On Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 11:16:47 AM UTC-6, Patrick McMahon wrote:
A few items, the tires were considered in the purchase, I think 5 years old, pressure checked, sat on concrete patio stones with UV covered when not in heated storage. They were replaced as blown with 155/80/R13's to ensure I maintained a spare - which, will also be upgraded as we get to work with the ship.

The fenders were metal, did have the Cobra mudguard but did not have the wheel chock holder.

This is our most promising solution which would be an upgrade from the rounded metal fenders, and save us some cash toward neo wingtips - https://www.amazon.ca/Mudguard-Trail...omotive&sr=1-5

The trailer has been updated to LED lights, although my vehicle detected a fault which I could not immediately location (both side markers on both sides and all functions of the taillights worked). Now that I think about it, maybe the bulb for the license plate...

T8 - your math is bad, and your comment is insulting
Thanks Tom, but we'll be looking to replace both for less than the shipping of the one you have
Dan, 5J - seems like it, not much value on the juice:squeeze ratio
Thanks glidergeek, that's the kind of sense I'm aligned with

Sorry I asked.

Patrick, don't be sorry you asked. Your question gives us all in the soaring community a good opportunity to discuss and get cautioned about how important our trailer tires are, and to get a good advice based on the others' experience(s). I may have a Cobra trailer similar to your 1984, metal fenders), generally well maintained by previous owners. Goes beautifully behind my Mazda CX-5, manual gear. An incident I had with fenders was when one of them was hit by a tire debris on the expressway (saw it too late to dodge it). The fender got bent. An auto-body shop was able to fix it in a great way, and both fender got a nice new red paint. What I noticed, however, is that the paint gets hit by usual gravel and tiny stuff on the roads (have done thousands of miles across the US several times) and gets dented. I think I will put some temporary soft covers for next trips to protect them. Plastic fenders will be less trouble in that respect.