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Just came home from a 4400 mile, three week trip to Oshkosh and Sturgis. Day one - three hours into the trip blew my back curb side tire on the Momentum. The conditions: wt. 15500, speed. 65 mph outside temperature 107f, location west of Las Cruces NM on I10. Tire RM170 Roadmaster engineered by Cooper Tire, size ST215/75R17.5 LRH. Cold psi 125. Age made 12/20. TPMS readings before moving in the am, all tires read 85 degrees cold and 125 psi, just before blow out sun side ( curb side) temp 110 and psi 146 and 148, street side temp 101 and psi 142 and 141. TPMS screamed at us and showed 0 psi.I stopped immediately on side of I 10 , had my two friends set up 3 orange cones on highway and I put on yellow vest and started getting tire up off ground. My friend got the spare down while I used the right rear stabilizer to rise trailer high enough to get bottle Jack under u bolts on axle. Bad tire off, spare on within a couple minutes due to me using Ryobi battery impact wrench! We were back on road in less than 20 minutes!
Now subject title explained- Blown Tire -obviously, TPMS - had I not had this I don’t know when I would have realized I had blown a tire, I heard nothing, felt nothing, and saw nothing, so big believer in this! Mud Flaps - had these on an old truck and put on trailer because the mud was being thrown up on the sewer connection and I thought maybe it would wreck the hook up, but now I believe it caught the tread as it came off and kept it from damaging my trailer! Oh, if I didn’t say, there was zero damage to the trailer, mud flaps, luck, I don’t know but I’ll take either way! YouTube- I had watched YouTubers do this dance many times, hoping I would never have to but they gave me the knowledge to do it quickly and safely! So I want to thank all those that have put out the information, recommend if you are going on a trip review some of these.
Jim
Now subject title explained- Blown Tire -obviously, TPMS - had I not had this I don’t know when I would have realized I had blown a tire, I heard nothing, felt nothing, and saw nothing, so big believer in this! Mud Flaps - had these on an old truck and put on trailer because the mud was being thrown up on the sewer connection and I thought maybe it would wreck the hook up, but now I believe it caught the tread as it came off and kept it from damaging my trailer! Oh, if I didn’t say, there was zero damage to the trailer, mud flaps, luck, I don’t know but I’ll take either way! YouTube- I had watched YouTubers do this dance many times, hoping I would never have to but they gave me the knowledge to do it quickly and safely! So I want to thank all those that have put out the information, recommend if you are going on a trip review some of these.
Jim
). Luckily it was also curb side. The scariest part was getting the spare out from under the trailer with the 18 wheelers blasting past, a few feet away. The most frustrating part . . . several police cars slowed to see what I was doing. Not one thought it necessary to turn on their lights and stand by to give me a little space to get the tire changed. Thanks Atlanta Police !
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