Recent blowout - the good and the bad
So, had a blowout last week, first trip with the new fiver. Forth blowout in almost 30 yrs towing. Anyway, a few thoughts. The Bad: 1. Clearly the tire failure 2. Limited shoulder, stopped on...
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2oldman wrote:
Body damage will be directly proportional to how fast you're going. My one and only tire failure while driving occurred at under 40mph. I was very lucky. Only the tire was destroyed.
My one full-on tire failure was on I-17, heading north. I noticed that I was suddenly pulling harder than it should be up a very slight grade and decided to pull over. Tread was broken and wrapped around the axle, but carcass was intact. (That's also the day that I found that a Harbor Freight 6T bottle jack wouldn't lift a single axle and I had to use my truck's jack to lift the trailer.) Fortunately, no damage since I'd slowed a bit for the grade and the tread more-or-less rolled off the carcass before breaking. Had to cut part of the tread away to get the rim off, though. Hit a tire shop a few miles down the road and got a new tire. This was in 2nd year of FW ownership, with < 2,000 total miles, including delivery from the OR Komfort factory.
Lyle
