Before our last camping trip, I did my usual pre-trip check on our trailer. I noticed that our tires were almost 5 years old! As I wrote back in 2020 in my article (When Should You Replace Your Trailer Tires?), I like to replace trailer tires every 3-4 years, depending on how much we drive and how worn out they are. Since we live and travel in the desert Southwest, often on two-lane roads dozens of miles from any town and lacking cell phone coverage, we need to be extra careful with our tires.
The tires had about 12,000 miles on them and only 5/32 of an inch of tread left. That’s way less than the new tread depth on these Goodyear Endurance trailer tires, which is 8/32 of an inch. Most states have a law that says tires need to be replaced when the tread depth is 2/32 of an inch. So, for this tire, it has 6/32 of an inch usable tire tread, which means it was about 50% worn out.
We replaced the tires before leaving on the trip.
I was inclined not to replace them before this trip, but Joyce recommended replacement.