China Bombs Got Me
I have read many posts about the poor quality of tires RV manufacturers are putting on new RV's. Well these tires (the infamous Tow Max Power King) blew on my 5er causing damage. I always check for p...
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wa8yxm wrote:LostinAZ wrote:
I find it offensive that anyone who reports a tire failure gets grilled about tire pressure and/or weight.
The suggestion was that he call an attorney.
The reason for asking the questions about tire pressure and weight is because that is what the tire company is going to claim. HE UNDERINFLATED THEM.
or did not properly inflate them
So I ask the question, here, where he has the choice of responding or not, to prepare him for what the Tire Company Liar is going to claim.
Now do you understand the question?
Personally... I know that most folks are more likely to go with the max pressure for the tire than they are the sticker pressure on the RV and at that pressure you loose several things, including tire life (But not that much) mostly tread life, not blow out loss.
You loose control easier, and it's a rougher ride, but it's not as likely to blow out as if it's under inflated.
I also had a trailer that even with max pressure would blow a casing every time I towed it till I upgraded the tires.
THIS. I suspect, is the Original poster's problem.. But as I said the Tire Company Liar and the trailer maker will try to blame the original poster. How it's done. So he needs to be ready to answer those question if he sues, which he should do.
The primary (but not all) offending parties in all these tire failure prolems are the original RV manufacturers. Until we RV owners hold the manufacturers responsible for using these underated and poorly built tires on the RV's they sell to the unsuspecting public, nothing will change. As long as the tire manufacturers and RV manufacturers can divert our attention from them the more they can get by with this shoddy practice. So when we attack RV owners for tire failures all we are doing is assigning the blame where it doesn't belong. I find it very telling that those same RV owners that have had OEM ST Tire failures suddenly cean up their tire PM procedusres when they install LT tires. You and I both know that is a complete fabrication.
