires coming up for the van. The van was fitted with A/T tires, I'm wondering if A/Ts are necessary, as none of the wheels are driving, and its mainly towed on the bitumen or some gravel roads. Standard road tyres would be OK, my thoughts.
Hi Iana.
Went though this problem last year with our caravan, knew I did not want or need aggressive tyres again but it was not so easy finding available more roadable tyres in these covid times.
My choice was Kumho Crugen HT51 235/75 15 M/S 109T, load rating 1030 kgs. There was about 30 in stock in Brisbane alone and are fairly common.
Bonus of my choice is they are seriously quiet, small weight saving and better fuel economy.
Looking like a new set of tires coming up for the van. The van was fitted with A/T tires, I'm wondering if A/Ts are necessary, as none of the wheels are driving, and its mainly towed on the bitumen or some gravel roads. Standard road tyres would be OK, my thoughts.
Hi
In another life I was supervising a tire repair shop in a third world country at a trade school. All bad roads, big holes, coarse gravel and rocks but slow speeds, no highways there. Mainly used Japanese imported tires for sale(container loads !).I can say definitely that light truck tires were preferred because the off road style tires 'always' ended their life by the carcass failing before they wore out. We learnt to just roll the wheel and look at it before we started work.
But light truck tires of similar size seldom failed and wore out(poor alinement !). My limited but directly observed knowledge.
I chose to put LT tires on my single axle car trailer and they lasted till I sold it 25 years later and often loaded to the max load for it. Never had a failure.
Jaahn
-- Edited by Jaahn on Saturday 20th of November 2021 07:58:29 PM
The C-Type tire, on the other hand, is specifically meant as a commercial-rated tire, with a higher load rating for a given size than many LT tires. These C-Type tires will show the letter C immediately after the wheel diameter in the tire code.
I have no emotion about brand when it comes to tyres for the caravan as long as they are not AT's, I try to get C rated tyres or LT's/MT's with a higher load index my current tyres are Rapid 225/70 R15C which I pruchased from Tempe Tyres in Sydney.
My last set of tyres were Toyo HO8's 225/70 R15C After 5 years there was minimal tread wear but the sidewalls began to crack, at $240 a tyre compared to $98. The rapids are give identical fuel economy, stability and performance to the Toyo's, usually tyres go out of date before they wear out.
Does the R16 etc. denote rim diameter, I ask because these tires are R16, but the rim says 15 inch ? Sorry that's wrong, went and had a look with a magnifying glass now 16 inch rim, dam eyesight.
-- Edited by iana on Monday 22nd of November 2021 12:11:42 PM
I can say definitely that light truck tires were preferred because the off road style tires 'always' ended their life by the carcass failing before they wore out. We learnt to just roll the wheel and look at it before we started work. 
