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Old 10-22-2023, 12:04 PM   #1
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Tire Delamination and Twisted Metal

After 6 weeks on the road (Oregon/Montana) had a tire come apart in Idaho, took out the passenger side wheel well assembly. Put the spare on, spent the night in Twin Falls and put on a complete set of 10 plys to replace the Thailand bombs.
Trying to get parts from WB, so far they have been very responsive.
Could have been worse, trailer barely wobbled, scared the rv behind me as tires pieces flew off.
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Old 10-22-2023, 01:09 PM   #2
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Do you have any more info on what caused the tire to blow? Anything you know you hit on the road and found in the tire or just loss of air over time that caused overheating?

This looks very much like what finally caused my brother to go for the tire pressure monitor as it saves so much extra.
In their case it got much worse as the tire went off on the inside of the wheel and wrapped up a bunch of things like brake line, etc. before they got stopped!

They also had major side damage but the bigger problem was getting the running gear back in shape so they could move on.
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Old 10-22-2023, 01:28 PM   #3
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Tire never lost pressure..still at 80psi. Tread delaminted from the core.
Tires had less than 6k miles.

Didn't want to chance another failure, replaced the remaining tires.
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Old 10-22-2023, 04:02 PM   #4
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Well, that does put it over into a different ballgame. Sounds like time to get some legal advise on warranty for damages?
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Old 10-23-2023, 01:02 AM   #5
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Get a pro trailer shop to check the axle for rolling accuracy. Especially if your rig is equipped with a dual torsion axle, check for even distance on the axle arm drops when the axles are off the ground by jacking the entire rig up with multiple jack stands on a completely level surface. The down angles of the individual down arms should not be out of spec otherwise the tires will not be loading equally from the internal rubber springs. Worn out torsion axles are certainly not a good thing if they put unequal loading on the tires.

If you have a spring setup then there are easy fixes for evening out the differences between loading while moving down the road at speed with inter axle connector units like this one. https://www.etrailer.com/dept-pg-Tra...pt-Camper.aspx

Before one condemns a tire as being defective it is always a good idea to look at the running gear very carefully these days. IMO

All my best getting your rig into top condition for safer usage at highway speeds.
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