Blowing tires on 5th wheel
First I apologize if this subject has been cover in the past. I did a search and went back a bit and didn't see anything fairly recent I'm starting to get very frustrated and its beginning to ruin ...
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I started pulling a fifth wheel in 1996 and I had the same problem you are having. I had the most problems with Goodyear Marathon St tires. Then I went to Cooper truck tires load range E. I still blew tires. I tried Maxxis's and had one of these fail on me.
I was beginning to wonder what I was doing wrong as I religiously looked after my tires and kept everything up to spec as you said you do. I had people telling me I was driving too fast and I was underinflating or over overinflating etc.
Along about, 2004, I was at the Carriage factory with my rig to have a wheel well rebuilt from a tire blow out. A customer at the factory told me about Michelin XPS Rib tires. I put them on and my tire problems totally disappeared. I am now on my second set of these tires.
I put 5000 to 8000 miles a year on these Michelin tires in the heat of summer. They are expensive to buy (over $200 a tire), but, for me, it is money well spent. Now I venture out without worrying when the next tire will fail. They just don't fail. They keep going and going.
They make these tires in the 235/85 R16 size.
I was beginning to wonder what I was doing wrong as I religiously looked after my tires and kept everything up to spec as you said you do. I had people telling me I was driving too fast and I was underinflating or over overinflating etc.
Along about, 2004, I was at the Carriage factory with my rig to have a wheel well rebuilt from a tire blow out. A customer at the factory told me about Michelin XPS Rib tires. I put them on and my tire problems totally disappeared. I am now on my second set of these tires.
I put 5000 to 8000 miles a year on these Michelin tires in the heat of summer. They are expensive to buy (over $200 a tire), but, for me, it is money well spent. Now I venture out without worrying when the next tire will fail. They just don't fail. They keep going and going.
They make these tires in the 235/85 R16 size.
