Why do I keep blowing out tires on my truck?

[mileshuff]

The last three sets of tires on my 2007 Ram 2500 have had one tire blow out. Always the same, passenger side rear. Have not weighed my trailer but specs are 7,000 dry, GVWR 10,500, pin weight 1,500. Probably closer to 1,800 to 2,000 lb pin weight. I tow with all tanks empty. I keep rear tires at 80 PSI checked before every trip.

First two sets were Michelin LTX MS and MS2. Third set was Yokahama YK-HTX. All blow outs occurred around 3-4 years with 25-30,000 miles on them. Tons of tread left. Have new set #4 on now, Michelin Defender LTS MS.

Why can't I get more than 3 years and 25,000 miles on my truck tires?

[Cummins12V98]

time2roll wrote:

Thunderbolt wrote:
I think I know why we haven't heard from the OP. Most likely the online bickering back and forth. 🙂

I am thinking OP is down at the Goodyear store getting real tires put on 😉

That and then most likely doing a full AMZ/OIL fluid change along with installing a B&W hitch.

[Devo_the_dog]

Grit dog wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
"Not sure where you are coming from on this"

He has nothing better to do and we are the chosen ones to receive his gifts in writing.

If we drove old V10 Fords though, he’d be our besty!

LOL.

Yes. I own a Ford V10, other cars and still a Ram. The deals to buy a Ford don't exist yet. So, the Ram is parked and I'm negotiating selling prices. I've got time and am in no rush.

The only problem the two of you have is that I'm not a part of the dodge cult. If I kept the Ram, kept quiet and dealt with the FCA and dealership ****, you'd be singing a different tune. But, I'm not braindead and won't accept a bad product that won't be fixed by the manufacture. For some reason, that's a foreign thought process to the two of you. Braindead people don't surprise me at all. Bye-don idiots just exist.

[pianotuna]

My local Goodyear dealer suggested Toyo to me. I've had excellent service from them.

[time2roll]

Thunderbolt wrote:
I think I know why we haven't heard from the OP. Most likely the online bickering back and forth. 🙂

I am thinking OP is down at the Goodyear store getting real tires put on 😉

[Thunderbolt]

I think I know why we haven't heard from the OP. Most likely the online bickering back and forth. 🙂

[Grit_dog]

Cummins12V98 wrote:
"Not sure where you are coming from on this"

He has nothing better to do and we are the chosen ones to receive his gifts in writing.

If we drove old V10 Fords though, he’d be our besty!

[Cummins12V98]

"Not sure where you are coming from on this"

He has nothing better to do and we are the chosen ones to receive his gifts in writing.

[Grit_dog]

Devo the dog wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
Nothing from the OP in a couple days, wonder how he's faring. I'd be curious to hear if he found anything.

Grit dog and 12V have spoken and the question has been answered. LOL.

And your genius answer was that he grossly over filled 1 of 4 tires with a bad pressure gauge? Lol
Not sure where you are coming from on this, but having a decent collection of tire gauges, I’ve compared some from time to time and whether they were new, old, cheap or expensive, they always seemed to run within a few psi of each other.

You’re one of those folks who doesn’t have the answer (None of us do here and the OP isn’t handing out more bread crumbs for you to salivate over.), but gets butt hurt when someone doesn’t agree with you.

And if you want to talk actual experience, I’ve been over filling truck tires (mostly a truck on half tons with cheap OE tires) to match a load above their weight rating for a long time and many miles on many trucks. Like 60psi in a 44psi tire to take the squishy out of it. OP over inflating a bit is not a likely cause.
But then again, some folks cannot write anything off as a coincidence and are too dense to understand things like passenger side tires are more susceptible to damage in general.

[Devo_the_dog]

fj12ryder wrote:
Nothing from the OP in a couple days, wonder how he's faring. I'd be curious to hear if he found anything.

Grit dog and 12V have spoken and the question has been answered. LOL.

[fj12ryder]

Nothing from the OP in a couple days, wonder how he's faring. I'd be curious to hear if he found anything.

