China bombs still bombs if way under limits?

ktmrfs wrote:
I also worked for a company where we manufactured a signficant number of products in China. Some in our own plant, some from companies with plants in china, and in many cases sourced components, and subassemblies from china plants.

Our experience is that quality can be as high or higher than U.S. manufactured products. However, we paid very careful attention to processes and procedures in our own plant and suppliers to insure quality.

Just like in they U.S. and rest of world, if your not careful about supplier requirements or mfg processes what you get can vary all over the place for quality.

IMHO it isn't a "made in china or not" issue, it's a "what is your production process control and specifications issue". GIGO, lack of process control, or inferior spec's = inferior product.

Companies with good reputations to uphold have good products regarless of mfg location. Companies that don't care much about quality will have quality issue regardless of mfg location.

IMHO Tires, both trailer and auto/truck, have a signficant number of companies in both camps. You can get quality in Chinese tires, or you can get junk, same as with auto tires.

In trailer tires, couple poor quality with the inability to detect when a tires starts to loose pressure and you have a quick path towards catastrophic failures rather than changing a flat.

It's virtually impossible to detect a trailer tire loosing pressure. Been there, know first hand. A tire down 15-20lbs or more and you won't notice it one bit. Run it to long and boom.

I've had a TPMS on my trailer and it warned me of a slow leak, saw it drop about 10lbs during the day, TPMS warned me, and sure enough it had a nail in it. w/o TPMS very likely could have had ablowout before the end of the day caused by overloaded tire

Will a TPMS prevent all blowouts? NO. have a bad tire with belt seperation, or something causing a rapid loss of pressure, TPMS isn't likely to help. But the more common nail, yes it will.

BTW, myself and 4 others I know have TPMS on our trailers or toads. between the five of us we have had 3 occasions where the TPMS warned us of a slow leak, and likely avoided a blowout.

Good enough for me to always run a TT with a TPMS.