CALandLIN wrote:
Horror stories. Lost both passenger side tires to a road gator going west on I-15 out of Las Vegas. Catastrophic failure on I-40 at nowhere NM. Steel valve stem was gone. Something must have flew-up and knocked it off. Lost the trailing driver side tire in downtown Rochester, NY caused by hitting a protruding manhole cover. Missed it with the lead tire but it ripped the whole side out of the trailing tire. City would not pay because they had warning signs posted. Lost a lead driver side tire on a dirt road in Manitoba. Got some sort of industrial steel cable thru the sidewall. Those are just some of the dramatic ones I remember.
At least 20 years running ST tires on 4 different TT's and a small fleet of both boxed and flat equipment trailers, most of them offshore made. There is not one failure I can not attribute to some sort of road hazard.
These over and over threads are nothing but forum spew.