[Cummins12V98]

Over the time of three tires a set of pads WILL be shot and steel to steel if dragging. That is simply the truth.

[Grit_dog]

Devo the dog wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

joshuajim wrote:
Possible that the RR brake Is “hanging” and causing excessive heat in the tire.

If so the pads would be gone and backing plates would be gouging the rotors.

Leave it up to 12V to only think of extremes: The calipers are either floating on the rotors or gouging the rotors, and nothing else. LOL. Typical knuckledragger.

If the caliper is not releasing the pad completely and it's always riding the rotor, it'll generate heat and wear a little more than the rest. That's possible and it hasn't been ruled out, except by 12V and Gritdog.

I think JRscooby is on to something: Right turns and rubbing curbs is also a possibility.

BTW, how much over inflated will a tire need to be to do damage? In this case, it's unknown. It's still unknown if the tire pressure gage is accurate, so it's difficult to answer. There are too many variables. The only consistant items are three blowouts on the same tire at approximately the same mileage, and gritdog and 12V thinking they know everything.

With all due respect, OP never said if he did or didn't rotate his tires. 3 sets of tires over 9-12 years and 75-90k miles (I think he said 25-30k on each set before blowout), with even marginal tire rotation practices would have made it very unlikely that the same tire was in that position it's entire life.
Although the "can't change rotation" knuckledraggers could argue that that tire should have only gone front to back on the same side and that's a very likely sequence with typical tire wear.
But at the same time, the right rear, if any, tends to wear quicker than the other tires unless you drive like a complete vegetable, which would have that tire off the RR and somewhere else in a proper rotation.

And 75-90k miles of brakes hanging up even marginally, WOULD toast those brake pads long before the third or maybe even the second tire was in play. But let's say for your sake that it was hanging up just a teensy weensy bit. Then it wouldn't have made much heat.


But to grasp at all the straws, his gauge (because I'm sure it was the same one for 10 year...lol) must have been waaaay off to blow the guts out of the tire. But he must only uses THAT gauge on THAT tire and uses other gauges on other tires so he only blew one tire to kingdom come 3 times over and not the other three......

[Devo_the_dog]

Cummins12V98 wrote:

joshuajim wrote:
Possible that the RR brake Is “hanging” and causing excessive heat in the tire.

If so the pads would be gone and backing plates would be gouging the rotors.

Leave it up to 12V to only think of extremes: The calipers are either floating on the rotors or gouging the rotors, and nothing else. LOL. Typical knuckledragger.

If the caliper is not releasing the pad completely and it's always riding the rotor, it'll generate heat and wear a little more than the rest. That's possible and it hasn't been ruled out, except by 12V and Gritdog.

I think JRscooby is on to something: Right turns and rubbing curbs is also a possibility.

BTW, how much over inflated will a tire need to be to do damage? In this case, it's unknown. It's still unknown if the tire pressure gage is accurate, so it's difficult to answer. There are too many variables. The only consistant items are three blowouts on the same tire at approximately the same mileage, and gritdog and 12V thinking they know everything.

[Grit_dog]

Devo the dog wrote:

BTW, now that you pointed out that my post is useless and you're surprised that I didn't attribute the problem because it's a Chrysler product, you can never again call yourself unbiased and level headed.

Huh??

1 word. Meds.

You need some.

[Wishin]

Grit dog wrote:

pitch wrote:
Most tires these days are directional. Front to rear is the only rotation.

Considering we're on a RV forum and the topic is about trucks and RVs, I cannot think of a single truck/RV tire that is directional....
I'm sure one of the rvnetters will come up with an example and claim I'm wrong, because likely one exists, but I'd like to see "most" of the directional truck tires you're talking about.

Even car tires are less than 50%? I'd say directional. There are even plenty of performance tires that aren't directional. Have 2 performance cars now both with low pro Z rated tires. Neither are directional.

BTW, "directional" tires are really of no practical advantage except in ultra high performance applications.

Agreed, directional tires make up a pretty small % of the market unless you're shopping for winter tires. All my winter tires for all 4 of my vehicles are directional (including my Suburban).