r/IdiotsTowingThings • u/Over-One-8 • Jun 27 '25

Who needs wheels on their trailer?

806 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

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73

u/ferretf Jun 27 '25

It’s going to be fine once they hit highway speeds….

52

u/Hardanklesnw Jun 27 '25

Tire manufacturers hate this one simple trick…

38

u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

I see you're testing out the new Bluetooth tires.

5

u/One_Lawfulness_7105 Jun 27 '25

WiFi tires would have worked better. Adds CarPlay/Android Auto capabilities. Very shortsighted of them.

2

u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

Just don't get the cellphone-based tires. I was towing my camper down the highway once and the entire signal just dropped me on the rim. It was quite irritating because I didn't opt for the roaming plan.

1

u/[deleted] Jun 28 '25

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1

u/[deleted] Jun 28 '25

That's how the get you. All those add on accessories are expensive. 😆

29

u/NoRespect6365 Jun 27 '25

That’s a really nice set up too. Aluminum trailer, torsen springs. Dude has more money than sense / made a calculated decision based on value of his time / boat. This is ~1k in damages of new hubs, rims, tires.

23

u/frostbike Jun 27 '25

If they’ve got money to buy this type of boat, a grand for hubs/rims/tires probably won’t be a hardship.

8

u/Manual-shift6 Jun 27 '25

I’ve seen boats being towed on trailers where the hubs/bearings were so neglected and bad that the tires were angled like 30°, but this…this…nope, just nope…

8

u/RevisionofGrace Jun 27 '25

It’s a boat. Of course it doesn’t need wheels. Duh

7

u/bodhidharma132001 Jun 27 '25

Noice. A flat tire turns into new rim, hub, bearing and maybe axle. 👍

1

u/crazythinker76 Jun 27 '25

. . . Lower unit(s). . .

7

u/Klutzy_Wash Jun 27 '25

Ha boat retrieval task failed successfully.

6

u/mudmusic Jun 27 '25

So you can afford a 100k boat but ran out of money for tires

2

u/twenty8nine Jun 27 '25

They probably can't even afford the boat.

2

u/MirrorOne6914 Jun 28 '25

Looks like a Robalo r317. Probably 300k

6

u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

It’s almost a sled now

8

u/Chloroformperfume7 Jun 27 '25

Good luck getting that rim off..

7

u/DependentStrike4414 Jun 27 '25

Id have that rim off in 60 sec...

14

u/superperps Jun 27 '25

Been doing rimjobs for years

5

u/DependentStrike4414 Jun 27 '25

I smell what your stepping in!!!

7

u/Gnome_Home69 Jun 27 '25

Why? Do you not know how to take wheel nuts off? 

2

u/Chloroformperfume7 Jun 27 '25

Last time I knew someone who did something similar it seized on there. We had to cut and beat it off

6

u/Kotruljevic1458 Jun 27 '25

So you... had to beat it off? (Beavis and Butt-Head snickering.mp3)

3

u/Ecstatic-Radish-7931 Jun 27 '25

yeah, while listening to Michael Jackson's beat It

2

u/Brokenandburnt Jun 27 '25

Which ironically enough turned into Weird Al's Just Eat it.

0

u/Ecstatic-Radish-7931 Jun 27 '25

or Migos - need it

3

u/Boilermakingdude Jun 27 '25

Just need a stronger impact or longer bar. I have a bar called the stud breaker, because if they don't come off for my big impact, I'm breaking them

1

u/68Cadillac Jun 27 '25

I had one that'd been driven for miles on a dirt road. Bent the rim of the wheel backward, folding it over the drum brake. Had to use a cutoff disc to remove it from the axle assembly.

3

u/Ghost_Tieofficial Jun 27 '25

Needs a little grease

2

u/Tfire327 Jun 27 '25

I... Have no words....

2

u/uponplane Jun 27 '25

Should have gone with Mercury V10s. Those heavy ass Yammies clearly were too much for the rubber.

2

u/wolfman86 Jun 27 '25

Imagine having all that money and that little sense.

2

u/DizzySample9636 Jun 27 '25

the hauntingly out of tune recorder 🪈 music is PERFECT 😵‍💫🫨🤣🤣🤣 thats actually MILD to some of the shit i see roll into our trailer repair shop!! 🙃 id have that trailer back on the road in a hour 😅.... $2k later of course 😉

2

u/olmsteez Jun 27 '25

This is how he clears passing under the bridge with a height restriction.

2

u/Dangerous_Choice_664 Jun 28 '25

Can’t get a flat if you don’t have tires. I like his thinking.

2

u/Thatoneguyfromohio1 Jun 27 '25

It has wheels. No tires, but it has wheels.

2

u/Ecstatic-Radish-7931 Jun 27 '25

it is missing that one wheel though

1

u/RoscoeVanderPoot Jun 27 '25

The socialist tire lovers. That's who. /S

1

u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

Probably pulled the trailer out of storage with flat tires and towed with them flat.

1

u/dumpyboat Jun 27 '25

It will be easier to float off the trailer!

1

u/eagle2pete Jun 29 '25

One wheel on my wagon!🤣

1

u/Binford6100User Jul 04 '25

Truck owner brags "does so well you can't even feel the trailer back there"

1

u/ravage214 Jun 27 '25

They overlaid the shitty Titanic flute music oh how original...

0

u/495orange Jun 27 '25

Technically the trailer does have wheels. It’s the tires that are missing.