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ken_white
Sep 28, 2014Explorer
Just returned back from having DRV do some warranty work on my camper and I had an instantaneous blow-out on the way out.
This failure took out the aluminum panel, fender flare, mounting straps, and rubber seal...
Luckily, I was able to get off the highway quickly and my hydraulics and electrical were unscathed.
Got everything repaired at DRV, and it cost me extra time and quite a few $'s, but the trailer looked almost as good as new - still needs some buffing on the fiberglass wall and a decal installed.
On the way home, had another blow-out right at the toll booth, so no damage, and while repairing that, found a big bubble on another tire.
Only had one spare, so I had the drop the trailer on the side of the toll road to find a tire dealer on Saturday and get the bad tire replaced with a Carlisle.
Got back to the trailer and replaced the bubbled tire and used the bubbled tire as a spare - risky but I made it home.
The tires - Power King Tow-Max...
The worse tires ever IMHO.
I am going to get a set of Sailun S637 tires.
EDIT: Tires have the air pressure checked before every trip - 80 psi.
Rarely travel over 65 mph but it does happen sometimes.
Tires only have/had about 1500 miles on them.
This failure took out the aluminum panel, fender flare, mounting straps, and rubber seal...
Luckily, I was able to get off the highway quickly and my hydraulics and electrical were unscathed.
Got everything repaired at DRV, and it cost me extra time and quite a few $'s, but the trailer looked almost as good as new - still needs some buffing on the fiberglass wall and a decal installed.
On the way home, had another blow-out right at the toll booth, so no damage, and while repairing that, found a big bubble on another tire.
Only had one spare, so I had the drop the trailer on the side of the toll road to find a tire dealer on Saturday and get the bad tire replaced with a Carlisle.
Got back to the trailer and replaced the bubbled tire and used the bubbled tire as a spare - risky but I made it home.
The tires - Power King Tow-Max...
The worse tires ever IMHO.
I am going to get a set of Sailun S637 tires.
EDIT: Tires have the air pressure checked before every trip - 80 psi.
Rarely travel over 65 mph but it does happen sometimes.
Tires only have/had about 1500 miles on them.
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