DRW vs SRW safety, tire blowout
Every time the DRW vs SRW debate starts up, dually owners always point to the safety of having 4 rear wheels in case of a blowout while driving. What I am wondering is has anyone actually experienced ...
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brholt wrote:
We had been running around in our DRW with the camper unloaded. Loaded up the camper and my wife commented the the passenger side rear tires were really bulging. Checked and the inner tire was flat. Unload the camper and replaced the inner tire, which had a nail in it, with the spare.
I have no idea when during the two weeks that the camper was off the tire went flat but, short of checking the tire pressure, I have no idea how you would know.
I bought a tire whacking stick from a truck stop years ago so I could easily do a quick walk around and thunk each tire and listen for a pitch change.
Flat tires are very noticeable and low tires will have a different pitch than a fully inflated tired. Takes only a couple minutes to do and will alert you to an issue before it becomes a major problem.
