Near tragic event!!

BobsYourUncle wrote:
It's amazing what goes on back there on the trailer without any thumps, bumps, or vibration.

I lost a wheel on a loaded car trailer once. I was slowing down for a highway traffic light and the wheel passed me! My first thought was OMG, somebody lost a wheel until I looked at my trailer and realized it was me. The wheel went through a red light, right between 2 cars, did a lane change and passed a car before changing lanes again and running off into the ditch without hitting anything! Amazing and I was very lucky.
I felt absolutely nothing and the trailer felt normal.

I've had 3 very severely shredded trailer tires, again without feeling a thing. One of them totaled my TT with steel belt damage and I didn't notice until I saw smoke in my mirror. And it was a single axle 69 Prowler. Should have felt something with a single axle, but nope! I was towing with a dually. Didn't feel a thing.

So yeah, I can easily see how you never noticed the missing wheel.

TPMS is king! We should all have it.

Best advice right there , TPMS system. We see some blowing it off as not necessary . Have one incident like that ,and it will make a believer out of you.

Have always checked torque , air pressure etc, but until I had a tire go flat ,and run it until it was ruined , and saw it smoking in my mirror did it make a believer out of me . Had I had a TPMS, most likely I would have been able to pull over safely somewhere ,and taken care of it. Unfortunately I had to pull over where I really didn't want to on a busy highway, and managed to get down off the road, but was not a very good spot. I have TPMS now !!!!