Speaking of tires and truck campers..........
We had our first truck flat while hauling our camper back in July while driving thru Memphis on our way to Colorado. The tire didn't really go flat, it had a belt separate and it started bouncing/sha...
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mkirsch wrote:
How often do you really have flats anymore? It was one thing back in the nylon bias ply tire days when you could run over a Tic-Tac and puncture a tire.
Tires today are much more resilient and reliable. As long as you don't let the tires get too bald or too old, you'll go decades between flats.
Not if but when and where. Flats are like the lottery. You can buy tickets for years and never hit it or you can buy one ticket and be a millionaire.
I've had 2 flats in my lifetime. One when I was 20 years old and ran my skins bald and last year on the side of 94 with the camper, which, indirectly was my own fault for allowing the tire shop to install cheap rubber valve stems that failed. Why I went to bolt in, all metal stems. For one, they have the highest pressure rating, well above my maximum inflation pressure and two, there is nothing to fail and they look nice on my mirror polished aluminum Alcoa's as well.
Never seen a commercial truck with a rubber stem (I bet) and race car drivers use metal stems as well because they are inherently safer... and are required by their rulebook.
