LT Tire Replacements - All season
Time for new tires. Trying to find someone in the same weight range or that has been running their chosen brands close in the weight range listed below. Currently using. BFG Commercial TA's LT2...
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To some of the questions on the tire failures, here is a top line version. I can have more pics later.
A recap from my post above:
Some more details and pics. This was our first campout this year. A 150 mile trip one way last Friday. I have a TPM and all tires were at 80psi cold before we left.
At 100 miles into the trip, the right rear tire blew out. I only tow at 60 mph as a norm. May coast up to 65 and back down but that is it. The wind was surgeing a lot. I could tell the whole rig wiggled from the wind blasts. The tires in the non sun side of the camper where 3 deg F warmer then the sun side while towing. I thought that was odd but the pressure on all 4 was within 1 or 2 psi. Maybe the wind surges created a little more heat in the one side of the camper with more side flex? Don't know only a guess. I do not think that was a cause, more of an observation.
I heard a loud "bang", looked in right mirror and saw a puff of smoke as the tire tread flew off. Never felt it in the truck. A few seconds later the TPM went off. After limping about 1,000 feet we pulled off the side of the interstate and found this. The flying tread did some good damage to the camper and it beat up the metal valve stem on the front tire creating a leak. Even beat off the grease cap on the rear axle. After fiddling with the valve stem on the front tire I could shut up the tire leak which was now down to 60psi. I pumped it up to 80psi before moving the camper another 1,000 ft to the exit.
You can see here, the entire outer tread separated from the tire and blew off. A large sidewall split went from the OD to the bead.
And the tire on the ground after putting the spare on.
Also to note, we stopped for fuel and lug nut tightening on all tires 10 minutes before this tire blew out. Never noticed anything wrong and I was right at the tire.
I found a tire shop and bought one Firestone Transforce HT LT to replace the blown one and took the right front tire off and put it in the truck. Put the new tire on the front location as this tire took an instant overload and was leaking down before I could pull off and did not want to press my luck. Then we went to camp.
Had a great weekend campout with friends and started heading back home yesterday. At approx 100 miles into the trip, the second one blew out on the left front side. This was about 20 minutes after a gas stop. Same pattern, blew the entire tread off and a large rip in the sidewall all the way to the bead.
Sitting on the side of the interstate dealing with it.
The first blow out I left at the tire dealer. I forgot to grab it as I wanted to talk to my tire buddy on this. The second one I still have here in the barn.
More on this as I start demounting all of them once I get new replacements to put on.
These failed with what looked like the recall in 2012 showed however my tire size was not in the recall.
Thanks
John
A recap from my post above:
JBarca wrote:
I have had 2 failures this year. This might be from 2 reasons:
1. It is not beyond impossible I ran into a patch of potholes. The tires could have been damaged internally and manifested itself to the recent failures.
2. These current failed tires were also potentially made in the same BFG plant they had the recall on the next size from mine during 2012 when I put mine on. This may or may not have to do with the recent failures. BFG Recall
Mine look like this video. Tire shop showing recalled tires
I have a TPM system (Truck Systems TST) and the running pressures at 60 mph were 90psi and 89F stem temperatures when the failures occurred.
Some more details and pics. This was our first campout this year. A 150 mile trip one way last Friday. I have a TPM and all tires were at 80psi cold before we left.
At 100 miles into the trip, the right rear tire blew out. I only tow at 60 mph as a norm. May coast up to 65 and back down but that is it. The wind was surgeing a lot. I could tell the whole rig wiggled from the wind blasts. The tires in the non sun side of the camper where 3 deg F warmer then the sun side while towing. I thought that was odd but the pressure on all 4 was within 1 or 2 psi. Maybe the wind surges created a little more heat in the one side of the camper with more side flex? Don't know only a guess. I do not think that was a cause, more of an observation.
I heard a loud "bang", looked in right mirror and saw a puff of smoke as the tire tread flew off. Never felt it in the truck. A few seconds later the TPM went off. After limping about 1,000 feet we pulled off the side of the interstate and found this. The flying tread did some good damage to the camper and it beat up the metal valve stem on the front tire creating a leak. Even beat off the grease cap on the rear axle. After fiddling with the valve stem on the front tire I could shut up the tire leak which was now down to 60psi. I pumped it up to 80psi before moving the camper another 1,000 ft to the exit.
You can see here, the entire outer tread separated from the tire and blew off. A large sidewall split went from the OD to the bead.
And the tire on the ground after putting the spare on.
Also to note, we stopped for fuel and lug nut tightening on all tires 10 minutes before this tire blew out. Never noticed anything wrong and I was right at the tire.
I found a tire shop and bought one Firestone Transforce HT LT to replace the blown one and took the right front tire off and put it in the truck. Put the new tire on the front location as this tire took an instant overload and was leaking down before I could pull off and did not want to press my luck. Then we went to camp.
Had a great weekend campout with friends and started heading back home yesterday. At approx 100 miles into the trip, the second one blew out on the left front side. This was about 20 minutes after a gas stop. Same pattern, blew the entire tread off and a large rip in the sidewall all the way to the bead.
Sitting on the side of the interstate dealing with it.
The first blow out I left at the tire dealer. I forgot to grab it as I wanted to talk to my tire buddy on this. The second one I still have here in the barn.
More on this as I start demounting all of them once I get new replacements to put on.
These failed with what looked like the recall in 2012 showed however my tire size was not in the recall.
Thanks
John
