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The rear 3 of my 5 were NOT ok... beyond the danger and tieing up traffic, it wasn't worth it to save a little work. And yepper, I put them on with the impact and had them torqued at the tire store. This is my third MH, 2nd toy. And I'm an old fart too. I am reminded of blowing a rear tire on my Heavy Chevy one day in East Bumfork, TN. I had a spare but wasn't sure I could pick it up, let alone get the lugs off with my aging muscles and no air. So I fretted along for another 10 miles or so, and o'er yonder hill was a little old used tire store! Savvy dude had me going in 20 minutes. These days I live on a boat and the Toy is my storage locker. It looks decent (to me), and runs well but the roof and one wall sag, ergo I am loathe to throw money at it. But tars are tars.

Thought I'd follow up. I bought the 185 RA08s locally for $110. per, balanced, mounted. Look good, raised the rear end an inch or so, and gotta love the 65psi. I blew a rear to steel-spiking smithereens on the way to the tire store leaving me with just 5 questionable tires on the road with no spare, so I returned home, jacked the rig, got out my scuba tank-powered air impact wrench, and removed the offender and it's ancient partner ... off to tire store ... back home got two new mounted easy peasy ... back to tire store for the other two. One thing I noticed was that none of the tires were 185s and both sides had been rubbing together. Had the guys check my air lift bags and lines. There is a leak but they couldn't find it.

Metric valve stems! I'd have never thought of that. Thanks for the comments, esp the list. The age thing is a critical issue to be sure. That would give me a reason to re-purpose the Marathons. I'll go check the age. No need to even look at the others. All four of the dualies, actually all 5 including the flat spare are different! PO must have been buying them used. I love having new tires, it's the paying for them that's unpleasant.

I think I've read most of the tire talk. My new to me 90 Dolphin has a variety of tires aboard. Of the several rears is a LT 27 x 8.5 x 14R. The others are P somethings. I'm inclined to search for the truck tires since blowouts aren't my favorite thing. This is not my first RV. Anything I'm overlooking? Is the small difference in diameter a problem if they're all the same? The fronts are two decent Goodyear marathons ... STs. I know the drill here, but they ride and steer just fine, IMO. I'm a slow driver. Any compelling reason to toss them? Thx