Michelin tire blow out!!
On a recent trip to the Western end of the Florida panhandle, we had a blowout on the right rear inside tire. Luckily it was on a straight section of Interstate Hwy with very wide and flat shoulders a...
Forum Discussion
Dusty R wrote:
I use a rather inexpensey digital radiant thermometer to check my tires, at rest stops.
Dusty
Using the IR gun is well and good, but please do not believe it is telling you the real story on tire temperature. The IR gun is only reading the relatively cool surface. The area of measurement is too large to give accurate reading of the hot spots and rubber failure initiation is not based on average temperature but based on the hottest locations which are many times 0.05" is diameter and maybe 1/2" inside the structure.
Here are two posts on IR guns.
Rubber is a good insulator so it does not reflect the real temperature of a tire.
