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Daveinet
Jul 23, 2013Explorer
I just had a blowout Saturday on the rear of my coach. The tire came apart as a result of tread separation. The bead stayed on both sides of the rim. The rest of the tire was gone. I do not have Tyron bands or anything else to keep the tire on the rim. It just normally stays there. Only once have I ever had the tire come off the rim, and that did not happen until the vehicle was nearly stopped. That was an oddball 16.5 rim, which has no lip to keep the tire in place. Normal rims have a lip, so the sidewall stays in place, even under catastrophic failure.
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