Speed and blown tires
Another thought I had while driving home today again from our holiday camping trip up north. I posted about driving to fast and not surprisingly I was told I was going to fast at 68mph even though I ...
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GoPackGo wrote:drsteve wrote:coolbreeze01 wrote:
Most "blow outs" are flat tires run to the point of disintegration.
A point that is missed far too often in tire discussions. When your truck gets a flat, you feel it immediately and pull over. With a tandem axle trailer, it's a lot less likely that you'll notice a slowly deflating tire before it is completely destroyed. Once that happens it's impossible to tell a defective tire detonation from a nail-induced slow leak that went undetected.
Hence, the love many have for their TPMS.
A month ago when my trailer tire blew, I noticed it. It sounded like a shotgun being fired back by the trailer. A TPMS would not have been any help at all.
that depends. had the cause been a slow leak and overheated tire, a tpms would have warned you.
Several of us with tpms that I travel with have picked up nails. tpms warned us and I can say that NONE of us had ANY clue from the way the trailer handled that tire pressure was going down, even after carefully monitoring it in some cases till we could get to a safe place to stop and check. and even with tire pressure on one tire down 50 percent NO clues.
