โJul-06-2019 05:02 PM
Grand Design Forum wrote:
. Always check your tires! I found a sidewall bubble on one of the brand new Goodyears. Got it swapped the day before we left.
โJul-10-2019 05:04 PM
allen8106 wrote:Well, Goodyear doesn't make the Marathons anymore.
How do we know it was an Endurance? Just because it's Goodyear doesn't mean it's an Endurance.
โJul-10-2019 11:24 AM
โJul-09-2019 07:19 AM
โJul-09-2019 07:01 AM
CapriRacer wrote:
When I was working at a major tire manufacturer, we used to classify tire returns into 3 categories:
1) Initial quality: Anything that exhibited itself almost immediately. This included vibrations, bulges and indentations, and appearance issues. These are all manufacturing related.
This "failure" sounds like one of those - a manufacturing problem.
2) Road hazards - self explanatory
3) Endurance - these occur many miles down the road and are what most everyone means when they are talking about ST failures, China bombs, etc. Endurance failures are design related, not defects!
This "failure" is NOT an endurance failure.
โJul-09-2019 05:47 AM
โJul-08-2019 06:26 PM
โJul-08-2019 10:02 AM
BillyBob Jim wrote:Actually if you read my post's that is exactly what happened to a brand new Carlisle mounted on the back of a 5th wheel, it blew out. Still the law of averages is in your favor.colliehauler wrote:goducks10 wrote:Funny thread, like you said how many thousands of Endurance tires have they sold.GrandpaKip wrote:
Sorta like shark attacks.
OMG, the sharks are coming, the sharks are coming!
58 attacks this year...across the world. Jillions of swimmers.
One bubble out of how many tires?
Oh, the humanity!
LOL, nailed it. 400,000 RV's sold yearly with however many being towables and one guy gets a blow out and it's the end of the world for that tire.
Funny indeed, especially when you do the math.
RVs sold 2018, 500,000 and change.
Around 80+% were towable by the RVIAs own numbers. I'd guess 80% of those were tandem axle. That's 1,800,000 tires put out on the roads in 2018 on towable RVs and that does not include utility trailers.
The kicker is the vast majority of those would be some China Bomb brand el cheapo ST. Goodyear Endurance would be a small percentage.
According to RV forums all ST tires must be junk, unless they're the brand one has on their rig in most cases. Why should Goodyear's Endurance get special treatment. Tires grenade just sitting static and hanging from the carrier mount according to these boards? Funny.
โJul-08-2019 06:31 AM
Huntindog wrote:
Well so far this movie is pretty much an exact rerun of the others.:E
The suspense is killing me.:R
Actually I am hoping for a different ending.:B
โJul-08-2019 02:22 AM
colliehauler wrote:goducks10 wrote:Funny thread, like you said how many thousands of Endurance tires have they sold.GrandpaKip wrote:
Sorta like shark attacks.
OMG, the sharks are coming, the sharks are coming!
58 attacks this year...across the world. Jillions of swimmers.
One bubble out of how many tires?
Oh, the humanity!
LOL, nailed it. 400,000 RV's sold yearly with however many being towables and one guy gets a blow out and it's the end of the world for that tire.
โJul-08-2019 01:44 AM
downtheroad wrote:It is quite possible that the bubble wasn't there when it was mounted.
Brand new tires just installed before your first trip......I'd be asking the knuckle heads at the tire out let how they let a tire with a bubble in it get mounted in the first place.
Seems like it's part of the job to give each new tire a careful inspection as they they get mounted.
โJul-07-2019 04:28 PM
โJul-07-2019 01:20 PM
โJul-07-2019 10:46 AM
goducks10 wrote:Funny thread, like you said how many thousands of Endurance tires have they sold.GrandpaKip wrote:
Sorta like shark attacks.
OMG, the sharks are coming, the sharks are coming!
58 attacks this year...across the world. Jillions of swimmers.
One bubble out of how many tires?
Oh, the humanity!
LOL, nailed it. 400,000 RV's sold yearly with however many being towables and one guy gets a blow out and it's the end of the world for that tire.
โJul-07-2019 10:40 AM