My luck ran out.

AUWing wrote:

Good response and I believe the way the OP intended his experience to be taken. One tire let loose and all were replaced - far more responsible then too many others.

Lighten up on the guy - haven't you heard that confession is good for the soul.

Great post. The guy goes 8 years with no problem with any of his tires. Then one goes POP, and he replaces them all. And someone calls him irresponsible? And risking personal injury or public lives? If flat tires or blow outs are so dangerous, any tire that has them should be outlawed. A blow out may be an inconvenience. But a risk to the public? Get over it.

I am sure the OP wasn't in need of anyones approval. Nice to know that Towmaster tires can go seven years without problem.

My goodyear spare blew apart a few weeks ago sitting on the side of our horse trailer.. Yes Spare, Yes - sitting still.. Yes it was old ;)

Just sharing my wisdom as well... lol

I don't know, I didn't meant to come down on him, if I did, I apologize. I remember when I lost the tread on my Goodyear G614 and reported it...I was asked how much my 5er weighed, was I under inflated, over inflated and on and on...I was just posting to let everyone know what happened with the G614....and I turned around and put the same tire back on ...

I was impressed the OP ran as long as he did on the Tow Masters, heck, I'd probably bought some more of them going by his experience with them..

Vet Man wrote:
You took a chance of injuring your family or someone else, then had to buy the tires anyway. I would not be proud to post that story. I bet your family would have stayed home if they knew the chance you were taking with them.

Omg is everyone an authority on everything.Give the op a break.He did what almost everyone does and posted about it.Big deal.Nothing did happen.He got new tires and end of story.He and anyone else could have a majir blowout at anytime with any tire and the outcome could be horrible.Geeze.....

ol Bombero-JC wrote:

Our Place wrote:

I had a tire come apart on my class A once and it was 20 months old, inside dual tore the hell out of everything including the gas line to the fridge!

Off-topic, just curiosity: What was the tire brand?.:@

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I think they were Hankook... been a few years ago now. They took care of the tire but not the RV. They said it was "road hazard" but tire guy said it was sidewall failure, who knows?? Insurance fixed RV about $2200 in repairs, lucky no fire!

My luck ran out at four years on the original DURO bias ply.
Then ran out again in four years with Denman Express radials.
Maybe the MAXXIS will go a little longer...

Ricky,

Must say , I'm a little bit surprised at the "piling on"
that took place on the first page of the responses. One of the
strengths of this forum seems to be... admissions of guilt
warts and all, and then hear tales of similar woes...

Before the era of forum Solomons, I use to gauge my TT tire life
based on remaining tread... kind of grew up that way... I had
no idea that the sidewall life expectancy was the limiting factor...
just didn't. I ran my oem issue tires about 9 years before I changed
them out...still had good tread left.

Here's a blast from the past... growing up, my Dad would change out
re-treads as he saw fit, one at a time, towed a 22 foot inboard wood
boat and a load of kids in the bed of a plywood covered Ford Ranger.
He replaced the tires with re-treads... based on the responses to this
thread he should have been imprisoned for child endangerment.

you are forgiven... drive on.

Charles

Vet Man wrote:
You took a chance of injuring your family or someone else, then had to buy the tires anyway. I would not be proud to post that story. I bet your family would have stayed home if they knew the chance you were taking with them.

I totally disagree about putting the family in danger. The tire blows out. You pull the trailer to a stop. End of story. It's not like you had a blowout on a curve on a steering axle and rolled your truck because of it. Nobody was riding in the trailer. The tire went flat and the other tire held it up until he stopped. It wasn't on a drive axle or a steering axle how dangerous could it be? Lots of people have flats on trailer trailers and drive for miles not knowing about...Give the guy a break!!

B.O.

cdlaine wrote:
Ricky,

Must say , I'm a little bit surprised at the "piling on"
that took place on the first page of the responses. One of the
strengths of this forum seems to be... admissions of guilt
warts and all, and then hear tales of similar woes...

Before the era of forum Solomons, I use to gauge my TT tire life
based on remaining tread... kind of grew up that way... I had
no idea that the sidewall life expectancy was the limiting factor...
just didn't. I ran my oem issue tires about 9 years before I changed
them out...still had good tread left.

Here's a blast from the past... growing up, my Dad would change out
re-treads as he saw fit, one at a time, towed a 22 foot inboard wood
boat and a load of kids in the bed of a plywood covered Ford Ranger.
He replaced the tires with re-treads... based on the responses to this
thread he should have been imprisoned for child endangerment.

you are forgiven... drive on.

Charles

Then I and my dad would have joined your dad in jail...Towed a Scotty with an old Chevy pick up truck, hooked to the back of the Scotty was his 14' V bottom boat..seeing as how it was a regular cab pick up, my dad, mom and sister set in the cab and my brother and I set in the bed of the truck (no topper), towed that combo for several years all through the mountains of WV..nothing every happened....

OP doesn't have to ask for forgiveness, don't recollect he did, I like the way it goes from one extreme of chastisement to the other on these forums, I've been on both sides of them.

The G-614 tire that threw it's tread on me looked brand new, no tread wear at all after 4 yrs...so a lot of people are fooled by that one.

Sounds to me like he made a good choice on his new tires...

Seriously, I guess those of us who made a bad decision in others eyes are out numbered here.
I truely hope someone sees this post, gets past the negativity and has an ah ha moment realizing they evaluate not only the tread, but the age of the tires.
I have a significant commute so my car tires rarely last past 2 years, hence I've never dealt with sidewall issues. I have read many tales like this as well as I am aware of the DOT required manufacture date.
Many years back I bought a boat and trailer which had the original tires was 10 years old with hardly any wear and only minor checking on the sidewalls. I sold it 2 years later with the same tires.
Oops, I promise to say my Hail Mary's tonight.