Tow Max tire failure

Boxer Lovers wrote:
I had 5 Carlyle ST235/85R16's, 12 ply tires installed on the fifth wheel this morning. Pressure cold is 95 p.s.i. compared to 72# for Tow Max O.E.s. Much more substantial tire. Shame on DRV for cutting corners on this critical safety issue by using Chinese made Tow Max tires.

In preparation for a summer out west starting Friday, I filled up the truck and went to the CAT scale. The rig is 90% loaded for the trip so weights are close. The scale said I still have over 2,000 #s of axle capacity left on the 5er. Total weight is 3,000#s short of maximum weight capacity. No way should the O.E. tire have failed. No safe tire would have.

Tow Max tires used by DRV are not safe.

You are most likely good on your tire capacity now. I would like to tell you about my weight study. I weighted my new TT and found that I was close on all the tire weights with the OEM selected tires. I ran those tire for their life and replaced them without failure. The interesting condition I noticed was that the curb side wore at least 50% more that the drivers side. I found out that the curb side was much heavier than the driver side. I was over on the curb side tires. The trailer was 2500lbs below max GVW.

I also did a trailer level test to see the effect of the suspension equalization. I could easily overload one axle with different tongue heights. If I backed up on a hill there is no chance that the equalization can keep up with angle change.
MM49