Taskmaster ST235/75R15 Radial Off-Road Tire w/ 15" Vesper White Mod Wheel - 6 on 5-1/2 - LR D

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Hello, everybody. This is Jeff of etrailer.com. Today we're gonna take a look at this task master ST 23575R15 radio off-road tire in a load range D and it's mounted and balanced on the 15 inch Vesper white modular wheel. It has a six on five and a half inch bolt pattern. Now this is a balanced tire wheel assembly, which is ideal for trailers, off-roading on mud or other uneven terrain. And it can also be used on highways and other paved roads.

The way to tell that it's balanced, you'll be able to see that there is a weight installed in the rim or the wheel itself. Now, I did want to talk about the tread. They do use a nice deep, rugged tread on this tire. It has a tread depth of about 1830 seconds of an inch. So it's very deep tread.

This will help channel mud and water away from the tire to give you improved traction during any wet, snowy or icy conditions, or even in any muddy conditions. Also, another feature I wanna mention is about the shoulder on this. If you look on the shoulder it has this raised rubber design and it looks nice but it's also designed on there to protect it from any damage cause that shoulder area of a tire right along here, that is where most of the heat builds up in the tire. So that is the most susceptible to damage. So what they've actually done is they've built up with this rubber design, a thicker rubber area there to help prevent any damage to that area.

Now this is a radio ply tire which means it's constructed with double steel belts, double polyester ply for a nice long life. They do use a nylon tread firming belt overlay around the tire to help prevent tread separation. And this is an ST tire which stands for special trailer tire. It has sturdy sidewalls so they can handle heavy loads. And it is created specifically for trailers, it's not intended for use on other vehicles.

The wheel itself, it is a nice sturdy steel wheel. Has the modular design and when we say modular design, that's the one that has these round holes that go all the way around the wheel. This steel uses a wide acrylic enamel finish on it to resist chipping and other damage better than the powder coat finishes. And that finish is applied after a zinc phosphate pretreatment and it'll cover an e-coat primer layer. This will give you excellent corrosion resistance with a salt spray rating of more than a thousand hours. Now on this assembly, the tire is match mounted and balanced to the wheel for ride comfort and durability and match mounting of tires and wheels. That's a process in which the tire is installation position onto the wheel is specifically selected to minimize final force of imbalance. The method to match mounting is they align the tire's lightest spot, which is usually a dot on the tire with the wheels heaviest spot, which most of the time is the valve stem. On some alloy wheels, they'll put an actual marking on it and that's to eliminate most of the radial force that can cause tire and suspension wear. Then what they do after it's match mounted, then they'll do the final balancing by applying weights to specific spots. You can see right here on the front, there's a weight here. And if I spin it around, you can see there's a weight right down here. When they put that on, that'll give or eliminate any chance of uneven wear or vibration. Now this assembly does come with a two year platinum plus warranty, which includes emergency tire change service and other benefits. The assembly does meet DOT, department of transportation standards and it will exceed federal motor vehicle safety standards. A few specs on this. Diameter on just the wheel itself is 15 inches. A width on just the wheel, six inches wide. The wheel does have a bolt pattern of six on five and a half inches. And if you wanna measure that on a wheel it's an even number of lugs, like in this case six. It's pretty easy because the lug holes you can see go directly across from each other. So if you put a ruler on that, measure from the center of one hole directly across to the center of the hole right across from it, it'll measure five and a half inches. So that means it's a six lug five and a half inch bolt pattern. This does use a wheel lug size of a half inch by 20 and the weight capacity on just the wheel is 2,835 pounds. Last thing I wanna mention here is the pilot hole diameter. That's this large hole here on the wheel, goes over the hub on your trailer. Diameter of this opening is 4.25 inches. And also if you, this wheel does not come with a center cap, if you do want a center cap, we do sell those separate on a website and you do wanna make sure to purchase the center cap that'll have the diameter of this pilot hole, which is 4.25 inches. Cause when you install your center cap, it'll go from the rear through this hole when you go install this. Now the tire size. Tire size will be stamped on the side well right here. ST for special trailer. 23575R15, the R stands for a radio design tire. Now the section width on this tire is 9.3 inches. Overall diameter from the very bottom to the very top when it's inflated, it's gonna be 28.9 inches. And this tire is a load range D, which means it's an eight ply rated tire. Has a maximum load capacity of 2,910 pounds at 65 PSI. And one of the last things I do wanna mention on the tire, it does have a speed rating on it now and the label the speed rating on the tire by the letter designation and where you'll usually find that is right after the tire size we went over. You'll see two numbers which is the load index and then there's a letter N. The speed rating N will signify that this is a 87 mile per hour speed rating. But that should do it for the review on the task master ST 23575R15 radial off-road tire in a load range D mounted and balanced on a 15 inch Vesper white modular wheel with a six on five and half inch bolt pattern..