Flat Rear Tire
My first trip in our 2001 HR Ambassador wasn't the smooth experience I had hoped for. I wanted to put some air in the tires on out way out of town since its cold. My first problem was finding a plac...
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Audioa_fan wrote:
Jim,
The tires are all 4 years old and seem to be in excellent shape. I had checked all 6 tires a week or so prior to our trip with a gauge and they were all on or about 95 pounds of pressure. They had dropped in pressure due to a considerable drop in temperature. My intention was to top off the pressure on my way out of town. So I don't know when the tire went flat, but I only drove about 2 miles total on it that way at less then 30 MPH.
I shouldn't have thought it necessary to add this, but I now have a framing hammer to "kick the tires" with at rest stops for bathroom breaks. I will certainly be checking air pressures with a gauge before every leg of a trip. I had never considered getting a TPMS but I am now going to research that option.
Thanks again...
That being the case, I'd take my chances too. Monitor pressure as well as appearance very closely. Inspect the tires before every travel day. Down on your knees looking between the duals and on the back side. Look for tread separating at the shoulder of the tire, and also for bulges and anything like that. Sure would be nice to have the answer to the puzzle of why that tire went down. Maybe as simple as a frozen valve that didn't re-seat after the last time you checked the pressure? But yes, I'd run them.
I had 2 tire troubles in moho#1. First I took out a right rear outer hitting a curb. Put the spare on. The very next day, less than 400 miles later, the inner on that corner failed catastrophically. Not something anyone wants to repeat.
The knight got a TPMS right away. Toward the end of the first summer, it started going BEEP BEEEP BEEP while cruising down the highway at 70 plus. Right rear outer was down under 70 psi! I got her on the shoulder and stopped, and watched as the pressure fell to zero inside of 5 minutes.
Coachnet had my unmounted spare on within an hour.
Inspection of the failed tire showed the tread separating from the sideway for 1/3 of the diameter! Without the warning from the TPMS, this one would have failed catastrophically within just a few more miles.
