Tires...why do rv tires blow apart so bad?
Just wondering...why do motorhome, trailer, 5th wheel tires blow apart so bad that they cause damage to the rv?? I've had many flats on my cars and vans over the last 43 years but never had one come a...
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They don't blow apart.
They fling themselves apart from being run at high speed after they've deflated and become hot enough to melt the treads off the tire body. The crash and bang at the end is the melted tread finally coming apart from centrifugal inertia minutes or hours after it started to deflate.
Dual wheels on motorhomes, the tire that comes apart is not necessarily the one that deflated, rather it is the one that didn't, and got run with twice its rated load until it overheated and threw the tread. After it throws the tread, then it might blow.
Same thing happens to trailer tires, even dual drive tires on the big trucks. Not to steer tires, a good driver can feel that one going down and coming apart.
They fling themselves apart from being run at high speed after they've deflated and become hot enough to melt the treads off the tire body. The crash and bang at the end is the melted tread finally coming apart from centrifugal inertia minutes or hours after it started to deflate.
Dual wheels on motorhomes, the tire that comes apart is not necessarily the one that deflated, rather it is the one that didn't, and got run with twice its rated load until it overheated and threw the tread. After it throws the tread, then it might blow.
Same thing happens to trailer tires, even dual drive tires on the big trucks. Not to steer tires, a good driver can feel that one going down and coming apart.
