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Tom Hoffman

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I am posting this here for general interest  I have posted it in the Trailer Sailors site as well.

Well, my day just went in the toilet. For some of you who don't know my story about my American (Sailboat), I bought her in Jan 2010 in Des Moines Ia after she had been in storage for some 24 years, the tires were shot, so because I live 110 miles away and did not plan to move her until Feb, I contacted a Tire Dealer that was only 2 miles away and he agreed to put new tires on the trailer which was buried in snow.

The job was completed in good time and I went and got the boat in Mid Feb during a break in the weather.

Today I find out from my mechanic who is doing a complete brake job on all four wheels and hubs that the tires that I was sold and that were mounted turned out to be TRAILER HOUSE TIRES.

He tells me that they have right on them NOT FOR HIGHWAY USE. These words were on the inside surface of the tire and cannot be seen from the exterior.

I thought I was buying 10 ply trailer tires for road use. I told him that I wanted good tires because I planned on towing the boat to sailing locations.

Right about now, I am feeling really ripped off. :mad: :mad:

Don't know what to do about it at this late date except replace them. I did just try and call him, but today they are closed.

 
They aren't what you wanted so they should take them off but we used to run them of our tri-axle backhoe trailer for the 18 yrs I worked there and never had a problem with them. Of course we were never pulled over by DOT of FHP either.
 
Does the boat trailer look like a house?  I think I would be having a serious discussion with that tire dealer about getting the proper tires installed. If he installed off-highway tires on a trailer clearly intended to be used on the highway, he has probably broken state and federal laws. He is a professional tire dealer and the legal presumption is he knows better, or at least knows enough that he should have made it clear to you that you were not getting highway-legal tires.
 

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