Greenball Transmaster vs Goodyear Marathon

[Drago]

I need to replaced all 4 tires on our trailer since I noticed some fine cracks an all of them. My two spares are have been stored in the barn and are dated two years newer than my 6 year old ones on the trailer. I can have just the tires (New Zealand made Marathons) replaced on the current rims at Discount Tire for $445 (Chinese like my spares). For $324 I can go down to Sam's Wholesale and pick up rims and tires from Greenball Transmaster.

Anyone ever heard of those? We only pull long hauls occasionally.

They are ST185/80R13

[ROLAND]

Drago... i've never heard of them... I've read some good things about Kendra Load star ST tires..... I looked for your size on etrailer.com and they have the kendra load star in your size with the rim for approx 115.00 per..... hope this helps.

[Drago]

Thanks for the input. It's really a pretty dumb thought - to try to save a few bucks on tires. If there ever was a weak link in the chain, it is the tires on the ground. The Marathons are most likely as good or better than no-name tires. I think I'll go ahead and have Discount Tire put new rubber (Goodyear Marathons) on my existing rims. I think it was $435 drive out.

Speaking of age, it's weird to look back at dates one did things.
We picked up the boat on 2/7/08
The date on serial# of boat looks like 7/07
The Yamaha motor date tag is 5/06
The EZ Loader trailer date tag is Jul 07
Original Marathon tires 10th & 12th week 2006 I guess they were on a slow boat from New Zealand
Two spare tires date indicate 2008 (Chinese)

I suppose 7 years on the Marathon tires before developing cracks is pretty good. They only began to show this Spring.
The only protection from the sunlight was the 303 Protectant I sprayed on twice a year.