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This video could save your life
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Great reminder BA!
Thanks for your attentiveness on this matter …
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I watch it whenever you post it!
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Thanks for your continued dedication for posting this every month…. Al..
Bill S..
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Always excellent Al. Thanks for posting. Mr Mark’s post is a great reminder why you should buy a Prevost.
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Thanks,
I found this in one of the RV magazines. It truly represents what we face driving on the Interstates today.
A dangerous moron who brags about how he nearly killed everyone including the dog and a pro.
This is one of my favorites……
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Al, you are to be congratulated for your posts regarding blowouts. It is and always has been a very valuable post that now is documented to have played a role in keeping a bad situation from becoming a dangerous one.
Thank you.
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As it nears 10 years old trucks time date its message, but not the content. This video has the same message.
Please post your comments
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Since the subject has come up again and since I can’t remember if I have posted this photo previously, here it is.
This is the right front on a Monoco that is owned by a friend of mine here at Pelican Lake in Naples, FL. His wife was driving it at highway speeds of around 70 plus on Interstate 75. She did it right and it stayed on the road until she pulled it off.
This coach had the Tyron Band fixtures in the steer wheels, as it does now, and the tire stayed on the wheel which has everything to do with a successful outcome with a blow out situation. I’m a believer in the Tyron Bands to the extent that I would rather drive without seatbelts than to drive without the Tyron Band protection. They are not cheap, but well worth the price. Check it out. It’s not a gimmick.
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I also owned a Monaco before my Prevost. I was convinced of the value of the Tyron bands after attending a Monaco rally and hearing a speaker expound on their virtues. Fast forward to when I purchased my XL2 almost a year ago, and the Marathon service adviser talked me out of it. I forget his rationale but he wasn’t a believer at all.
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It all depends on your driving experience and expertise.
After watching the video you see the basic must do when you realize you are the victim of a steer axle blow out.
A split second on which pedal you push to keep your RV under control.
In my RV total travels…about 200K miles ..never had a blow out.
I’ve seen a couple of 18 wheelers on the side of the road with a steer axle tire flat. The entire rig neatly pull on side of road, good job driver.
There have been PC members that tell me about watching the video every month. getting there brain wrapped around the correct pedal to push.
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Mark,
I just read what you said about the Marathon service adviser and his take on the Tyron Bands and talking you out of using them. I thought about leaving the chip on the log and just letting it pass, but I just can’t.
I can’t imagine anyone, as the saying goes, “with one eye and half sense” taking such a position on this subject. There are people out there who actually believe that eating microwave prepared food will make you glow in the dark and there are those that are deathly afraid to wear seat belts for fear of being trapped in a burning vehicle. There are also those that believe the world is flat and there are those that don’t believe that men have actually walked on the moon. This guy sounds to me like he could be from any one of those groups. Whomever would take such a stand on this subject in my honest opinion is either ignorant on the subject or stupid or maybe both and you can tell him that I said so. This is hard for me to fathom.
I can’t help but wonder, is this guy intelligent enough that he’s managed to reach an economic level that allows him to actually own and operate a Prevost based motor coach, or does he just work for a dealership that sells them?
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Do you have them on your coach John?
I see and understand the merits of them, and the choice to use them or not comes down to the individual. Clearly you believe the Marathon guy’s opinion was wrong, but when all factors are weighed for most people it might be an acceptable choice.
The folks that need them are those who are willing to drive on old tires, those who are not anal about maintaining the correct tire pressures, and those who like to chat on a cell phone while driving. I put those folks in the high risk category who would probably get a substantial benefit.
But the drivers who watch the video monthly (like practicing stalls) are likely to respond correctly and the need to take proper action may never be needed because those same drivers likely watch tire pressures, do a good pre-trip tire inspection, remove their tires after 5 or 6 years, and probably use both hands on the wheel. For them it might not have a benefit anywhere near the cost.
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Jon,
I’m sure that you can see that this is really a hot button for me. Yes I do have them on my coach and wouldn’t consider being without them. And yes, if that Marathon service guy was working for me, he would be looking for another job within about ten minutes if I found out about this incident.
You’re absolutely correct in all that you say about tire age, pressure and all of the things that go with good preventative maintenance protecting you against a blow out, but there are other things that are completely beyond our control, such as road hazards as in foreign object damage. I’m sure that you remember the Concorde crash in Paris France. The cause was due to a blown tire on take-off which was caused by a piece of metal on the runway that had come from another airplane that had just landed.
I know that I don’t have to tell you this, but the successful outcome of a steering axle blow out has a great deal to do with the tire staying on the wheel.
The Tyron Band assures you that it will. A part of the Tyron guarantee is that they will buy you a new wheel if you have one damaged in a blow out event and they say that they have never had to, as yet, replace one.
I’m not selling Tyron Bands. I have no connection to them, I just know that they work and they are the only thing out there that will do the job.
I don’t really think that the RV market is enough to really be of much importance to the Tyron people. I think that they pretty much have all the business that they really need with the military and public service vehicle contracts.
One last thing. There is an old saying that you may have or haven’t heard.
“If you blow a drive axle tire, you stand a good chance of taking a trip to the body shop. If you blow a steering axle tire, you stand a good chance of taking a trip to the morgue.” And remember, There’s probably most of the time a pretty close family member in the right seat. The seat closest to the big trees on the side of the road.
I think that there’s more to consider here than the installation price.
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I have Tyron bands, and fortunately, we have not had a blowout. I do feel safer. The cost was in the $2,700 range for two front bands. There is a new band out there that looks interesting and perhaps easier to install. Can’t find the name now. They had a recent ad in FMCA magazine. It is a larger than the Tyron.
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