wnjj wrote:
fj12ryder wrote:
"I find it hard to believe that “blowouts” on 2-3 year old tires of any type is anything but a road hazard or overloaded/under inflated tire in most cases. Remember, one small screw can turn “properly inflated” to “under inflated” as you drive. Several year old tires are another matter."
You may find it hard to believe, but it's true. I blew out two tires that were barely 2 years and less than 8,000 miles. Pressures were good and not overloaded. In fact there was about 2500 lbs. on "E" rated 235/85-16 ST tires. Just poorly constructed tires.
You missed the first part where I said road hazard. I also said “most.” While you can control the load and check pressures it’s impossible for anyone to know of everything their tires come in contact with. You may have suffered from a terrible coincidence or something like what happened to me when a new snowmobile trailer tire failed hours later because the tire shop failed to notice the rim had a leak which is what killed the first one.
Valve stems fail, road hazards and slow leaks happen but yes, sometimes tires just fail because they are defective. Replacing tires sooner and sooner won’t help those cases.
You seem to have missed the facts that on this and every other RV forum.
No one has "flats", they are all "blowouts".
Imported ST tires are junk despite 99% of the RV towing public never having visited a forum, never having had a blowout, and literally a couple of million put on the road yearly on new RVs. The other fact is at NHTSA the numbers of recalls and complaints do not support the forum banter either.
No one on a forum has ever picked up a nail, slapped a pothole, clipped a curb, or anything else. It's always the tire manufacturers cheap construction.
When one has two blowouts at the same time that's road hazard. It's not because the one tire going down overloaded the other. It's also not because the no good manufacturer who can't make a decent tire, can also make them so consistent their defects show up at the same time.
