Tire blows - great reason to have a dually

[azdryheat]

We were returning from San Diego this afternoon when the inside dually let go on Interstate 8. Wife was driving and didn't realize it was a tire issue; she only heard a loud rumbling. She said the truck handled fine with the blown tire.

All the truck and trailer tires looked fine and I didn't find the blown tire until I thumped on each one. At this point I haven't examined the tire but did see a large slice of sidewall missing from the inside-facing side.

Glad we have a dually as things could have been drastically different with a SRW. I imagine the blown tire would have dropped onto the rim and perhaps a handling issue would have ensued with 18k of trailer (3,500 on the pin).

[Old-Biscuit]

Not everything requires a dually

Even having a flat.

[transamz9]

blofgren wrote:

transamz9 wrote:

blofgren wrote:

mkirsch wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Not ALL safe towing requires a dually

No one said it did.

However there is something to be said for having an extra inflated tire to help you carry and control the load when one goes flat, overloaded or not, rather than no tire at all.

Exactly my way of thinking. I would not want to blow a rear tire on a SRW truck with 4k lbs of pin weight!

The other advantages to a dually are the ability to run a lower pressure giving the truck a better ride, much cooler tire temps in hot weather, and MUCH less tire wear when towing.

I have blown a rear tire loaded. You know what I did? I pulled over to the side of the road and changed the tire and went on my way.

Running a dually's air pressure lower only gives you a better ride than when you have the dually's tires air to max. It don't give you a better ride than a SRW.

"MUCH less tire wear" ? Really? I have ocean front property in Arizona to sell you. You better hope you are getting 160,000+ miles out of your dually tires. LOL

Have you ever owned a dually?

Drive one about 50,000 miles a year every year. My company service truck is a F350.

Here's the last one I personally owned. Notice the 2500 sitting behind it. I still have the 2500 just to let you know which one served me the best......

[FlatBroke]

If the good tire wasn't overloaded maybe you don't need a dually

[blofgren]

transamz9 wrote:

blofgren wrote:

mkirsch wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Not ALL safe towing requires a dually

No one said it did.

However there is something to be said for having an extra inflated tire to help you carry and control the load when one goes flat, overloaded or not, rather than no tire at all.

Exactly my way of thinking. I would not want to blow a rear tire on a SRW truck with 4k lbs of pin weight!

The other advantages to a dually are the ability to run a lower pressure giving the truck a better ride, much cooler tire temps in hot weather, and MUCH less tire wear when towing.

I have blown a rear tire loaded. You know what I did? I pulled over to the side of the road and changed the tire and went on my way.

Running a dually's air pressure lower only gives you a better ride than when you have the dually's tires air to max. It don't give you a better ride than a SRW.

"MUCH less tire wear" ? Really? I have ocean front property in Arizona to sell you. You better hope you are getting 160,000+ miles out of your dually tires. LOL

Have you ever owned a dually?

[transamz9]

blofgren wrote:

mkirsch wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Not ALL safe towing requires a dually

No one said it did.

However there is something to be said for having an extra inflated tire to help you carry and control the load when one goes flat, overloaded or not, rather than no tire at all.

Exactly my way of thinking. I would not want to blow a rear tire on a SRW truck with 4k lbs of pin weight!

The other advantages to a dually are the ability to run a lower pressure giving the truck a better ride, much cooler tire temps in hot weather, and MUCH less tire wear when towing.

I have blown a rear tire loaded. You know what I did? I pulled over to the side of the road and changed the tire and went on my way.

Running a dually's air pressure lower only gives you a better ride than when you have the dually's tires air to max. It don't give you a better ride than a SRW.

"MUCH less tire wear" ? Really? I have ocean front property in Arizona to sell you. You better hope you are getting 160,000+ miles out of your dually tires. LOL

[kennethwooster]

Went to DRW a couple of years ago. Truck is used as daily driver as well as 5th wheel puller. I love the truck and it's stability.

[RCMAN46]

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
LMAO so this morning I go out to the truck to go home from work and low a behold what do I find on the dash after starting it.
Yep this


This comes up along with a chime that goes off about every thrity seconds for about ten minutes :M

What was the pressures on your outer duals?

[blofgren]

mkirsch wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Not ALL safe towing requires a dually

No one said it did.

However there is something to be said for having an extra inflated tire to help you carry and control the load when one goes flat, overloaded or not, rather than no tire at all.

Exactly my way of thinking. I would not want to blow a rear tire on a SRW truck with 4k lbs of pin weight!

The other advantages to a dually are the ability to run a lower pressure giving the truck a better ride, much cooler tire temps in hot weather, and MUCH less tire wear when towing.

[Cummins12V98]

Me Again wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

RAS43 wrote:

blofgren wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Training wheel envy as usual.

Exactly. It always amazes me with the bunk people come up with to justify towing over their truck's ratings. :R

And it amazes me how many people automatically believe someone is overloaded because they don't t have the same setup as theirs. I have weight tickets, do you? And I tow doubles too!

I may need a Dually.

The extra dual tires you need are on the TRAILER! Chris

HA. That's words of wisdom right there.

[mkirsch]

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Not ALL safe towing requires a dually

No one said it did.

However there is something to be said for having an extra inflated tire to help you carry and control the load when one goes flat, overloaded or not, rather than no tire at all.

[Grit_dog]

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
LMAO so this morning I go out to the truck to go home from work and low a behold what do I find on the dash after starting it.
Yep this


This comes up along with a chime that goes off about every thrity seconds for about ten minutes :M

Soooo annoying. i know.
I'm good with the pressure being displayed and even cool with it warning of low pressure, but one should have some control over what "low" is. And now dealers can't even re program tpms thresh holds.
Love that feature on my wife's car. No spare, so it's convienent to just check tire pressures before a road trip without having to break out the......gasp......pressure gauge.

[1jeep]

That's what I find sad about ford, even my Kawasaki sport tourer shows the actual tire pressure for both.

Cold weather is here tire pressure does drop, ive already had to add some for the bike.

[4x4ord]

The TPMS on the Ford was too cheap to give pressure readouts. The light comes on to tell you one tire is low but you need a pressure gauge and have to go on a witch hunt...to find witch tire. (Maybe Halloween is affecting my brain)

[Perrysburg_Dodg]

LMAO so this morning I go out to the truck to go home from work and low a behold what do I find on the dash after starting it.
Yep this


This comes up along with a chime that goes off about every thrity seconds for about ten minutes :M

[1jeep]

my truck was not offered with TPM, gvwr is 14k, apparently ford found a way to save a few bucks on a $74000 truck, but my fathers gmc DRW doesn't have them either, so I give credit to ram for keeping them on their drw if that is true.