LT tires on your TT? Let the fight begin
The long Honeymoon just released a blog entry advocating using LT tires not ST. I have to admit I don't even know what brand of tires my TT has on it. They have been problem free. But I have had plent...
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JIMNLIN wrote:
I've seen posts where the OP says he lost a complete tread on one of his trailers tires and his TPS told him nothing....just the usual people passing and honking and waving.
Just last summer (98-100 outside temps) I lost a complete tread on a 10 year old 16" E tire with approx 28k miles on my 10k car hauler. I had a job about 77 miles out and was coming home when the carcass finally blew 3 miles from the barn. I didn't know anything was wrong.
I tried pulling the ramps out. There the complete tread was wedged in tight. I'm close to 80 and boy was it hot on that black oil and chip county road. A nice young man stopped and between both of us got the ramp out.
The next day Discount Tires fixed me up with 4 new ones. The others showed inside separation issues.
TPMS systems are nice but not a 100 percent fix for all situations. Now if I was hauling on the road again running 70k miles a year then I would use a TPMS on truck and trailer.
yup, a TPMS will help and likely save you from a catastrophy if you pick up a nail or something that gives a slow enough leak to give you time to react. It won't save you from something that causes a rapid air loss. But then the times it has "saved" me is exactly the first case, twice I picked up a nail and it gave me enough warning to avoid a blowout. Both with pressure warning and also an increase in temperature.
