Not a good day Saturday

[aruba5er]

Saturday started out great, sunny, no wind and 10 miles down the road I blew a tire. Changed it(easier than waiting for someone) and then decided to return to town to buy another spare. Got the new spare and headed down the road. BAM, another tire. Changed that, and again no good spare, so back to town and another tire. Good to go. Wrong blew another tire. This time 27 miles from town. So I unhooked the fiver and took off the blown and one good? one and returned to town. Ended up buying all five new tires. The story is just because you have LT tires (uniroyal Larado LT225 R75 16 10 ply) does'nt mean you won't have tire trouble. I have close to #800 less load than the tire is rated for or #1600 per axle. The tire was 4 years 10 month old and about 15k for milage.Always covered and in the winter the camper was jacked up so no weight was one the wheels. Go figure. Just what the wallet needed and a couple thousand in body damage.

[romore]

I feel your pain. We blew two tires on our last trip, now we have one new tire, three old and no spare. Sigh. Have to pay down the c/c before we go again.

[stickdog]

Curious to know the manufactured date on the tires and not just how long they were on the trailer.

[rhagfo]

:h
Those Uniroyal Laredo LT225 R75 16 10 ply, look to be rated for 2,680# each. So you saying that 1,880# per tire or a total of 7,500# on the 5er axles.

[kohai]

We just got back from our first trip of the season. Father in law blew a tire on the way back. He told me to keep my mouth shut about my comment before we left that his tire looked low. 🙂 Honestly though, his tires had some visible cracks and I suggested he replace them last year and he plugged on for another couple thousand miles before this one blew. Now he's getting new tires and has to deal with the black marks around the wheel well.

Sounds like you were much better about tire care and still had bad luck.

[Matt_Colie]

Oh Please Good Sir,

What manufacture's name was on those tires?

If they were supposed to be from a reputable company, they may have some interest.

Matt

[oldokie]

Your like the guy that was down and someone said "cheer up things could be worse". So he cheered up,and sure enough things got worse.

[ScottG]

Wow, that's really strange. I take it you didn't pick u a bunch of nails or anything like that? The tires just came apart?
Hopefully there was no damage to your rig.