[Peter]

Yikes!

What was the DOT date?

[Dan]

What PSI was he running? What’s this failure about?

[Bryan]

Looks like the same failure that we caught a bit earlier leaving PC rally in OKC. There was a thread at that time. We think rotation from steer might be the problem. Geo.

[Archived]

I’ll try to answer the best I can

#1 I run 100 on the tag

105 on the drive

110 on the steer

#2 Chris yes I did rotate the steers to the tag every time when I put on new tires

The date on the failed tag tire 26/13

The date on my new 365 are 42/15

#3 Prevost Mira Loma is going to get ahold of Michelin and send the tire back.

I’m just thankful that they had 2 that I could buy. Talk to some other tire companies in the area

And there is a 6 month back order. Maybe a guy needs to invest in 365 tires and forget the cattle business

For what they charge for them. I’m just glad to be back on the road and thank God that I didn’t have a

Blowout on the Interstate 10.

[Alex]

Holy crap, I just moved my steer to tag in June. I’ll watch our tags.

Sid, how did you notice this?

[Kim]

I was going to post a smart aleck answer about the noise when it let go being a clue, but the truth is that there is no standard easy answer.

The obvious answer is when some tires let go there is no mistaking the noise. If you miss the noise and are driving at highway speeds you may hear the carcass of the tire tearing up the coach. We have had members report body panels being blown off, mufflers ruined, air hoses, brake chambers and even air bags being damaged.

But I had an inner duel fail catastrophically in my garage and I wasn’t even around. I have no idea why it picked my garage to fail, but it was obvious from looking at it I hit something that literally cut a baseball sized chunk of tread out of it and it burst at the sidewall which probably was weakened from driving from where the damge happened to my garage. A pre-trip inspection showed zero pressure.

I had a nail in a tire sidewall and I would lose about 5 PSI every couple of hours. Again a pre-trip inspection showed low pressure and I couldn’t find the leak until I got home. I added air every couple of hours. Pressure Pro would have alerted if I had one.

It’s great when a tire announces its failure, especially if no damage occurs, but usually a failure is so catastrophic and sudden it is only luck if just the tire is the damaged part. The slow leaks have to be caught early so they don’t lead to a blowout. Vigilance, luck, Pressure Pro, and attention to detail are the only ways I know to catch tire failures.

[Davy]

There’s a thread on chassis section re rotation of tires. I, too, have had 2 different tag mounted tires fail after being rotated from steer. Don’t have a scientific explanation, but I no longer rotate.

[Archived]

Sid yes thank God you were not on side of the interstate….. Back over here on the east coast we dont seem to have any problem with the 365’s. In the last 30 days we have bought 4 365’s from a Tampa area michelin dealer who had them in stock and no wait. One week later bought 2 365’s from Prevost Jacksonville Fl. they had them in stock and no wait. Just saying..

Bill S.

[Peter]

Tom, I just stop in a rest area on our way to Newport Beach and did a walk around and that’s when I noticed it. I was on the 10 by the CABAZON outlet center.