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Road_Phantom
Explorer II
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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avan
Explorer
Oct 22, 2016
2oldman wrote:
avan wrote:
I've never thought before that there might be something different, better or worse, in a dealer lot vs a street, any other parking lot etc. What would the differences be?
Nothing. Sitting is sitting.
Oh, okay. I was thinking that perhaps dealers had a less consumer friendly brand of ozone permeating their lots :B

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