Tire problems
Bought a 2010 Jayco 35 ft 5th wheel in 2011. Went on a couple of short trips (10 to 500 miles round trip). Lived in the trailer for a year in our yard. Began fulltiming in Feb. Got 800 miles and one o...
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kedanie wrote:
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ol Bombero-JC wrote:
FE - Honesty is the best policy!
Just "new post" the number of ST tires *YOU* have admitted to having gone through in your "new post"..
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I quit posting information about my personal tire use because of the out of out of context comments with negative connotations.
For the record my trailer tire usage spans 10 years and more than 70,000 trailer miles. My trailer was fitted with OEM tires ST235/80R16D on 6000# axles. The tires were made in the USA and within less than a year they had all failed. That’s 10 tires in the first year. Since then I’ve changed out another three sets. My trailer is setting in storage right now with 3 & ½ year old tires on it and they will all 5 be changed when we head north this summer.
I’ve always stressed that I’ve never had a tire failure that I thought was reportable. For the past 7 years our tires have been ST235/80R16E rated at 3520# at 80 psi. In that period of time we have had three road damaged failures, two of which resulted in both tires being replaced on that side due to possible overloading. The last tire we lost was at highway speed heading south on US-25 in GA. We could hear the tire blow. We had to go about a mile to a pull-off. There was a nice clean 3 & ½” cut in the LH FWD sidewall. Never saw anything in the road. It’s still a mystery.
FastEagle
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Here you go Calvin. That is what you actually admit to using. I would lay odds that the real number is higher.
Keith
My truck has a little over 120,000 miles and it's used 19 tires and those are all mileage tires.
FE
