Tire puzzler

More To See wrote:
I can't seem to remember seeing a posting from someone having just had their RV tires replaced commenting on what horrible shape the interior of those carcasses were.

You would think that some percentage of those replacing their tires would be horrified at what the shop found inside them and immediately post to RV Net about how lucky they were to have gotten it done before disaster struck.

In fact a common comment seems to be that the tire shops will resell those RV tires for use on commercial vehicles being driven daily.

Let me now state that I'm a 7,000 mile guy and would not think of stretching it out any farther. And I highly recommend that everybody else also puts on new high quality tires at some low mileage that fits their comfort zone.

And don't the shops ever relay to people that they were lucky to have gotten in when they did? Wouldn't that be worth a posting?

One last time: New tires at low mileage is the way to go!

You seem to be hinting that you found a lot of something inside of your changed out tires but didn't really come out and say that or what they found? I've looked in a lot of my changed out tires (my brother had tire machines) and never found anything of note other than a truck tire I blew.

Changing tires every 7,000 miles, really? That could mean I'd be changing them twice a year on my MH. Did you mean 70,000 miles?

As for selling them, sure there are lots of safe uses for them. I have a 50 Ton lowboy that I haul my track rig on in the below signature. Loaded with hunting gear it weighs less than 25,000#. There's eight tires on the lowboy to support the weight plus all of the tires on the tractor. If I ever need another tire on it, I'll go get a used one. The lowboy is all solid steel except the deck which is 4" x 12" timbers. A blown tire can't hurt a single thing on it - after all it's make to drive a CAT up and over the rear end to load it and you drive it over the tires. The lowboy goes 12 miles twice a year at 35MPH.

Bill