THE PROBLEM OCCURRED ON AN 8X18 ENCLOSED WELLS CARGO MOTORCYCLE TRAILER. I LEFT FREDERICK, MD ON THE MORNING OF 7/29/06 HEADING TO MYRTLE BEACH, SC . WHEN I GOT INTO VA. [APPROX 45 MILES FROM FREDERICK] THE RF TRAILER TIRE BLEW. I PULLED INTO A SHOPPING CENTER PARKING LOT TO CHANGE IT AND NOTICED THAT THE RR TIRE WAS DEVELOPING A BULGE IN THE FIRST TREAD FROM THE OUTSIDE. I CHECKED THE OTHER TIRES AND THEY WERE OK. I REPLACED THESE 2 AND ARRIVED AT MYRTLE BEACH WITH NO FURTHER TIRE PROBLEMS. BECAUSE OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED GOING DOWN ,ON THE WAY BACK HOME ON 8/5/2006 ANY TIME I STOPPED I WOULD INSPECT THE TIRES. WHEN I STOPPED IN WILSON, NC I NOTICED THAT THE LR WAS DEVELOPING THE SAME BULGE IN THE TREAD AS THE OTHER TIRE WHICH DID NOT BLOW. I KEPT AN I ON THE TIRE AND SO DID MY DAUGHTER WHO WAS FOLLOWING BEHIND ME AND MADE IT BACK HOME TO FREDERICK WITHOUT IT BLOWING. THE TIRES ARE ST20575R15 GOODYEAR TRAILER TIRES. THE TIRES HAVE BEEN KEPT PROPERLY INFLATED TO 50 PSI BEFORE ANY USE. THERE IS A VERY SLOW LEAK IN THE LF TIRE BUT THIS IS NOT THE ONE THAT HAS DEVELOPED A PROBLEM YET. THE MOST WEIGHT THIS TRAILER HAS HAD IN IT IS 4 HARLEY'S WEIGHING APPROX 700 - 800 LBS EACH. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME I HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH THIS SAME SIZE AND MAKE TIRE. I HAVE ANOTHER TRAILER WHERE THE TIRE BLEW BECAUSE THE BELT SEPERATED AND IT WAS PARKED. *JB
2002 Wellco Trailer
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the tires. No safety recall has been issued.
What fails
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tires | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsTires
Filed Aug 9, 2006MD
1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.
Across model years
Worst on record: 2002| Year | Complaints | Recalls | Fires | Deaths | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 — this page | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
Reading this record
No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.
Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.
Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.