steel valves
Hello. So we purchased a new Shasta Oasis 25rs in January 2016. The tires are 205 75 14 load range c. Constancy tires. (no doubt made in China) We drove it to Seattle and back to Salt Lake City approx...
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Metal valve stems are always a nice upgrade but they will not prevent catastrophic blowouts that many RVers experience. As stated above going up a load rating would give you lots of safety margin, ST tires perform better when filled to max or near max capacity. Overloading and improper inflation are death knells for an ST tire, exceeding stated mph for the tire can cause issues but most only do it sporadically anyway which downgrades the occurrence of such an event.
We had so called china bombs come stock on our rig and managed to get 3 seasons out of them, although they only showed minor wear we replaced them with Maxxis ST tires for peace of mind. Every 5th season we replace our ST tires regardless of wear or condition, we do travel by interstate mostly and don't want to have any issues. Our rig came with metal valve stems, in the past decade we have never had the misfortune of experiencing a blowout while underway.
We had so called china bombs come stock on our rig and managed to get 3 seasons out of them, although they only showed minor wear we replaced them with Maxxis ST tires for peace of mind. Every 5th season we replace our ST tires regardless of wear or condition, we do travel by interstate mostly and don't want to have any issues. Our rig came with metal valve stems, in the past decade we have never had the misfortune of experiencing a blowout while underway.
