Thread: Kumho blowout!
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Old 06-07-2010, 09:11 AM   #13
wmtire
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Dave, I have been reading up on your terrible tire troubles. Man, I hate this.

I am like you, and don't believe that temperature/elevation change is the culprit. Your tow vehicle tires went thru the same, without any trouble.

It is so hard to diagnose a tire that has a blowout, as far as the tread peeling off. It's hard to know if the tire blew, then the tread peeled from the run flat.......or if the tread peeled first, which caused the sidewall to blow. It can happen either way.

On tires that don't actually blow, but the tread peels off (and they still have air), then you can say for sure the tire separated (technically it's called tread delamination)

I am doing a lot of thinking on this. I'm already pretty sure of the answer, but do you check the air pressure in your TV tires when you check your tires on the trailer? Or does your Toyota have a Tire Pressure Monitoring System on it, so you don't have to check the pressure? There is a reason I am asking this.
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