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Tire with automotive-grade tread has a 10-ply rating and a 3,520-lb max load at 80 psi. Acrylic enamel finish resists damage. Complimentary roadside assistance included. Assembly is match mounted and balanced providing longevity and a smooth ride.
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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 ply tires are designed for trailers that are towed on the highway. The cords on a radial 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 and heat buildup, which leads to a longer tread life and improved steering at higher speeds.
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 ST235/80R16 Radial Trailer Tire in a Load Range E, mounted on this 16 inch Vesper White Spoke Steel Trailer Wheel with the 8 on 6 1/2 inch bolt pattern. Now, this tire and wheel assembly is ideal for stock trailers, utility trailers, and campers. On this assembly, the tire is match mounted and balanced to the wheel for ride comfort and durability, and match mounting of the tires and wheels, that's a process in which the tire's installation position on the wheel is specifically selected to minimize the final force of imbalance, meaning the amount of weight that's used to balance it. The method of match mounting is to align the tire's lightest spot with the wheel's heaviest spot to eliminate most of the radial force that can cause tire and suspension wear. Then they do the final balancing, and that's 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.
And just to show you, on this one, you can see there's the weight on the front, and if we spin it around, here's your weight on the back, so that means this tire and wheel is fully balanced and match mounted. The wheel on this, it is a steel wheel, has the spoke design, it's very sturdy and corrosion resistant. They do use a white acrylic enamel finish to resist chipping and other damage better than your powder coat finishes. Basically, this finish is applied after a zinc phosphate pre-treatment, and then it covers an e-coat primer layer, gives you excellent corrosion resistance with a salt spray rating of more than 1,000 hours. The lug nut holes where your lug nuts go, these are beveled stud holes, they help keep your wheel securely in place on the trailer hub, eliminates the need for constant re-tightening of your lug nuts.
Now, the wheel itself, the dimensions on it, the diameter of the wheel is 16 inches, the width on just the wheel, six inches wide, and the wheel does have a bolt pattern of 8 on 6 1/2 inches. And if we wanna measure that bolt pattern, the way to do it on the wheel that's an even number of lugs, it's pretty easy, because the lug holes are directly across from each other. So you just pick any hole, let's say this one, measure from the center of that hole directly across to the center of the one right across from it. On this one it'll measure 6 1/2 inches, so that means this is an 8 lugs, 6 1/2 inch bolt pattern. The wheel lug size this uses is either a 1/2 inch by 20 or 9/16 by 18, and the weight capacity on just the wheel is 3,860 pounds.
Now, if you noticed, this does not come with a center cap. If you do want a center cap, we do sell those separately on our website. You do wanna make sure to get your center cap that'll match this pilot hole diameter, and it's 5.12 inches, 'cause when you install your center cap, it will go through this center hole. Now, the tire on this 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 around the tire to help prevent tread separation.
This is an ST tire, which means it's a special trailer tire, has the sturdy sidewall, so it can handle heavy loads, and it is created specifically for trailers, it's not intended for use on other vehicles. The tire size, which will be stamped on the sidewall, ST for special trailer, 235/80R16, R means it's a radial tire. Section width on this, 9.3 inches, overall diameter when it's inflated is 30.8 inches, and this is a Load Range E, which means it's a 10-ply rated tire, so it has a maximum load capacity of 3,520 pounds at 80 psi. Now, last thing I do wanna mention is this tire does come with a speed rating, most all the new trailer tires come with a speed rating now, and they stamp that on the sidewall, and it's by a letter designation. And where that usually is is right after the tire size we just went over, you'll see two numbers for the load index, and then the letter M at the end of that. Speed rating M will mean this has an 81 mile per hour speed rating. Now, this assembly does meet the DOT, Department of Transportation specifications, will exceed your Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, and this does come with a two-year platinum plus warranty, which includes emergency tire change service and other benefits. But that's gonna do it for the review on this Taskmaster Provider ST235/80R16 Radial Trailer Tire in a Load Range E on a 16 inch Vesper White Spoke Steel Trailer Wheel with the 8 on 6 1/2 inch bolt pattern.
Looks great! Since it's my spare, hopefully I'll never use it.
Etrailer has been my supplier for hitches, snow chains and now wheels with pre-mounted tires. Excellent service never a problem.
I think Amy & company are top notch! Great communication, fast delivery, fits & looks great! I will take the pop up out on her maiden voyage & keep you posted! Thanks a bunch!
The trailer tire and wheel combination look great and fit perfectly. Packaging was great, fast shipping and the company is easy to deal with, very helpful as well.
I bought an older Jayco camper with the original wheels and tires probably about 15 years old. Ended up buying these wheel/tire combos for both sides and the spare. They look great and are radials so should not have to worry about them for a long time.
After approximately 25 hours of highway and gravel roads these radial tires definitely ride and track better than bias ply tires.
etrailer's team came through in the clutch. Original tires were on back order and I was leaving for Canada in just a few days. So I contacted them and opted for a slightly larger version of the same tire. They got them out the same day and arrived in time for my much anticipated fishing trip. Thanks again.
Easy to buy the right tire and rim. Unbelievable fast shipping. Thanks for the great service.
They were exactly what we ordered and what we needed.
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Thomas
5/27/2024
worked out perfectly for my hauling needs