Radial tire with automotive-grade tread has a ply rating of 6 and a 1,870-lb max load at 65 psi. 14" x 6" Steel trailer wheel has a 5 on 4-1/2 bolt pattern and an acrylic enamel finish for better damage resistance than powder coat finishes.
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Platinum Plus Warranty with Roadside Assistance
This tire-and-wheel assembly comes with a Platinum Plus warranty that includes complimentary roadside assistance for 2 years. If your trailer has a flat tire, call the help line and a technician will come change out the flat tire with your existing inflated spare tire. The service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition to the roadside assistance, this warranty also includes other benefits and services.
Durable Acrylic Enamel Finish
The wheel on this assembly has a durable acrylic enamel finish on the front. The finish is applied after the wheel goes through an environmentally safe zinc phosphate pre-treatment and is coated with an e-coat primer layer. Compared to powder coat finishes, this finish resists getting chipped from flying road debris or scraped from hitting a curb for a longer period of time. These acrylic enamel wheels performed for more than 1,000 hours in salt spray tests.
The stud holes on this steel wheel are beveled to ensure that the wheel stays tight against your trailer hub. This also eliminates the need to constantly retorque the lug nuts.
Unlike standard trailer tire tread, which has solid, continuous ribs, the automotive-grade tread on these Provider radials has ribs with breaks. These breaks allow water to run off to the sides. The Provider tread also has sipes. Siping is a process in which thin grooves (or sipes) are cut into the rubber of the tire. The grooves channel water away from the tread so that the tire makes better contact with the road. Both of these features greatly improve traction during wet, snowy, or icy conditions.
Provider radials are constructed with double polyester cords and double steel belts for increased durability and endurance. A protective layer of nylon is wrapped around the steel belts to help prevent tread separation. Provider radials are bake tested - a process usually reserved for automotive tires - to ensure that the rubber holds up over time.
In an ideal world, tire-and-wheel assemblies would be perfectly round and even throughout. Unfortunately tires and wheels have imperfections that often cause vibrations, resulting in a rough ride and wear and tear on the assemblies, as well as on the rest of your trailer's running gear. Taskmaster helps to solve this problem by match mounting and balancing their assemblies so they're ready to roll when they reach your door.
To do this, Taskmaster uses a laser-guided machine to locate the heavy and light spots of each assembly. They then align the assembly so that lightest part of the tire is near the heaviest part of the wheel. The assembly is then rotated at high speeds to pinpoint the optimal place to apply weights to further balance the tire.
Don't delay your adventures by having to take your trailer to the shop for new tires. Start rolling as soon as possible with easy-to-install, fully balanced tire-and-wheel assemblies from Taskmaster.
Radial Tires vs. Bias Ply Tires
The cords on this radial ply tire are positioned at a 90-degree angle to the direction of travel so that they lay across the width of the tire from wheel lip to wheel lip. This construction prevents the cords from rubbing against one another when the tire flexes, unlike the cords on a bias ply tire. As a result, radial tires have less rolling resistance, which leads to a longer tread life and improved steering.
Determining the Bolt Pattern
The first number in the bolt pattern is the number of bolt holes. The second number denotes the diameter, in inches, of the circle on which the bolt holes sit.
To determine the bolt-circle diameter on wheels with an odd number of bolt holes, measure from the center of any bolt hole to the point halfway between the two bolt holes directly across from the first. (Example: "5 on 4-1/2" means 5 bolt holes with 4-1/2" measured to a point halfway between the opposite bolt holes.)
On wheels with an even number of bolt holes, measure from the center of one bolt hole to the center of the hole directly across from it. (Example: "8 on 6-1/2" means 8 bolt holes with 6-1/2" from the center of one hole to the center of another on the opposite side.)
Measuring the distance from the center of one bolt hole on the wheel to the center of a bolt hole right next to it can also help to determine the bolt pattern.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hello everybody, this is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today, we're gonna take a look at this Taskmaster Provider ST215/75R14 radial trailer tire in a low range C mounted on a 14 inch Vesper silver modular steel trailer wheel with the 5 on 4-1/2 inch bolt pattern. Now, this tire and wheel assembly is ideal for stock trailers, utility trailers, and even campers. Now on this assembly, the tire is match mounted and balanced to the wheel for ride comfort and durability. And the match mounting on tires and wheels is a process in which the tire's installation position on the wheel is specifically selected to help minimize final force of imbalance. The method of match mounting is they line the tire's lightest spot onto the wheel's heaviest spot, and that's to eliminate most of the radial force that can cause tire and suspension wear.
Then they do the final balancing by applying weights to specific spots on the front and on the back of the wheel to eliminate any chance of uneven wear or vibration. So if you notice on the front, you'll see the weight right down here. And if we spin it around the back, you'll notice the weight right up here. So once that's all done, this is completely match mounted and balanced. The wheel, it is a steel wheel and you can see it has a modular design.
Modular design is the one that has the round holes all the way around it. It is sturdy and corrosion resistant. They do use a silver acrylic enamel finish to resist chipping and other damage, better than your powder coat finishes. The finish is applied after a zinc phosphate pre-treatment and then covers an e-coat primary layer, gives excellent corrosion resistance, has a salt spray rating of more than 1,000 hours, and the dimensions on the wheel, the diameter is 14 inches, the width on the wheel is six inches wide. The bolt pattern this wheel has is a 5 on 4-1/2 inch bolt pattern.
And if we we inchesre to measure that on a wheel that's an odd number of lugs, like in this case five, the way you'll do it is pick any hole like this one and then you'll measure across to either one of these holes. But when you measure, it's from the center of the starting hole to the furthest edge of whichever hole you measure to. So on this one, it'll measure 4-1/2 inches, so that means it's a 5 on 4-1/2 inch bolt pattern. Does use a wheel lug size of a half inch by 20 and the weight capacity on just the wheel is 2,200 pounds. If you notice, there is no center cap.
If you do want a center cap, we do sell those separately. You do wanna get one that'll have the same diameter as this pilot hole here, which is 3.27 inches. And that's because your center cap will install through the hole. The tire is a radial tire. It is constructed with double steel belts, double polyester cords for a nice long life. It's great for highway use and they do use a nylon tread-firming belt overlay to help prevent tread separation. And the tire is an ST tire, which stands for Special Trailer Tire, has the sturdy sidewall so they can handle heavy loads and it is created specifically for trailers. It's not intended for use on any other vehicles. The tire size, which will be stamped on the sidewall, ST for Special Trailer 215/75R14, the R means that it's a radial tire. Section width 8.5 inches. Overall diameter from the bottom to the top when it's inflated is 26.7. And this tire is a load range C, means it has a six-ply rating, and the maximum load capacity is 1,870 pounds at 50 PSI. And this tire also has a speed rating on it and they stamp that on the sidewall, but it is in a letter designation and where you'll find it is right after the tire size, you'll see two numbers for the load index and then the letter M for the speed rating. That means it's 81 miles per hour speed rating. This whole assembly does meet the DOT, Department of Transportation specifications, and exceeds your federal motor vehicle safety standards. And this does come with a two-year Platinum Plus warranty to include emergency tire change service and other benefits. But that's gonna do it for a look at this Taskmaster Provider ST215/75R14 radial trailer tire in a load range C mounted on the 14 inch Vesper silver modular steel trailer wheel.
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