Damage from tire blow-outs
Occasionally I'll read or hear about someone whose RV was damaged from a tire blowout. What's the usual type of damage suffered in cases like this? Obviously this could could happen to any RV so you h...
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BurbMan wrote:
Any RV can be damaged by a blowout, depending on how they are made. Some trailers don't have steel wheelwells, and a blown tire can put a hole in the floor of the camper. If wires and propane lines are run in close proximity to the tires, they can be ripped out by a blowout. Depending on how the tire comes apart, it can also do damage to the exterior body of the RV.
This was my tire on the right front of the trailer
Fortunately, I have steel wheel wells, and the only wire nearby was going to the clearance light on the fender skirt. Damage was very minimal...I was lucky, had the tire come apart differently it may have cost me thousands.
Big class A's tend to be sturdier than trailer, but they also have much bigger tires, so the same possibility for damage exists there.
Was that a LT or ST tire?
