Speaking of tires and truck campers..........
We had our first truck flat while hauling our camper back in July while driving thru Memphis on our way to Colorado. The tire didn't really go flat, it had a belt separate and it started bouncing/sha...
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To do that sort of damage to a ZP tire it was either severely damaged in the original event causing loss of air (i.e. major hit to a pothole and cut the sidewall) or it was run more than just a few miles at moderate speed.
ZP tires require the car to have a TPMS system and once the warning goes off you do have to reduce speed. I own a 2016 Corvette Z06 with zero pressure capable tires and although I have never had a flat many people have and I have yet to see a report of one shredding like that picture. The only question is whether they have been run hard enough without air pressure that they should be replaced and it is quite possible that failed tire in the photo has been flat more than once and was abused while flat.
When the low pressure warning is tripped car speed should be limited to 50 MPH and not driven over 50 miles. Also once air pressure is lost the tire is far more susceptible to damage from road hazards so avoiding potholes is more important than ever.
The biggest complaint I have seen about runflat tires is they compromise ride quality because of their construction that is needed to support the vehicle when tire pressure is lost. Any tire can disintegrate but that is much more likely to happen with a regular tire once pressure is lost, something people towing trailers experience all too often if they ignore the change in characteristics of their towed load and run the tire to the point of catastrophic failure.
ZP tires require the car to have a TPMS system and once the warning goes off you do have to reduce speed. I own a 2016 Corvette Z06 with zero pressure capable tires and although I have never had a flat many people have and I have yet to see a report of one shredding like that picture. The only question is whether they have been run hard enough without air pressure that they should be replaced and it is quite possible that failed tire in the photo has been flat more than once and was abused while flat.
When the low pressure warning is tripped car speed should be limited to 50 MPH and not driven over 50 miles. Also once air pressure is lost the tire is far more susceptible to damage from road hazards so avoiding potholes is more important than ever.
The biggest complaint I have seen about runflat tires is they compromise ride quality because of their construction that is needed to support the vehicle when tire pressure is lost. Any tire can disintegrate but that is much more likely to happen with a regular tire once pressure is lost, something people towing trailers experience all too often if they ignore the change in characteristics of their towed load and run the tire to the point of catastrophic failure.
