Beautiful Sky Country

[redbaron]

Weather is beautiful, We are safe, God is good.

We had a blowout of the tag tire in the worst part of the road, but within 5 minutes we had a random tire company stop to help . They have MDOT blocking the lane for us and things are being handled.

I heard the pop and moved over as soon as I could . TPMs went to zero 2 minutes afterwards.

 

[Neal]

Wowza, glad all are okay. Gorgeous picture though

I'm sure all will ask, guessing no indication of something about to happen, it just happened.

 

[team bradfield]

glad your safe

 

[redbaron]

I was talking on the phone (Bluetooth hands free) and heard a pop. I knew it was a tire. Was climbing the pass and tried to get over. I thought it was steer tire but turns out it was tag. Once I got as far over as guard rail would allow I saw the tire in mirror. I drove about 100 ft at 3mph and saw tire working itself off rim. Called it quits.

I had a 2 minute thought process to mentally come up with a plan and then TPMs went off….so much for that system.

I called my road side assistance and tire warranty (campers edge) and after about 10 minutes explaining why I don’t have a spare and they need to bring me a tire, I saw a road side truck repair pull in front of me.

We are 2 hrs into waiting for a tire to be brought and then should be good. I will update once this saga is over.

 

[Rollin Ollen]

I was talking on the phone (Bluetooth hands free) and heard a pop. I knew it was a tire. Was climbing the pass and tried to get over. I thought it was steer tire but turns out it was tag. Once I got as far over as guard rail would allow I saw the tire in mirror. I drove about 100 ft at 3mph and saw tire working itself off rim. Called it quits.

I had a 2 minute thought process to mentally come up with a plan and then TPMs went off….so much for that system.

I called my road side assistance and tire warranty (campers edge) and after about 10 minutes explaining why I don’t have a spare and they need to bring me a tire, I saw a road side truck repair pull in front of me.

We are 2 hrs into waiting for a tire to be brought and then should be good. I will update once this saga is over.

I also note that it was a Michelin! I just put six on ours. Can you tell what caused it?

 

[redbaron]

I have had a terrible vibration. Thought it was steer tires. Had them road force balanced and tested and said no problems. I am now wondering if this tire was the problem. I am going to be doing a better check of the tire once it’s not in the traffic lane.

Tire dates are 18th week of 2021, so in the range to replace, but early imho to fail.

 

[Neemer]

It appears no damage to coach.

 

[Neal]

So the question is when you get new. Michelin or Toyo? I’ve lost faith in Michelin RV tires. Love them for cars. Not RV.