Lance 1191

TTBeachBum wrote:

Buzzcut1 wrote:
as someone with a large Lance on a SRW . you better rethink your tire set up. I am just under the 7500 pound load limit of my rear tires and I did have a catastrophic blow out. I am switching to 19.5 and a combined 9800 pound tire load capacity for the rear tires

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How was your blow out catastrophic? Did you flip? Since I will be driving it sometimes (seemed easier than towing 28'), I like to hear everyone's experiences. My friend has an older version of this model and he almost flipped because someone cut him off at highway speed' some how it got unstable. But thank God it he was able to stablize it. His unit sits on a dually. So he has me sensitive to it being top heavy. Anyone know what the clearance is? I am always checking clearance even when we are not in route to camp.

Tread separation at Freeway speed followed by explosive tire disintegration which did $4500 worth of body damage, ripped out the lines to the aibags which maginified the weight drop and control loss to the left rear corner causing a severe fishtail. We probably would have rolled if it had not been for the bi annual Emergency Vehicle Operations Course that my old fire department required that I take which involved driving overloaded top heavy vehicles to the edge of disaster. It took everything i had to hold it together and bring it to a safe stop over a half mile down the road