Tire concern
I have a 5th wheel that is 2 years old and has about 6000 miles on the tires. The rear axle tires have dimbles on the sidewall. Is that the beginning of tire failure?
Forum Discussion
aftermath wrote:
You asked a very good question and you got a very good answer. Sidewall indentations are not to worry about, they are actually stronger than the rest of the sidewall.
Not necessarily. The Tow Max tires that came on my trailer (2010) developed these undulations within 6 months of taking delivery. I asked the dealer and US distributors about this and was told "this is normal". Within 2 years one of the undulations ruptured and blew out a "H" shaped hole in the sidewall. The cross of the H was one of the undulations. A local tire guy determined the undulation was where 2 pieces of sidewall reinforcement was spliced and the bond had failed.
Before you jump on the low air pressure, I run a TPMS system and had observed the pressures less than a mile before the blowout.
BTW my Goodyear G641 show no such sidewall indentation after nearly 4 years now.
