Nitto Blowout

To look at the pics it could have been a tire failure, or a slowly deflating tire that overheated then went boom.

Mark

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I've really only seen one "attitude" in this thread and it sure wasn't Pitch!

If I did you'd be guilty with your attitude..

You blew a single tire and now the entire line is crap? Name any manufacturer of anything that does not have an occasional failure. Your kind of thinking is scary. Please tell me that you have never sat on a jury!

Fordlover wrote:
So, how does one drive 70 MPH, and hit something with the back tire but not the front tire with a SRW truck?

Because the front tire will roll over the object and kick it up and send it tumbling towards the rear tire where is gets trapped as it is tumbling.

Fordlover wrote:

abc40kids wrote:
Ok, I read your post but did not see the tire pic. You had a blowout at 70mph and you automatically blame that on Nitto??? I'm guessing you hit something in the road that blew the tire out and from there the weight of the truck on the wheel shredded the tire and it started destroying your truck.

I have Nitto's on my dually and have sold them for as long as they have been around. They are excellent tires and NO tire is exempt from debris in the road that can't be seen at 70mph.

Sorry for your tire failure but people on this forum are quick to blame the tire before other more likely reasons. Your tire closer if not at the max will perform better as far as gas mileage, tire durability and hold up better to road debris.

I sell all kinds of tires, do your own search and see Nitto gets GREAT reviews and hands down my best seller!

So, how does one drive 70 MPH, and hit something with the back tire but not the front tire with a SRW truck?

Sorry, don't have the answer to that but I will tell you we fix just as many, if not more rear tires than fronts. It only takes a small piece of debris to puncture a tire if your tire hits it just right. You can only hope that when you do get the puncture that whatever you hit stays in the tire and doesn't lose air fast. It's when the debris does the damage and comes out and you lose the air immediately is when all the damage happens. Very few defective tires out there but there is a heck of a lot of debris on all the roads we drive on.

The op could have picked up something on a side street and it could have worked loose on the highway and lost air very fast and the rest is history when the rim eats the tire up.

It is a pretty common occurrence for the front tire to kick something up and it catches the rear tire just right. I haven't experienced many flats in my 27 years of driving, but all but one of them were rear tires.

Fordlover wrote:

abc40kids wrote:
Ok, I read your post but did not see the tire pic. You had a blowout at 70mph and you automatically blame that on Nitto??? I'm guessing you hit something in the road that blew the tire out and from there the weight of the truck on the wheel shredded the tire and it started destroying your truck.

I have Nitto's on my dually and have sold them for as long as they have been around. They are excellent tires and NO tire is exempt from debris in the road that can't be seen at 70mph.

Sorry for your tire failure but people on this forum are quick to blame the tire before other more likely reasons. Your tire closer if not at the max will perform better as far as gas mileage, tire durability and hold up better to road debris.

I sell all kinds of tires, do your own search and see Nitto gets GREAT reviews and hands down my best seller!

So, how does one drive 70 MPH, and hit something with the back tire but not the front tire with a SRW truck?

It happens. And just because the object did not impale itself on the front tire but punctured the rear does not mean the front did not hit it. I have no idea the nature of the OP's tire failure but I have picked up road debris on the rear that the front missed or just rode over.

abc40kids wrote:
Ok, I read your post but did not see the tire pic. You had a blowout at 70mph and you automatically blame that on Nitto??? I'm guessing you hit something in the road that blew the tire out and from there the weight of the truck on the wheel shredded the tire and it started destroying your truck.

I have Nitto's on my dually and have sold them for as long as they have been around. They are excellent tires and NO tire is exempt from debris in the road that can't be seen at 70mph.

Sorry for your tire failure but people on this forum are quick to blame the tire before other more likely reasons. Your tire closer if not at the max will perform better as far as gas mileage, tire durability and hold up better to road debris.

I sell all kinds of tires, do your own search and see Nitto gets GREAT reviews and hands down my best seller!

So, how does one drive 70 MPH, and hit something with the back tire but not the front tire with a SRW truck?