Showing posts with label RV Maintenance and Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RV Maintenance and Tips. Show all posts

Monday, April 15, 2019

RV Trailer Tires, CHINA BOMBS?

I personally had two RV Trailers, a 26-foot trailer, and a 30-foot 5th wheel and experienced repeated blow-outs on both. It was very troubling as I am very fussy about checking and maintaining tire pressures and trailer loading including weighing the trailers to be sure I was within load limits. The worse part is none of the blow-outs occurred in a convenient place. One was in the middle of a mile long bridge and pouring rain. I limped to the end of the bridge where I could pull over to change the tire. Needless to say, the shredded tire flopping around destroyed my plastic wheel-well trim. My towing speed I try to hold 60-62 mph (generally the speed of the traffic in the right lane) and limit the length of travel to about 100 miles a day. I’m not alone with tire failures of RV’s. If I buy another trailer the first thing I will change will be the tires. I’ll get rid of the 15-inch and put on 16-inch light truck wheels and tires.

See the link below for the video for why the tire size change:

“Why we switched from ST (Special Trailer) tires to LT (Light Truck) tires”.