Reflections on 6 Months of RV Research! ;)
Hi Class C Forum, I caught the RV bug about 6 months ago after a particularly stressful stretch at work. Researching RVs has become the way that I decompress when I have some discretionary time. Cu...
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I sure wish someone would publish the results of any study ever made on how much scrubbing tandem rear tires are exposed to in turns on hard surface roads. :h
Simply geometry says it has to be happening - with a resultant reduction in rear tire tread life. Could be a lot ... could be insignificant ... but it HAS TO BE happening.
If one needs personal proof of it - stand beside a tandem wheel boat trailer or a tandem wheel RV trailer while the driver is jockying it around making tight turns on asphalt or concrete to position it. Standing beside it you can hear the rubber tread scrubbing on the surface just a bit. Granted, curves driving down the road are much more gradual, but the scrubbing action is still slowly but surely happening hour after hour. It seems to me that wear has to be adding up.
Simply geometry says it has to be happening - with a resultant reduction in rear tire tread life. Could be a lot ... could be insignificant ... but it HAS TO BE happening.
If one needs personal proof of it - stand beside a tandem wheel boat trailer or a tandem wheel RV trailer while the driver is jockying it around making tight turns on asphalt or concrete to position it. Standing beside it you can hear the rubber tread scrubbing on the surface just a bit. Granted, curves driving down the road are much more gradual, but the scrubbing action is still slowly but surely happening hour after hour. It seems to me that wear has to be adding up.
