Why do I keep blowing out tires on my truck?
The last three sets of tires on my 2007 Ram 2500 have had one tire blow out. Always the same, passenger side rear. Have not weighed my trailer but specs are 7,000 dry, GVWR 10,500, pin weight 1,500....
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OP, it is highly unlikely it’s a vehicular issue. Unless you literally had the same rim in the same position for 10 years and never rotated tires.
It’s also unlikely overloading, unless there’s more to your loading scenario than you posted. But that would make both rear tires equally suspect for failure.
The only plausible explanation aside from coincidence I see is sun damage and the dynamic loading of your rear tires under the pin weight. Which is more than the dynamic loading on the fronts even though the fronts carry more static load when empty.
Maybe you’ll expound and maybe verify that it truly was tread separation and not some form of damage that caused the blow outs.
In my experience, passenger side tires in general are more susceptible to road damage from debris, as most debris ends up on the right shoulder of the road and is easiest hit by the right side tires.
Maybe coincident but our new truck with big neg offset wheels picked up 3 different punctures last winter. 1 RF and 2 RR. 1 was a bolt and the other 2 were pieces of broken tire chains, obviously picked up the only place I drove where chains required and in the snow when they were likely invisible, because I only went over the pass during good snow conditions for riding.
It’s also unlikely overloading, unless there’s more to your loading scenario than you posted. But that would make both rear tires equally suspect for failure.
The only plausible explanation aside from coincidence I see is sun damage and the dynamic loading of your rear tires under the pin weight. Which is more than the dynamic loading on the fronts even though the fronts carry more static load when empty.
Maybe you’ll expound and maybe verify that it truly was tread separation and not some form of damage that caused the blow outs.
In my experience, passenger side tires in general are more susceptible to road damage from debris, as most debris ends up on the right shoulder of the road and is easiest hit by the right side tires.
Maybe coincident but our new truck with big neg offset wheels picked up 3 different punctures last winter. 1 RF and 2 RR. 1 was a bolt and the other 2 were pieces of broken tire chains, obviously picked up the only place I drove where chains required and in the snow when they were likely invisible, because I only went over the pass during good snow conditions for riding.
