No, most of our vacation gear (luggage, etc.) was in the bed of the
truck. The boat had the trolling motor (attached), life jackets,
rope, fishing poles, bait box, the anchor, fish finder, the lights for
night boating, fishing net - stuff like that. Mostly lighter stuff
except the anchor and trolling motor. Oh - and from the 2nd blow-out
on, it carried the three 3 old 14" tires (or what was left of
them). :-S

The sticker on the new tires said "capacity 1800 lb" - I assume that's
per tire, so a total weight, boat/motor/trailer, of 3600 lb.?




On Aug 23, 4:05 pm, dlzc wrote:
On Aug 23, 6:05 am, "M. Baker" wrote:

We just bought a 2001 Lund Mr. Pike a couple weeks
ago. We went on vacation last week, and of course
had to take the boat with us. About 40 miles from
home, the driver's side trailer tire blew out while on
the freeway going almost 70mph. Then, about 100
miles later, the OTHER trailer tire blew out - this
time we were only going 60mph, as we were
paranoid after the first blow-out.

There is another point here. Yes, the tires could be underinflated.
Yes they could be undersized for the weight of the boat and trailer (I
get about 1115 pounds for the boat). Yes, you could have picked up
nails in both tires, short enough to not (yet) affect the tires on the
towing vehicle, but long enough to lose tire pressure on the trailer
and blowout.

When you say "had to take the boat with you", did you stuff it full of
"bringalongs" like a U-haul? There are weight limits on tires...

David A. Smith