Towmax blown tires
We have had our 5th wheel for 1 1/2 years. We had all four original Towmax tires blow (at different times). The new replacements are now bad. We kept 80psi in the tires. I am very confuseed as to what...
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Me Again wrote:FastEagle wrote:
Nice to know information for owners of regrooveable tires such as the G614.
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FE
You seem to get hung up on the fact that steel ply carcass tires are generally regrooveable! Which deals with interstate commerce and laws for such use, as your link shows. Regrooving of tires is mostly done by over the road trucking companies that have their own tire shops and stock piles of tires, where they can roll a trailer in the door and back out in an hour with replacement wheels and tires, new or regrooved.
NO ONE is going to regroove a G614, XPS RIB or R250 on a RV trailer, as they will age out way before one can wear the tread down to 2/32" of an inch. NO ONE is going to tie up their trailer while the tires are send out to be regrooved. Example, I removed my RIBS at 40+K miles at 6.5 years and they had around 65 percent tread left, so I sold them on CraigsList to a guy with an old Ford pickup which was his garbage hauler. He was tickled pink to get them for 200 bucks.
The 17.5 LRH and LRJ tires now coming OEM on many trailers are steel carcass tires and would also be regrooveable. Is that a reason not to buy a new DRV trailer in your mind??? My god they have regrooveable tires, one should run the other direction. I could go back and link posts where you stated that as a negative about the XPS RIB, the tire that most love and you hate, but have never used! You have never used any higher quality tire on your current trailer! You announced at one point a while back that you were getting to old to deal with tire issues and going to 17.5" tires and rims, and then changed your mind!
Your disdain of higher quality tires for trailers and promoting of cheaply made ST tires has not wavered over the years except for the short period that you planned to switch to 17.5" tires! Which makes many question your motive!
Chris
I have been monitoring FE's posts since he first viciously attacked me for replacing my ST tires with LT tires back in June 2009.
His methods have changed over the years, but his message is the same, replace the tires that just failed and tore up your rig with more of the same. His unwavering loyalty to ST tires in the face of his admitted use of 22 tires over a 10 year span is baffling. There is no wonder that many believe that he is promoting their use for some type of compensation, look up Internet Shill.
I don't believe that this will ever change. About the only ones he can convince are the newbies. They will see the light over time and blown tires. FE will continue to promote an inferior product and that simply won't change.
Keith
