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Road_Phantom
Explorer
Oct 22, 2016

Do RV tires deteriorate when sitting on dealer lots.

I bought a four year old used 5th wheel and had a blowout on my first run. Suspecting that it might be lot rot in the tires, I changed the whole set even though the treads looked new on them. The enti...
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wildtoad
Explorer II
Oct 22, 2016
Rubber tires start to deteriorate as soon as they come out of the press/mold. How they are stored, cleaned, and otherwise maintained effects how long it takes to become a failure. Just sitting on the ground for four years is a bad thing to do.

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