Snowbird tire shredding today
DW and I were driving our mini MH today on I-75S, from Macon to I-10. Wall to wall snowbirds. We saw 4 or 5 trailers pulled over with blowouts. One was a horse trailer, one was a smallish utility/ ca...
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edatlanta wrote:
I check mine before I ever hook up even if I'm just driving around the block. Tires are something I absolutely do not ignore and they are replaced when they age out, which for me is no more than 5 years. Currently running my 5'er on 4 brand new G614's installed May 2013.
My brother in law thinks I'm crazy for replacing tires "with all that tread left". Of course he is the one who sent his wife off in their Suburban on a 2,000 mile trip a few years ago with the steel cord showing on one tire. "But it had plenty of tread and it was holding air".
I had 3 blowouts in one trip to SC earlier this year. Checked the tire pressure, good tread and no signs of weathering or cracking. What I didn't realize is that there is an age limit to these tires.
We bought the 5'r used and, as it turned out, those tires were 10 yrs old. Learned a tough lesson but we learned!
