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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wnjj wrote: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.
Of you noticed the bang, but the point was you didn't notice the likely slow loss of air that preceded and caused the bang. TPMS can certainly help with that unless you are 100 percent sure the tire was fully inflated when it blew.
I completely agree that blowouts are rare for fully-inflated tires.
This doesn't make sense to me. If a tire starts to leak down, why would it 'blowout' as mine did ? I don't think it would. It would continue to leak air until pressure is equal to the outside, while the tire disintegrates. A blowout will result from some kind of catastrophic failure, not a slow leak.
