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CapriRacer
Explorer II
Feb 07, 2012

Revived Trailer Tire Thread (formerly on the 5th Wheel Forum

OK, I'll try this again but with a different tack. I am of the opinion that ST tires should have a 15% reserve capacity (85% of the load at a given pressure) in order to be reasonably sure they wo...
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FastEagle
Explorer
Mar 02, 2012
Chris wrote:


Running over an alligator (tire cap) on the highway should not take out a trailer tire.
Chris


Aren’t you the same guy that once said I was full of baloney because I said tires could lose air just by hitting a pot hole?

Maybe you should stop and check out a large chunk of destroyed tire tread/carcass beside the road sometime. It will give you more incentive to try and miss them in the future.

FE

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