Summer time tires

Tires are made to spin.

On automobiles, we tend to measure tire life in miles, because we use the auto frequently.
Since most trailers are used less frequently, age should be measured in months.

Most clerks and even most technicians in tire stores are not experts,,at least not expert by the standards of the engineers and scientists at Mitchlin.

I couldn't believe it but I was at a well known tire chain in St. Louis where my daughter was getting a new set of tires. When I told the guy behind the desk during a conversation about tires and cars in general that I have a '70 Plymouth 'cuda with at least ten or twelve years on the tires probably more and that it sets most of the time did he think they were any good, his answer I couldn't believe he said if they look good go and use them. I'm glad I don't rely on him for advise.

First major camping weekend = lots of folks finding out that tires need to be replaced a bit more often than once every 15 years....They dry rot if not driven on over the winter and Pop goes the casing.

My Tire issues were ..Different..(And it was a car not a motor home/trailer and the tire is less than 2 years.. Bad mounting though. Oh well car tires are relatively cheap compred to22.5 inch XRVs

If we need drama, one of my first camper trips out west texas, I had a blow out and sure it was tense getting the rig slowed and off the road. It got really tense when I stepped around the trailer to inspect and stepped into a angry rattler. Took ten minutes to get off the top of the trailer. Checking your tires before getting on the hot pavement in June is useful to spot bad rubber, out of round etc.

Red ants don't even enter my mind when the subject of a high speed blow-out comes up. If you get through it alive, the property damage to your vehicle and others can be substantial. Then there is the danger and inconvenience of changing a tire alongside distracted drivers doing 75 to 90 mph. Fire ants sting but are rarely fatal or costly.

EDIT That distracted driver is talking on his cell phone and/or eating lunch while swerveing to avoid that rubber that you just scattered.