Sailun Tire Failure

neal10a wrote:
It is hard to comment on this without knowing the history of the tire. Every tire Manufacturer has had blow out-- some more frequently than others. Pot holes, road hazzards, exceeding speed rating, loading, alignment and other factors can mitigate a tires life. I have Salins that replaced Goodyear G rated tires that wore out after 60K miles. So far they are performing as well as the Goodyears after 10K miles. I drive under 65mph and they are not near over-loaded with tire pressure at 105PSI. No pot hole or road hazards so far. BTY trailer suspensions are the weak point between the truck and trailer.

2 years old . Close to 5K on them, always been inflated to 100 psi. I run pretty consistent at 65 mph. Left Las Vegas that morning for Kingman ,Az. 20 miles outside of Kingman is where it happened, after trying to miss 10,000 pot holes :( Pretty nasty road off ,and on all the way to Yuma .

Neither felt or heard if in fact it did blow out. IMO it did not. There has been mentioned curb damage, no hitting curbs, no scuffing against curbs ,etc. Plenty of bad roads though.

Nothing I was aware of in the road that I hit, other then all the pot holes that were pretty hard to avoid. When I seen it in my mirror I initially thought for a second it was a bearing, it actually looked like the trailer was on fire from the amount of smoke, but could see pieces of tire flying off. IMO ,and far from an expert , I think I had lost air from a leak, and the missing section of tire was the process of the tire coming apart

Possibly a pot hole could of cut it, and a sudden loss of air, and then started coming apart at the section of the damage. Not a scratch to the fifth wheel ,other then some small pieces of rubber stuck to it. Rim was undamaged.

Trailer was weighed partially loaded 12,740. Pin 2420. Loaded for this month long trip possibly 13,000, -13,200. 2700 on the pin. Far from overloaded for 4400 lb. rating . We could add a few hundred to those weights before near overloading.