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familyman_2
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Aug 14, 2016

Rear driver tire smoking after stop and go traffic

Hello everyone, So I'm sitting behind a church in the shade waiting for my wheel to cool down so I thought I'd take a few minutes and ask for your help. I95 is stop and go ( pulling trailer with t...
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Greene728
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Aug 15, 2016
mkirsch wrote:
Your rim was NOT hot enough to cause the smoke. If it was, your tire would have blown!!!

The smoke was coming from the brake, for sure.


Agreed. For something to get hot enough to begin melting a tire causing it to smoke, you'd most likely already have a fire somewhere else! Brakes, seal, or bearing all day.

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