Blown Tires
Just returned from Overland Expo in North Carolina. On the way down from Michigan we saw six fifth wheel trailers on various parts of I75 and I40 with blown tires. Each one of them had significant d...
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WTP-GC wrote:
Well...another tire blowout thread!!!
Blowouts come from using junk tires...or old tires...or overloaded tires...or mis-aligned axles...or under-inflated tires...or over-inflated tires...or punctured tires...or new tires...or chinese tires...or USA tires...or tires going to fast...or just about any tire!!
Remember: CHINESE TRAILER TIRES ARE THE VAST MAJORITY.
See someone on the side of the road with a blown-out china-bomb, well they're figuratively speaking one in a million users. See someone with a blown-out US made tire, they're like one in a hundred. If you see more china-bomb blowouts, well that's because there's simply more of them.
Meanwhile, some junk peddler will be seen hauling his raggedy-old utility trailer loaded at twice the capacity up the interstate at 70 MPH on tires that look like just got drug out of the bushes and thrown on a set of rusty rims. No spare tire, no jacks, no nothing...but he'll get to where he's going just fine.
I make no assumptions when I see someone with a blow out.
HALALUAH
It's a case of RVFCOTD lol.
RV Forum Obsessive Compulsive Tire Disorder.
Out of the 380000 or so towables RVs sold last year alone most came with Chinese made ST tires. Out of those 380000 owners the vast majority have never participated in an online RV forum, nor have had a tire issue with their Chinese OEM provided tires.
Keep them aired up and look at them once in awhile, stay off of the road shoulders which are nothing more than debris fields, and keep your eyes open while towing while doing so at a reasonable speed.
Blowout? Horseshit! 99% user error IMO.
