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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deserteagle56 wrote:mkirsch wrote:
How often do you really have flats anymore? It was one thing back in the nylon bias ply tire days when you could run over a Tic-Tac and puncture a tire.
Tires today are much more resilient and reliable. As long as you don't let the tires get too bald or too old, you'll go decades between flats.
You obviously don't drive very many dirt roads!
If I leave my house and drive due south it's 102.5 miles till I get to the first pavement. True, there aren't as many tire carcasses (ruined by being driven while flat) laying alongside the road as there were 20 years ago, but there are still a few!
and I thought I lived in the sticks....lol
I get to do 1.5 miles on dirt (limestone gravel, sand and mud depending on the weather to get to the pavement. Then there is the beer cans and bottles and assorted cat parts that drop off local cars and trucks because they drive at warp speed on the dirt roads around here....
Funny story. The people across the road have been through at least 6 vehicles to my one because they have one speed... balls out. Unpaved roads ruin vehicles. They get sandblasted underneath and the mud grinds into everything. I never go over 15 mph on the dirt. I see 'em coming, I pull over and let 'em pass. Not in that big of a hurry anyway.
