valhalla360
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Unless it was massively overinflated in subfreezing temperatures and then taken immediately to 100F+ temps...not buying that an unmounted spare tire just exploded unless there was more to the story. Was it chaffing against a piece of metal or something?
What were the CAT scale numbers, inflation and actual age/miles on the ones that blew while under load?
Not saying there aren't different qualities of tires but if it sounds unbelievable, most of the time it is.
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mt1729
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You can buy it or not but I've had two tires blow out over the years that I was using as spares. They were both good looking tires. They were Good Year marathons and neither one was on the ground and neither one had any discernible flaws. They also had the right amount of air pressure. It happens. I was in the house when the 2nd one blew. I heard a big bang went out and there was pieces of my spare tire cover all over and a big hole in the tire.
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Michelle.S
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The Marathons were BAD, if on a new camper you would be lucky to get it home before you had a blow-out.
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Lantley
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Ultimately that is the problem! How can a brand new camper with brand new tires possibly need all of its' tires replaced?
An experienced RV'er knows they send them out brand new from the factory with with junk tires.
A rookie RV'er finds out the hard way.
Unfortunately once upon a time we were all rookies.
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Thermoguy
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Michelle.S wrote:The Marathons were BAD, if on a new camper you would be lucky to get it home before you had a blow-out.
My 5th Wheel had Marathon tires when I bought it. They were 6 years old when they went. But, when they went, they went... One blew, 2 were out of round, the others were fine but replaced when I replaced everything.
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The rule of thumb for trailer tires is no more than 5 years to replace. With the cheap ST ones that were used from 2015 to 2020 I would say 4 years. Thats when I replaced mine with a set of Maxxis tires. They are not LT but much better than the China bombs that came with the trailer. Age is a bigger factor than milage IMHO.
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