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1Adam12
Explorer
Jul 14, 2014

2 separate blow outs on I-75 S/B in Georgia (Fifth Wheel)

Not if but when! We have been towing various configurations of travel trailers and fifth wheels for a long time coupled with different trucks and large SUV's. We have had one blow out in that time u...
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Dayle1
Explorer II
Jul 15, 2014
1Adam12 wrote:
Coming home from North Georgia we lost the first passenger side tire on the 5ER outside of Macon. A short time later the second tire blew on the same side just north of Valdosta.


Not that unusual for 2nd tire to fail. Two reasons, it was overloaded when 1st tire failed and it sustained internal damage from the 1st tire exploding (just like the trailer sustained damage).

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