For those that have had a blowout when towing
I passed three travel trailers along the highway yesterday with blowouts on my way home from a weeks camping. I'm pretty diligent about checking my air pressure but I was wondering what was your fi...
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I had one this last Summer on my 5er. I had no indication anything happened. I noticed smoke coming from behind the trailer. I thought the vehicle behind us was overheating. We were on an interstate.
It then dawned on me that the smoke was coming from MY trailer (passenger side). It just didn't register yet, but got on the shoulder as quick as possible. Minimal damage, but the tire was shredded and wrapped around itself. Put a small dent in the aluminum and blew melted rubber spots over everything, which easily cleaned off later.
As far as any indication there was a problem... no, absolutely not. There was no difference in handling. No noise, no thunder claps, no pulling one direction or another. The trailer just tooled right along blowing smoke like a freight train.
Vision of smoke, that was my indicator something was wrong.
It then dawned on me that the smoke was coming from MY trailer (passenger side). It just didn't register yet, but got on the shoulder as quick as possible. Minimal damage, but the tire was shredded and wrapped around itself. Put a small dent in the aluminum and blew melted rubber spots over everything, which easily cleaned off later.
As far as any indication there was a problem... no, absolutely not. There was no difference in handling. No noise, no thunder claps, no pulling one direction or another. The trailer just tooled right along blowing smoke like a freight train.
Vision of smoke, that was my indicator something was wrong.
