New tire ? Thor windsport 35 m

[Garymagic]

Hi all. Time for new tires on my 2018 windsport 35 m. The Thor site says 235/80r 22.5g.
Rig not near me to get pic of tires. All the stores I call want to put 19.5 tires on it . Is that ok. And any reasonable priced replacement tires recommended. Thanks.

 

[ducksface]

Did you ask the store why 19.5?
Post a link to the thor site you used to ascertain tire size.

 

[16ACE27]

Hi all. Time for new tires on my 2018 windsport 35 m. The Thor site says 235/80r 22.5g.
Rig not near me to get pic of tires. All the stores I call want to put 19.5 tires on it . Is that ok. And any reasonable priced replacement tires recommended. Thanks.

If you have 22.5" tires and wheels why would any intelligent person want to purchase 19.5" tires AND WHEELS????

 

[16ACE27]

Hi all. Time for new tires on my 2018 windsport 35 m. The Thor site says 235/80r 22.5g.
Rig not near me to get pic of tires. All the stores I call want to put 19.5 tires on it . Is that ok. And any reasonable priced replacement tires recommended. Thanks.

Looks like you want to put EYES ON to be sure.

 

[Jimbo57]

Hi all. Time for new tires on my 2018 windsport 35 m. The Thor site says 235/80r 22.5g.
Rig not near me to get pic of tires. All the stores I call want to put 19.5 tires on it . Is that ok. And any reasonable priced replacement tires recommended. Thanks.

Remember all the store you called and stay away. I put in what you have per your details and shows a Class A doubt you have 19.5s on that but maybe that’s the biggest tire they handle

 

[ducksface]

It costs no money to take a sidewall picture of every type tire you own and keep it on your phone.
Might as well do your vin and plate while you're at it.

16 tire types at my home.
(Those t bird tires are from 1984 and they're bias ply nylon. I get really tired of the tire worries the tire worriers worry about.)

 

[SGilbert]

ONLY go to a truck tire dealer! Car tire dealers cannot handle what you have! Thy cannot lift, balance, or even align.

 

[Garymagic]

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Looks like you want to put EYES ON to be sure.

Sorry all. Thor website was wrong. Drove to rv and found 245/70r 19.5 . Whole different ballgame. Thanks . Any recommendations on reasonable brand.

 

[Lt Keefer]

ONLY go to a truck tire dealer! Car tire dealers cannot handle what you have! Thy cannot lift, balance, or even align.

Not entirely true. Discount Tire will do all but the alignment on motorhomes. See them all the time at my local store. I have used them for my last class c as well.

 

[SGilbert]

Not entirely true. Discount Tire will do all but the alignment on motorhomes. See them all the time at my local store. I have used them for my last class c as well.

C is different than A. C is on a van chassis

 

[ducksface]

19.5 can be done by anyone with two tire spoons let alone any bit of modern equipment.

 

[SGilbert]

19.5 can be done by anyone with two tire spoons let alone any bit of modern equipment.

Tell that to those that had their tires mounted in the parking lot and then had to go elsewhere to get them balanced and possibly a 3rd place for an alignment.

 

[ducksface]

I just told them.
Anyone can do it.
There's no magic and even a days worth of talent is far far enough.

If someone can't take their rv to their daily driver tire place and get it done there OR GET A REFERRAL FROM THEM, how helpless is that rv owner?

This elitist attitude of going solely to truck places is getting silly.
It's a tire.
Legitimate tire stores sell tires.
They'll say yes or they'll say no.

We don't get to say "don't go to bubba tire" because WE DON'T KNOW BUBBA TIRE.

But you all do a good job of scaring/scarring newbs.


If you all worry this much about your daily driver... carry on.
But
If you have simply magnified your tire fears and helped create a group psychosis by
ultiplying the weight and length of an rv...stop doing that.

It's
Just
tires

 

[16ACE27]

Discount Tire will do all but the alignment on motorhomes

Discount Tire Corporate will be happy to sell you tires for your motorhome but will not mount them.
Their web page specifically says "Our locations are not equipped to service, repair or replace the tires on heavy trucks or equipment" and many locations include RVs in that category, BUT:

Many locations will sell, mount and balance RV tires if their traffic allows it. It they are packed with car tires then they'll point to the policy and send you down the road.

 

[16ACE27]

Sorry all. Thor website was wrong. Drove to rv and found 245/70r 19.5 . Whole different ballgame. Thanks . Any recommendations on reasonable brand.

That's the cheaper option for the 22K chassis, both for Thor when they bought the chassis and for you when you need to replace the tires. That's why I said you needed to put "eyes on" as it could have been either.

 

[Lt Keefer]

C is different than A. C is on a van chassis

I'm not an idiot and Thor does sell class a's on stripped van chassis.

 

[SGilbert]

I'm not an idiot and Thor does sell class a's on stripped van chassis.

NEVER said you were! In fact, my Axis is on an E450 chassis!

My point, if you'll listen, is that full size Class As on a motorhome chassis, SHOULD be taken to a truck tire dealer that has experience with over the road trucks, and by similarity, full sice Class A motorhomes.

Passenger car tire dealers have little to no experience with the 'large' tires.

My intention, here, is not to start a fight; only to refer the OP, and others in need, to the preferred and easiest way to accomplish their needs. "Been there, Done that"!!!!

 

[ducksface]

Experience is on the machines.
There is no difference after a couple of days of training from mounting a wheelbarrow tire, a donks 24" rims, my kelsey wire wheels, a new raptors 37'" tires, 44" swampers on 10"wide 20"tall rims, or a relatively middlin' sized 19.5"x6" rv tire.

https://www.amazon.com/Rough-Country-One-Piece-Milled-Accents/dp/B086NJB1XB/

https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Rocker-24x12-6x5-5-51mm/dp/B0977QMGSG/r

1955-1964 Ford Thunderbird 14 INCH 14x5.5 4 Kelsey Hayes Wire Wheel Rim | C2SZ1007B | Genuine OEM

Removed from 1962 Thunderbird. 14X5-1/2 RIM. 5 LUG WITH A BOLT PATTERN OF 4.5 OR 114.3. 14 TIRE SIZE. FRONT SPACING. BACK SPACING. 5-1/2 WIDE BEAD TO BEAD.

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The bubba shop I use mounts and balances my 12" atv rims/tires on the same machines they use for semi truck 22" rims...even super sngles.

The balancing machine does the balancing decision.

A jack is a jack whether it's a lift or a hf 3ton $89 jack.

Except for a lack of want, ANY tire store, ANY time, any place can do it.

Dkoldman believes this or he'd carry a spare wheel and not just a spare tire.
All of you who carry no spare believe this.

There's no magic, no license, no specialty school, no finesse.

It's tires.

No one said:
Alignment machine
Beam bending
Siping
Lift kits.
So don't inject those.

Tires.
Mounted.

Exactly what is it you think a truck shop has that is different?

 

[SGilbert]

Thers no magic, no license, no specialty school, no finesse.

It's tires.

No one said
Alignment machine
Beam bending
Siping
Lift kits.

Tires.
Mounted.

Exactly what is it you think a truck shop has that is different?

I give up. if YOU'ALL want to take your pride-n-joy full size motorhome to a passenger tire dealer---have at it. I'll stick with those in the know!!

 

[ducksface]

I have a question for Beau and other older and experienced folk:

What ever happened to those balance machines that balanced the tire while mounted on the vehicle...essentially balancing that entire leg of the suspension?