Tire flat spot
Looking for some quick advice. We're on a trip and I just noticed at a gas stop we have a large flat spot on one of our 5th wheel tires. I heard the tires squeal when we were stopping, and tried to t...
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JIMNLIN wrote:
Sure.... but keep in mind the one tire has a different tread pattern and can have different traction during hard braking events especially on wet pavement.
I would find the reason why just one tire had the flat spot. Chancer are it will flat spot again.
Generally flat spotting occurs on a tire on the front axle from braking rotational forces of the rear axle through the equalizer bar which tends to lift the front axle a bit.
Yep, it is the front right axle. I would guess the front left one didn't lift because the fridge, pantry and everything heavy is on the left side of the trailer including 3 slides. I'm sure the adjustments were the same for all of the brakes as far as the ability of the tire to turn approx 1 rotation when adjusted.
The trailer is 4 wheel drum brakes. When the incident occurred, only light bakes were being applied via the brake pedal on damp pavement. The brake controller was adjusted for a wet road. Are there any other ideas on why this would have happened then on just one wheel? Thanks for everyone's responses so far. I would like to keep this from happening again:-)
