Fifth Wheel tire blow outs.
Just an observation. Traveling south on route 81 from New York to North Carolina with our travel trailer. Within 100 miles I saw two large fifth wheel trailers with left rear tires shredded.?? Do f...
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5th wheel floor plans are all over the place, so it's not like it's a "universal 5th wheel thing" that the left rear tire is going to blow.
This goes back to another discussion recently on this site about ignorance being bliss. 99%+ of all RVers do not participate in sites like this so they can get all OCD about their trailer setting level, weights, etc.. They just hook and go. 99% of that 99% get to their destination with no issues, none the wiser that they were in "grave danger." 99% of the 1% end up on the side of the road with a minor issue such as a flat tire.
Heck even at 99% I may be understating things. That's 1 in 100, and I sincerely doubt that 1 out of every 100 RV towers experience an issue on the way to the campground. It's probably closer to 1 in 10,000, or a 99.99% success rate. "Four nines" in IT parlance.
This goes back to another discussion recently on this site about ignorance being bliss. 99%+ of all RVers do not participate in sites like this so they can get all OCD about their trailer setting level, weights, etc.. They just hook and go. 99% of that 99% get to their destination with no issues, none the wiser that they were in "grave danger." 99% of the 1% end up on the side of the road with a minor issue such as a flat tire.
Heck even at 99% I may be understating things. That's 1 in 100, and I sincerely doubt that 1 out of every 100 RV towers experience an issue on the way to the campground. It's probably closer to 1 in 10,000, or a 99.99% success rate. "Four nines" in IT parlance.
