repairing wheel well after a tire blowout
On my trip to Colorado a couple of weeks ago and I had a tire blow out. It was shredded pretty bad. It tore up the wheel well and the underbelly at the rear of the tire. Was wondering how to fix the damage.
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First picture is from the inside (under the stove), the second one is from the wheelwell side (looking forward)DinTulsa wrote:
I'm just curious, not throwing stones but I'm going to replace my current tires and I'm trying to make an educated choice.
Seems quite a few of us are trying out the new Made in the USA Goodyear Endurance ST trailer tire which replaces the Goodyear Marathon. I've got but one 500 km trip on my set but the trailer definitely tows much better, likely due to the significantly stiffer sidewalls and increased ply rating. :B- Pictures of the damage would be a great help.
- Metal of any kind is a good material for a wheel well. There is always a lot of road detritus that is thrown by the tires into the wheel well area. It's a disservice to TT owners that the mfgs. can't provide a suitable wheel well.
FWIW, my trailer came to me with both plastic wheel wells broken. The driver's side was 80% nonexistent. I could open the kitchen cabinet and see the road. I built an insulated and clad frame. I then lined the wheel well with 404 steel, the same used for garbage trucks and armored Humvees. Road debris or spinning tire belts are really going to have some work getting through that steel. - If you are handy with working on things it is not hard to fabricate patch panels for those areas out of sheet metal.
- I have a 2009 Palomino Stampede S17, tire size is ST205/75R14 was traveling around 60-65 mph. The tire was about a year old.
- What tires were you running? Age, rv size and speed when it happened? I'm just curious, not throwing stones but I'm going to replace my current tires and I'm trying to make an educated choice.
- call your insure.
