Blow Out What To Expect
I have never had a blowout. I can't really see my tires back there. My trailer is 36' long and weighs in around 12k. For those of you who have had blowouts did you feel it right away or was it the ...
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2500 Grunt wrote:fj12ryder wrote:Turtle n Peeps wrote:I think I'd take exception to that statement. A blowout is an explosive decompression of the tire. It can be caused by many things including a build up of heat, perhaps due to the tread separating. It gets too hot, and BOOM. A TPMS will alert you to excessive heat, perhaps before the tire goes BOOM.
A TPMS will NEVER save you from a blowout.
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A blowout is: the tire is good, good, good, good, BOOM, not good.
A TPMS is good for tires that get a puncture in them and go flat and shred. Only had one of those in my life in my life. Only felt a slight vibration in the steering wheel and saw a little rubber coming off.
Never had a blowout on my trailer and I have ran ST China tires all my life.
What about an over inflated tire with over torqued lug nuts running faster than a ST tire can handle in 120 degree air temp? Could even add a over loaded axle to it too.
None of the thousands of failed tires from the field, I inspected in my 40 year failed simply because of over-inflation. Most tires can handle many times the inflation on the tire sidewall if not damaged from abuse.
If properly inflated (sidewall max) even exceeding the 65mph limit in Phoenix is not enough in the short term to cause a Blowout. High heat from these conditions can cause accelerated aging (heat affects are not linear but double each 18F). Such aging can lead to degradation of rubber elasticity which then can lead to a separation of the belts from the body which is not a "Blowout".
