Tire Age Question For My Neighbor
My neighbor keeping up with me bought a 2008 Fleetwood Southwind, it only has 11,000 miles and has been kept stored in a climate controlled storage and drove to RV park and back, has factory tires and...
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msmith1199 wrote:et2 wrote:msmith1199 wrote:et2 wrote:
It sounds like your neighbor is interested and appreciates the good condition of the MH he's considering. Why jeopardize the whole thing on some (IMHO) very questionable tires. Why take the chance. Replace them and forget about it. If he's already trying to push the envelope on maintenance issues, maybe having a MH isn't the right thing for them.
Mine will be replaced after six years no matter what - sooner if needed.
Why take the chance? I can think of about 4000 good reasons ($$$) to take the chance.
Well they are within the recommended replacement time frame. My wife's life and mine are worth more than a few ($$$). I think there are many people that feel the same way. You push the envelope you push your luck. You can't spend the money if your dead.
If you don't have the money to maintain a MH you probably shouldn't own one. Manuals and maintenance intervals are there for a reason.
If you're going to crash your motorhome and kill everybody inside when a rear tire blows, maybe you shouldn't own one!
In case you didn't know there are more than one tire on MH's anybody owning one knows that too. Are we now strictly limiting blow outs to rear tires? Besides if the rear goes and it's the same age as the fronts chances are it'll go too ( and have and seriously injured or killed the passengers). For what it's worth, I have had multiple tires go bad at the same time - same day ( and aired properly & taken care of). I've read on this forum numerous times about people having more than one tire go on the same trip.
Not sure what point your trying to make but you have a false sense of security. You certainly can roll the dice with your family's lives. But when I get in mine I'm not worrying if I'm pushing the tire life too far.
I wonder what you would do if your inside rear tire blew and took out your air lines to the brakes and maybe sliced through some other stuff like power steering lines or electronics keeping the engine running. Or what if it was the outer and if flew off and hit the family in the car passing you causing them to lose control. Just because you thought you could get 10 years off them?
Good luck to you!
