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Blown Tire- not having fun
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I have to give anoher plug for Coach Net. Two Sunday’s back while treaveling Westbound of I-10 in Alabama, had the right tag blow. Actually it shreaded. Coach-Net was quick to get service to me, but a 315 sized tire was impossible to find on a Sunday afternoon. Thankfully the service truck/heavy duty wrecker that came out knew someone that could locate a 315 tire w/rim and bring it to us to get us to the closest exit (Loves). Monday a replacment tire was located and installed by afternoon. The only cost to me was the cost if the new tire. Coach-Net paid for all of the rest. That is the condensed version; however, there is no doubt in my mind, they were billed very heavilly for all of the service trucks that responded to our problem. Never leave home without it…
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Makes me glad my coach has a spare 315 mounted on a steel wheel sitting right behind the front bumper. Hope I never need it but it sure is nice knowing its with me.
Sorry to hear of all the tire troubles!
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I actually think our tires are pretty reliable, but with the heat that seems widespread around the country this summer I am sure that has affected them.
We can only guess how many members own and drive a coach, but at the usual 8 wheels per coach times the probable couple of thousand here on the site the percentage of problems seems pretty small. It has to be affecting all big vehicles because I’m seeing tire carcasses all over the place.
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Dan: how old is the tire behind the front bumper?
Jon is right about carcasses all over the road. On Tuesday and Wednesday I drove from Grafton (north of Milwaukee)around Chicago up I-94 (Kalamazoo and Battle Creek) to I-69 past Lansing and then to Flint and back. There was a steady stream of shredded truck tires the entire trip. Saw four or five semi’s along the road with shredded tires. Saw two or three passenger cars with flat tires. Something I don’t usually see.
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Now this is the amazing part. I’m sitting there frustrated, trying to decide my next move when a pickup truck pulls up beside me. A guy gets out with a filthy dirty white shirt and nearly black blue jeans. I get out and he looks at my tire and says, I might have one of those. I’m thinking, “are you kidding me.” He leaves, and comes back 15 minutes later with a decent used 295/75R 22.5 tire. He says “if you think that will do, I will put it on for you. I’m thinking “not on a drive axle or maybe not on the front, but on a tag axle-maybe.” I get on line and look on the this web site and others, and read all I can quickly about tires. The best suggestion I find is that the suspension will probably make up for some height differencees, so I tell him to put it on (4 hours after blowout).
The story gets better. He tells me his shop is just 1/4 mile down the road and would I mind driving to his shop. i slowly drive down to his shop, which is an old metal building. Amazingly he has a high bay door and I back into the garage. He has an old shop with tools all over the place. He proceeds to use a pnumatic power jack and jacks up the coach, takes off the blown tire, and all by hand, takes the tire off the rim and puts the new tire on, checks air in the other tires and tells me his charge is $250. I give him 3 $100 bills and tell him it was well worth it.
I start out slow at first and gradually get up to 65-70 mph, and everything seems fine. I get back to Ohio and the tire is still there looking great.
That is great! I love when good folks show up right on time. I want to be like that.
Davy
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Hi Dick,
I don’t remember the exact date code but I’ve had it out and inspected inside and out. It has not been on the road and does not see any sunlight – so no cracks. I thought about putting a brand new one on a couple weeks ago but for ~750 bucks a pop for a new tire/mount & powder……. This one will get me off the side of the road.
Now – my real question is… should I actually fit a 12 R for the spare? My drive tires are 12R’s and the tire dealer won’t put 315’s on the drive. They don’t think I have enough room to eliminate any tire kiss. I have 315’s on the steer and tag. It would be ideal to have all 9 tires the same. My tag will lift so I actually have three extra steer tires available. I can’t see going back to 12R’s for the steer as the 315’s are SOOOOO much nicer handling. PS – I just put on some Goodyear “Duraseal” tires on the steer – they’re supposed to seal around small punctures for a little extra safety margin.
I’m just finishing up a two week trip through Canada and the Canadian Rockies and back though Montana, N Dakota, MN and have only seen a couple shreaded tires. However, it’s MUCH cooler up here.
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