Flat Inner Dual Tire :-(

Just out of curiosity, was it the right side inner dual? A tire tech told our motorhome group that that is the most common tire failure with duals. Why? Driving off the edge of the paved road puts full load on the single tire. Eventually it had been over stressed enough.

Over the last 20 years we have had two flats, (one a blow out, one discovered when checking pressure before the trip) both were right side inner dual.

Rich,

FWIW, it's AAA that told me that their policy was not to service dual set inner tire flats ... so they said it was up to the technician they sent out whether or not it would be taken care of ... when our motorhome was sitting right in our own back yard! The technician arrived and agreed to try and service the inner flat. I helped the technician and we did get the inner tire changed.

I dropped AAA after that, as dual set inner rear tires represent one third of our motorhome's tires and I thought that a policy of not servicing them was unacceptable for a motorhome owner. What if this had happened out in the middle of nowhere and the AAA technician had refused to change the inner flat?

Thanks for the responses.

Yes, the tire is as old as the coach. We're due for fresh tires.
We have both Good Sam and AAA for ERS. Since the RV is at home, I wonder if they would jack the RV, remove the tire, let me take it to get fixed, then come back and reinstall it. What do you think?

I'll keep you all updated on the repairs!

Is it as old as the coach?

Is it still on your coach? If so, how are you going to take it anyplace ... A) take it off yourself, or B) have an ERS take it off for you.

If A), I'm curious - please let us know how that goes.

If B), FWIW - I dropped our ERS after decades because they refused to service a rear dual inner flat on our motorhome (the very reason I had their ERS for our motorhome!). What ERS do you have?

Without having the tire and wheel to examine, anything we say would be pure guess work. The flat could have been caused by anything from a nail in the tire to a loose or sticky valve stem to a rusty spot on the wheel bead seat. Or something else...

1) A nail caused the flat.
2) No, take it to a truck shop. The punk kids at Discount WILL damage your coach.