exploding tire
Well, I joined the blown tire crowd over the 4th holiday. I had just installed a TST monitoring system and within 120 miles, tire exploded. As the monitoring system was new, I was watching tire pre...
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With that TST system, I had just checked the monitor and all was well with pressure and temp. Within 5 minutes, could've been sooner, a tire blew. No warning from the system.
I got a signal from the sensor...about a half second after it blew. But that's not surprising, there was nothing to signal until the tire blew, dropping the psi to 0 instantly. With the system being new I kept constant attention to it, watching how the temps and psi rose.
My trailer had a metal plate in the wheel well above the tires causing zero damage in that area. Having seen various pictures of blown tires with electrical wires and water lines hanging down I was happy that someone had the sense to plate it up there.
Or maybe they knew something????
