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Another blown tire!

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Topic: Another blown tire!

Posted By: Happy Tripping
Subject: Another blown tire!
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2018 at 5:10am

I believe that I was wrong to recently defend current trailer tire manufacturers. It appears that some tire brands may indeed be very poor.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/RPodOwners/10155621089410808/

It would be very valuable if all of the people who have recently had blown tires would list the brand of tires that was involved so that these can be avoided.

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Posted By: offgrid
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2018 at 5:42am

Happy Tripping, good idea. I am about to buy new tires and could use some up to date data.

Type and cause of failure (if known) would also be helpful, some failures are unavoidable no matter what brand of tire is used.

Could you also note the particulars from this link for those of us who are not Facebook members?

Thanks!

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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft
2015 Rpod 179 - sold

Posted By: Shane
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2018 at 9:12am

Would it be better to use regular road tires and not trailer tires? Just curious.

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ENGINE 55,TRUCK 44,BATALLION 12

Posted By: riotkayak284
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2018 at 9:14am

I recently changed to Goodyear Endurance and they seem to be VERY good tires...

Posted By: crazycoyote
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2018 at 9:39am

I also changed out to Goodyear Endurance tires 10,200 miles ago, and still have good tread left. Great support on the sidewall with these tires.

Posted By: lostagain
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2018 at 9:44am

Shane there is a big difference between car tires and trailer tires. Car tires are built with flexible sidewalls for ride comfort and cornering. That is exactly opposite what you need in a trailer tire. For trailer tires you want very stiff sidewalls to avoid trailer sway.

Look up ST rated tires in the internet and you'll find a lot of articles about the tire needs of a trailer and the dangers posed by using passenger car tires.

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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney
Sonoma 167RB
Our Pod 172
2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost

Posted By: Happy Tripping
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2018 at 12:38pm

Originally posted by offgrid

Could you also note the particulars from this link for those of us who are not Facebook members?

Thanks!

Apparently 2 year old Carlisle radials, (made in China apparently).

Driver doesn't think she ran over anything, and I tend to believe her.

Dunlop is made in America, I believe.

Posted By: offgrid
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2018 at 1:17pm

Thanks Happy Tripping.

Do we happen to know what size and load range they were? Carlisle makes load range C tires along with higher capacity ones. LRC is marginal on rPods, so that likely matters more than country of manufacture.

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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft
2015 Rpod 179 - sold

Posted By: lostagain
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2018 at 1:39pm

Many tire manufactures manufacture in many different countries. The Carlisle's I bought, for example, were made in China, while the next size up was made in the USA. Don't count on tires being made in the USA simply by the brand.

The issue of tire quality depends on the company's quality control standards and procedures and whether they really enforce them. Major brands probably have better quality control, but that is not a sure thing. Off brand cheap tires likely have poorer quality control and use marginal materials, but that is not always the case.

Hitting objects in the road can damage a tire but sometimes it takes several thousand miles before the damage results in a catastrophic tire failure. For example, hitting a hole or a foreign object in the road can damage the bond between the plies of the tire and eventually that tire bruise will lead to a blow out. No one is likely to have a memory of the object being hit as it was months, maybe longer, before the failure. To analogize to our own bodies, we often see a bruise or small cut and have no recollection of any impact or injury, but the proof that it happened is in the result.

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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney
Sonoma 167RB
Our Pod 172
2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost

Posted By: mcarter
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2018 at 3:57pm

+1, you can puncture a tire and not have a blow out for miles. How many times do we stop and check tires? I have an EEZ tire pressure/temp monitoring system, I could have a leak and not know it until a tire blows, and sometimes there is not enough left of the tire to tell what happened.

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Mike Carter
2015 178
" I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability."