need tire advice
Last week I had my first blowout. Nobody's fault but mine, I was going too fast for the tires (rated at 65), I was doing just shy of 75. Normally I drive up and down the West coast but this trip I...
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Tireman9 wrote:I agree with the industry, most blowouts are low pressure. I have had many new trucks with LT tire. My quality factor was "did the tire make full life without a failure. Goodyear tires never made it. Michelin would always make until about 5-6 years ago, then the side wall cracking started and all the other type of problems creped in There were quite a few years where I had to air up 2 - 3 LT tires just to make it into work. LT tires are not the answer. Better quality is. The HD truckers have is figured out. Use steering tires on the trailer. They didn't have to buy new rims and go up a few sizes in tires.MM49 wrote:
When there is a LT tire made in 225/75/R15E I'll look at them. Until the only misleading statements are "you should change to LT tires that don't exist.
MM49
By the way I've had two highspeed blowouts on LT tires. They are not the holy grail
No tire is fail-proof if it is run low on air. "High speed blowouts" are what you get when tires are run at highway speed and significantly under-inflated as seen in this tire.
MM49
