The China-Bomb debate Put to rest
Almost every week or more a thread appears with someone with a tire question. And just as predictably the China Bomb experts come out and start decrying all Chinese made tires. Then usually they re...
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JIMNLIN wrote:pira wrote:
Tires in both classes have failed prematurely for several reasons, an unknown percentage of them fail for unknown reasons.
I'm curious where your information that both classes have failed prematurely comes from.
Your saying LT and ST fail at the same rates....... which they do not.
Checking around the net in all the different rv/non rvtrailering forums"" we see very few LT tire failures when used in a trailer position..... at least anywhere near the ST tire failure rate even when we consider percentage of tires used in a trailer position.
Where do you expect to find anecdotal stories about ST TIRES? Yes on a Trailer Forum.
And Why do you NOT hear about LT tires failures on a TRAILER Forum? because those with ST tires outnumber the ones with LT's by a very large margin. Probably thousands of St tires to one LT.
There is plenty of good hard facts out there about LT tire failures. But it tends not to be "bunched" together in forums like this one.
If you want to get to the truth of anything you need to go to the source.
This information is out there and I have posted some of it in this Thread it's there for you to read and Google and delve into deeper.
And for the umpteenth time in this discussion: Tires, ALL tires are very dependable and rarely fail. But when they do fail it is almost always for underinflation or overloading...not country of origin or manufacturer....Source: NHTSA
