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Re: tires overloaded?
My co-worker just returned from a trip to Big Pine CA for some early season trout fishing. Lost a tire on the SRW Superduty with camper on it. Luckily he felt it as soon as it started to de-laminate, and before the tread started flapping he had it off the road. Truck campers are much higher off the axle than a motorhome, and usually very heavy in the rear so unless a you have a DRW truck, more tire on a SRW is better than trying to cheap out or play the % of safety margin game. An engineered margin is only as good as the manufacturer was that day. Tolerance is always noted, but on a heavy truck with highly mounted mass like a camper pitching, yawing and rolling down the road I don't want to be wondering if my tires were at the bottom of tolerances or the top! Go big as you can or go DRW.596Views0likes0CommentsRe: tires overloaded?
I'm a fan of big safety margin on tires. I live in the Southwest, frequently drive across smoking hot roadways for hours, often with 18' cargo trailer in tow. I was running a few different brands with the highest capacity E rated tires I could find. I was always 'just' at their max with a full loaded camper and trailer tongue weight in total. Then on one trip I could feel a growing vibration. At a fueling stop I was shaking wheels, wiggling front suspension components etc trying figure out where it was coming from. Then I saw it.. the tread on one rear tire was getting scarfed bad and the shape of the tire was changing, the tread was not longer totally flat, but had kinda a radius to the tread. I got on the phone and Googled tire shop that was close, and when they pulled it there were multiple blisters inside the delaminating tire. After that trip I got some 19.5 Vision 181 rims and Double Coin RLB 490 and have at least 75 thousand worry free miles and they ain't done yet, I plan to go to 100k and regardless of condition I will discard haha. I rotate about every 5k miles to keep them nice and flat, run 8oz of beads in each for balance and the only thing I fear is throwing my back out every time I rotate them!480Views0likes0Comments
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