Are Our Tires REALLY that sensitive?
I know I will roust the ire of many a tire aficionado, as well as those who will claim expert knowledge from years of traveling and RV'ing and quasi-engineering or actual engineering status/certificat...
Forum Discussion
mabynack wrote:
I feel the same way. My truck tires last 5 years before the tread wears out. Two of my FW tires had catastrophic failures within 100 miles and they were less than two years old and had less than 10,000 miles on them. I've had issues with tires in the past, so I check the pressures every morning before I start off. I run 65 mph or less on the highway. The last one blew out about a hundred miles into the trip and the sun was just coming up, so overheating and under-inflation weren't an issue.
I would like to go on a trip, but don't dare leave the driveway unless I have new tires on my FW.
Not sure how you know that under-inflation wasn't the cause of the last "Run Low Flex Break" (correct term for blowout).
I have over 20 posts with label "blowout" on my tire blog. These are posted in an attempt to educate people in the variety of real reasons tires fail suddenly. If you read only one then I suggest THIS one as the owner in this case said he checked the air just 50 miles before the failure but sadly for him the physical evidence is incontrovertible...The tire was run while the tire was still leaking air.
