Blowout, bad and good luck

Dog Trainer wrote:

PortWentworthSam wrote:

Dog Trainer wrote:

PortWentworthSam wrote:
You are very lucky and blessed to come out the other side of this without damage to your m/h, yourselves or others. You seriously need to think about that.

This blow-out could have ended with a horrific crash that could have taken out an entire family leaving a tragic mess behind for others to clean up and live with. Driving with 8 YEAR OLD TIRES just because they look good is irresponsible at best. Especially in a motorhome that outweighs most vehicles on the highway by TONS.

Instead of thinking about "Gettin another year outa these old tires" think about the people you are endangering on the highway and the children you just might kill in a wreck you cause by having dangerous old tires.

I'm sorry to be harsh here. This is a perfect example of people that put their wallet ahead of common sense and safety on the highways.

And where are your facts and figures for the number of people killed and maimed over these blowouts of 8 year old properly cared for and inflated tires ? many tire sites such as Michelin quote 10 years. Please we have enough of these BS non factual posts without this one.

He didn't have Michelin Tires...The OP said he had Goodyear (enough said about that). I didn't quote figures,, I said IF.

Why take a chance on old tires? It's irresponsible, PERIOD. It's called SAFETY first, Wallet second. The OP also stated he had 48,000 miles on those Goodyear Tires.

8 year old tires on a beast of a motor home going 67 MPH is a disaster in the making. If the OP doesn't understand that then maybe he should hang up his keys before he kills someone.

As of now we have no Idea as to what caused the blow out the tires being old I don't think so 48,000 miles not even close. So people come on an give their opinions about how safe an 8 year old tire is I will stand by my original statement before you belittle the OP state your facts not guesses and who made you the judge as to whether the OP should hand up his keys completely out of line . Just a newbie trying to increase his post count.

I ran my first set of Michelin XRV tires 10 years having all the tires broken down off the rim and inspected every year starting with the 6th year of use. My tire guy inspected them and said I'm good to go! How is that irresponsible? Michelin's website never says that you can run a tire for 10 years! They do say if you have a tire that is 10 years old it should be replaced. I'm not referring to the OP, but I read an article on RV tires that said most blow outs on RV 's comes from inter sidewall damage going up and over curbs and running a RV up onto a wood or plastic planks or blocks and not having the complete underside of the tire on the planks or blocks. I see this practice at least once from a RV in every large RV Park that I visited. Lastly the magazine article said low tire pressure causes a lot of blowouts due to it causes high heat build up inside the tire.