Issues raised for discussion w/r our flat
An inner dually flat story FYI
After 8 yrs of no flats, we had an inner dually go flat about 30 mi from home and 6 mi from the destination cg
Turning from one two lane state road to a parish/‘county’ lane, we noticed a higher pitched sound that Martha thought was wind leaking in, and I thought a pavement sound difference.
At cg, I scoped it out to find inner dually curbside had no air. We were just out for a noon-noon 1 day trip and a lot of nature for dog walking
Called Safeco at 1:30 pm, and they came up w/ two services who both backed out ‘cuz of dually. This entailed many automated status calls for the ETA of the several bailed service providers. Safeco was trying for quick response, I guess, but not distinguishing RV from regular auto (at least, not as well as possible). DGMR, I like Safeco.
We weren’t 50 mi from home, and we had the contact name of TCI, the national truck center for big rig tires ‘n service. They put the Laredo tires on 2 years ‘n 8000 mi ago.
Safeco apologized for things and I told then I’d spoken w/ the TCI guy and if they could get w/ him, I’d be happy to pay the difference between replace w/ spare and fix tire on spot (at most $50). Safeco seemed happy to pay in full. They got together, a TCI guy came to the state park at 9 am the next morning, discovered the valve stem was bad (maybe from magic beads as balancers), replaced rubber w/ metal stem, remounted, and all is well.
This could have been SO bad in 93 degrees on a freeway shoulder and 3 dogs and me going anxiety crazy…
We ended overall w/ quite a normal park dog walk and it was really no big prob in this set of circumstances.
I wrote this as I feel there are many issues this story might raise for RV emergencies.
After 8 yrs of no flats, we had an inner dually go flat about 30 mi from home and 6 mi from the destination cg
Turning from one two lane state road to a parish/‘county’ lane, we noticed a higher pitched sound that Martha thought was wind leaking in, and I thought a pavement sound difference.
At cg, I scoped it out to find inner dually curbside had no air. We were just out for a noon-noon 1 day trip and a lot of nature for dog walking
Called Safeco at 1:30 pm, and they came up w/ two services who both backed out ‘cuz of dually. This entailed many automated status calls for the ETA of the several bailed service providers. Safeco was trying for quick response, I guess, but not distinguishing RV from regular auto (at least, not as well as possible). DGMR, I like Safeco.
We weren’t 50 mi from home, and we had the contact name of TCI, the national truck center for big rig tires ‘n service. They put the Laredo tires on 2 years ‘n 8000 mi ago.
Safeco apologized for things and I told then I’d spoken w/ the TCI guy and if they could get w/ him, I’d be happy to pay the difference between replace w/ spare and fix tire on spot (at most $50). Safeco seemed happy to pay in full. They got together, a TCI guy came to the state park at 9 am the next morning, discovered the valve stem was bad (maybe from magic beads as balancers), replaced rubber w/ metal stem, remounted, and all is well.
This could have been SO bad in 93 degrees on a freeway shoulder and 3 dogs and me going anxiety crazy…
We ended overall w/ quite a normal park dog walk and it was really no big prob in this set of circumstances.
I wrote this as I feel there are many issues this story might raise for RV emergencies.
