Tire Replacement

1fanman wrote:
Okay folks, I have made arrangements to have the tires replaced as soon as I get Betsy out of the barn. I do appreciate all the replies to my concerns. Will keep an eye on the batteries as well. Thanks again and lets keep them between the ditches. 1Fanman/AKA Del

Good decision. Don't have to redo the fuel tank as I had to after a tire peeled!

Discussing the "how long you should use your what brand of tires" subject is always fun. Battery answers are way too straight forward, it/they work or not. Generally they are easy to find and a failure results in an uncomfortable night or two not the risk of death and the certainty of damage.

xctraveler wrote:

mike brez wrote:

xctraveler wrote:
Our second coach came with two 6V Trojan 105s which with good care and never discharged below 50% lasted 7 years. We replaced them, even though we were planning on trading the coach, with new Trojan 105s when we found we could no longer make it through the night with furnace and CPAP and voltage above 11.9 in the morning. No sense pushing our luck. New owner got 1 year old batteries.

I thought we were talking tires. :h

I figured we had beat the tire side of the question to death and thought a response to his question about batteries deserved some attention too. Not off topic, quite.

WTF guess I will blame it on a senior moment. I read the post and missed the whole battery thing. :S

Okay folks, I have made arrangements to have the tires replaced as soon as I get Betsy out of the barn. I do appreciate all the replies to my concerns. Will keep an eye on the batteries as well. Thanks again and lets keep them between the ditches. 1Fanman/AKA Del

mike brez wrote:

xctraveler wrote:
Our second coach came with two 6V Trojan 105s which with good care and never discharged below 50% lasted 7 years. We replaced them, even though we were planning on trading the coach, with new Trojan 105s when we found we could no longer make it through the night with furnace and CPAP and voltage above 11.9 in the morning. No sense pushing our luck. New owner got 1 year old batteries.

I thought we were talking tires. :h

I figured we had beat the tire side of the question to death and thought a response to his question about batteries deserved some attention too. Not off topic, quite.

Mike brez, I think the OP was asking about both tires and batteries whether he should replace them.

xctraveler wrote:
Our second coach came with two 6V Trojan 105s which with good care and never discharged below 50% lasted 7 years. We replaced them, even though we were planning on trading the coach, with new Trojan 105s when we found we could no longer make it through the night with furnace and CPAP and voltage above 11.9 in the morning. No sense pushing our luck. New owner got 1 year old batteries.

I thought we were talking tires. :h

Our second coach came with two 6V Trojan 105s which with good care and never discharged below 50% lasted 7 years. We replaced them, even though we were planning on trading the coach, with new Trojan 105s when we found we could no longer make it through the night with furnace and CPAP and voltage above 11.9 in the morning. No sense pushing our luck. New owner got 1 year old batteries.

We are getting new Michelins on Wednesday. Used the FMCA Michelin Advantage Program and saved $110 a tire. Did the whole process right in the tire shop office in about 5 minutes. Replaced six Goodyear tires and I will never own Goodyear tires again. Be safe and If you don't know how old your tires are, go check as soon as you can. Poorly maintained machines can hurt you and cause thousands of dollars of damage. Be safe!

Tires are usually changed every five years. On a motor home you will never wear out the tread. What happens the tire starts to get small side wall cracks and could blow up. I assume your coach is a gasoline motorhome, so the tires are not that expensive. You probably have 19.5 inch tires. Not worth blowing a tire and doing lots of damage to the fender well which would cost you thousands of dollars. The chassis batteries if they are the original and also the house batteries they are about to go out on you. I suggest changing them out also. No need getting stranded in some remote area if you do much traveling. Batteries vary as to how long they are going to last. On my diesel house batteries average five years. My chassis batteries vary. The original set lasted three years which were Allstate sealed batteries. So I bought a second set at Camper World two for three hundred plus installed and they only lasted three years. So the third set I bought them at Napa and they were also heavy duty sealed batteries but for a lot less then Camper World. Those Napa batteries have been in there now six years and are still going strong. But my point is that Napa sells a pretty good heavy duty battery for a lot less then Camper World.

Good luck on what ever you decide.