Another Tire Blowout
I bought Jayco Jay Feather hybrid new in 2014. It had 4 Towmax ST185/80R13 tires from the factory. Since owning the camper I've blown out 3 tires. Took the camper out for the first time this year last...
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Yessir, Ralph, not always the tire, Although, IMHO, a higher-quality tire will withstand punishment better. I've had 3 flats over the years. Rough forest service roads. One on the truck and 2 on a toy hauler. 2 were confirmed sidewall punctures. The latest, on the toy hauler last year, wasn't detected for a couple of miles. Traveling 10-15 mph and lots of dust. We found the likely puncture spot in spite of the damage. Left rear tire so the drag broke the spring shackles. A really "Good Sam" came along and helped Wife and I change the tire and figure out how to get the rig to the nearest suitable camp spot. He had a couple of spare shackles and helped me change out the busted ones.
While we were changing the tire a pickup stopped a short way up the road. 2 flats. The "Good Sam" guy had been camping in the area for a week. He said ours and the truck flat tires totaled 7 on that stretch of road. That he knew about.
My new TT has LR C tires, 50 psi, likely the cheapest to be found. I'll try them for a season or two, then get a good set of LR E, upper end.
PS I gotta figure out to post a photo!
[/img]Ralph Cramden wrote:time2roll wrote:vladio wrote:'blew' is a very generic term. Could have been a road hazard that reduced pressure until the tire over heated and let go. Then the tire is shredded beyond recognition so the cause is not found.
I checked the pressure last week an hour before it blew, it was right on 50.
Couple weeks ago I picked up a screw. I was lucky to notice a bit of tire bulge at a fuel stop. Pressure was down from 65 to 35 in just a few hours. Another couple hours and the whole tire could have 'blew' with no fault of the tire.
And yes I have had a tread come off and another with the tread separating ready to come off. Both still holding full pressure and obvious poor quality tire.
Time2......you know how it goes by now on these boards.....its always the tires fault. Never is it low pressure for whatever reason, overspeed, overload, a curb clip, or constant pull overs on debris filled shoulders of the road.
Going by these RV board tire threads, and knowing that the vast majority of towable RVs have Chinese ST tires OEM, I can't figure out why I don't see 200 people or more pulled over with "blowouts" every Friday and Sunday all summer on a 10 mile section of road here. It feeds 2 state parks and half a dozen private parks from a PA turnpike exit.
Yessir, Ralph, not always the tire, Although, IMHO, a higher-quality tire will withstand punishment better. I've had 3 flats over the years. Rough forest service roads. One on the truck and 2 on a toy hauler. 2 were confirmed sidewall punctures. The latest, on the toy hauler last year, wasn't detected for a couple of miles. Traveling 10-15 mph and lots of dust. We found the likely puncture spot in spite of the damage. Left rear tire so the drag broke the spring shackles. A really "Good Sam" came along and helped Wife and I change the tire and figure out how to get the rig to the nearest suitable camp spot. He had a couple of spare shackles and helped me change out the busted ones.
While we were changing the tire a pickup stopped a short way up the road. 2 flats. The "Good Sam" guy had been camping in the area for a week. He said ours and the truck flat tires totaled 7 on that stretch of road. That he knew about.
My new TT has LR C tires, 50 psi, likely the cheapest to be found. I'll try them for a season or two, then get a good set of LR E, upper end.
PS I gotta figure out to post a photo!
