Tire blow out trailer
My buddy just sent me these on the way to Va. From Ct. Trailer is under one year old. Click For Full-Size Image. Click For Full-Size Image. Click For Full-Size Image.
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PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:ReneeG wrote:wmoses wrote:ReneeG wrote:
Couple of things here. We had a blowout on our fifth wheel recently and we have a TPMS system. No warning and I had just looked at the screen, when boom!
Just a little bit of a tangent here since I am in the market for a TPMS - can you tell me what brand / model you have?
TST Systems.
Two things
1) A TPMS would not have warned of the incident in the OP photos. The tire still had pressure. A TPMS could actually increase damage because the driver might not think something was wrong with the noise or what he saw in the mirror because the TPMS showed regular pressure.
A TPMS would have shown the driver if the tire was being run at low pressure or high heat previously. As noted in several posts - the tire could have been damaged by those in the past, and be at normal pressure/ temps at the time the actual tread separation happened.
Running a tire at low pressure for several hours could start a problem which won't reach a failure point for a long time. And with no warning. That is why you need to check the tire, by feeling the tread area for bumps and bulges before you start towing.
2) A TPMS warns of a developing problem of pressure and/ or temperature. A road hazard tire failure - i.e. running over a piece of debris - can happen too fast for a TPMS to warn the driver.
If a tire has a blowout and loses pressure, the TPMS will alert, but it may be too late to prevent. If a tread separates - the TPMS will almost always not alert.
Does not matter which brand of TPMS.
Paw Paw n Gram, you're right, which is what I've learned since then.
