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Octaneforce
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May 08, 2018

Violent tire blow out messed up my rig

I have a 1993 30ft class a fleetwood coronado on a p30 chassis. Im super on top of maintenance and safety but on the way back from my last trip a rear inner tire blew out and mangled the under storage cabinets. It literally blew the doors clean off. I managed to get them back in place and limped home on 1 tire. all 6 tires were replaced about 7 months ago and only have maybe 2000 miles on them with nice even wear. They are samson 8r19.5. Definitely a cheaper tire. After closely inpecting these tires i noticed that every single one of them has small stress cracks on the sidewalls. Why are these tires failing already? Should i replace the blown out tire with another cheap samson? Id really like a new set of goodyears all around after this experience but these tires are so fresh still! Minus the stress cracks. I was running 90psi all around. The sidewall calls for 110psi which seemed high to me. What tires do you guys run? Are crazy blowouts like this common?
  • Octaneforce wrote:
    The sidewall calls for 110psi which seemed high to me.


    You have to know the weight of your RV all loaded up as you would travel....preferably at each tire location, but at least per axle. If you don't know that, you don't know what inflation pressure you SHOULD be at based on your tires capabilities. You have to look at "110 PSI to carry the load stated on the tires." What is the weight on your tires compared to that, and what load will those tires carry at 90 PSI? The Mfg should have tables giving inflation pressures and load capacities at those pressures.

    Also, never exceed the pressure the wheel can handle.