Tires- LT or ST

StonedPanther wrote:

Huntindog wrote:

CapriRacer wrote:
As a tire engineer, I find these discussions very interesting. It's hard to sort out the experiences some had recently against someone who remembers the way it used to be long ago.

There was a time where LT tires didn't perform very well - which is why the government tests were changed. What we don't have is reliable information about current tires. This is partially because things have improved to the point where actual failures are fairly rare.

I am on a few forums. One thing has not changed over my 30+ years of towing RVs.
Tire problems were, and still are easily the most common topic

That's because 95+% of folks on forums know as much about towing and trailer tires as they do when it comes to determining what end is the business end of a screwdriver.

My tire BLEW OUT LOL. That happened sometime after Joe Blowout took a long trip and stopped to pee every 60 miles by pulling off and riding down debris filled road shoulders to make the pee stop, maybe clipping a curb a few times too.

How many times since RV forums have been in existence have you seen someone admit they had a tire failure of some sort and it was their fault. I don't think I've ever seen one.

I did haha, my blowout last summer was from driving through a construction zone on the highway and having to be on the shoulder so I picked up something off the road, and the one on my old trailer with 9 year old tires was from hitting a pothole at a train track at 50mph which I totally should have seen. almost no such thing as a spontaneous failure, there's always some reason. with our massive dump trucks at the mine, we get the same thing. rolling over a rock the size of a fist puts stress on cords, and it doesn't blow then but as you roll over more rocks over the next few months the spot gets weaker and weaker and later down the road it lets lose.