Class A Tire Blow and Roll-over

turbojimmy wrote:

Executive wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
No one knows how one would react to a motorhome blowout until you've been through it. Thankfully, very few experience it.

I simply pulled to the shoulder and called Coach Net. Then proceeded to use rubbing compound and wax to remove the rubber scuffs off the side of the rig while waiting for the tow truck.....:B:B....Dennis

What I worry about most on my "vintage" rig is the height of the sidewalls on the 19.5 rim/tire combo. If one were to blow it would drop significantly which wouldn't be so bad in the back, but in the front I could see how it could cause a loss of control. Hopefully I'll never find out.

As I posted earlier, I had a blow-out on my LF at 65 on an interstate. It did pull sharply to the left. I was able to correct enough to keep it in my lane or maybe on the center line between lanes. The trickiest part was not over correcting and putting it into the ditch on the right side of the road. With the LF tire down, and my steering correction to the right, the MH was leaning to the left. It would have been real easy to have over corrected and either flipped the MH or put it in the ditch.

I hope you don't ever find out as it could go bad if your reflexes are poor or if you have little experience correcting skidding vehicles. In my youth, I used to love to dirt track around curves on gravel roads and ran some sports car gymkhanas. :B

When I was a very young man United Parcel Service put me thru there driving school. And, I went thru a driving school while working for Food Services of America (Smith System Driving School), both of these schools recommend if you have a blow out to take your foot off the throttle pedal hold the steering very firmly and try to get off the roadway! Both schools said not to apply pressure to your brakes when this happens. I drove over the road 44-1/4 years and logged 4 million miles and this practice worked for me a time or two!

Executive wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
No one knows how one would react to a motorhome blowout until you've been through it. Thankfully, very few experience it.

I simply pulled to the shoulder and called Coach Net. Then proceeded to use rubbing compound and wax to remove the rubber scuffs off the side of the rig while waiting for the tow truck.....:B:B....Dennis

What I worry about most on my "vintage" rig is the height of the sidewalls on the 19.5 rim/tire combo. If one were to blow it would drop significantly which wouldn't be so bad in the back, but in the front I could see how it could cause a loss of control. Hopefully I'll never find out.

2gypsies wrote:
No one knows how one would react to a motorhome blowout until you've been through it. Thankfully, very few experience it.

I simply pulled to the shoulder and called Coach Net. Then proceeded to use rubbing compound and wax to remove the rubber scuffs off the side of the rig while waiting for the tow truck.....:B:B....Dennis

No one knows how one would react to a motorhome blowout until you've been through it. Thankfully, very few experience it.

Sorry to bring this up again, but I thought it was interesting that Gas Monkey Garage posted this video up on Facebook (they're click ****** that get paid for sharing videos just like other "celebrities"). I commented on the video and the daughter-in-law of the driver (or so she claims) replied with:

- He was going 67 MPH in a 70 MPH zone, as verified by the GPS in the camera of the truck he was passing (too fast, IMO, but I didn't debate it with her)
- Driver had 40-years experience driving big rigs, had a CDL
- The cable barrier flipped the rig over
- It did indeed slide across all the lanes of the opposite side of the highway
- Driver sustained cuts and bruises, passenger was partially ejected through the front windshield and broke their collar bone

rockhillmanor wrote:

Kayteg1 wrote:
It keeps amazing me how "old farts" will keep on selling their agendas regardless posted facts. ...

Other than that being a derogatory comment not needed on this forum. :R

You have NO idea how old a forum member is. Nor would it make any difference.

He wasn't talking to anybody anyway since nobody said what he claimed.

Kayteg1 wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
It's good for all of us to freshen our minds on what to do when a blowout occurs.

It makes no difference regarding speed, age, health, skill or whatever you chose to blame the driver for...a blowout needs to be handled properly in a RV or in a car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkwOE1yKY5c

This is one of those things that "Ain't going to happen" beside the fact the theory is questionable, just like Michelin theory of putting better tires on rear axle.
Years ago I was practicing ice driving.
This is one of those situation where you need to work against your human instincts. At the moment when you want to go left, you need to steer right.
Similar with scuba diving, when you have to work your instincts against grasping for air when you need it - those things take long hours of training to become natural reaction.
Do you have 200 tires to spare?

Here is the solution...14 second YouTube video

I guess like anti-lock brakes compensating for our natural reaction to lock up the brakes, MHs need something that automatically floors it when you get a blowout, because that is probably going to be the last thing my instincts are going to let me do.

2gypsies wrote:
It's good for all of us to freshen our minds on what to do when a blowout occurs.

It makes no difference regarding speed, age, health, skill or whatever you chose to blame the driver for...a blowout needs to be handled properly in a RV or in a car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkwOE1yKY5c

This is one of those things that "Ain't going to happen" beside the fact the theory is questionable, just like Michelin theory of putting better tires on rear axle.
Years ago I was practicing ice driving.
This is one of those situation where you need to work against your human instincts. At the moment when you want to go left, you need to steer right.
Similar with scuba diving, when you have to work your instincts against grasping for air when you need it - those things take long hours of training to become natural reaction.
Do you have 200 tires to spare?