Tire Blowout

That looks pretty typical. Figure a LP 22.5 tire spins around 524 times per mile...at 64 mph, that is 559 revolutions per minute....a little more than 9 times per second. The tire also weighs in excess of 100 pounds, with a lot of that weight in the thicker "tread" part of the tire. When the tire starts coming apart, it's swinging a nearly 100 pound chunk of steel-reinforced rubber around 9 times per second, which will destroy pretty much anything it makes contact with....fenders, mud flaps, air lines, etc...

Factor in the extreme pressure the tire is under (100 psi cold....increasing as the tire warms up) and you start to understand WHY it is absolutely stupid to tailgate or ride next to a truck.

 

I had a crossmember break under and the apitong floor shred. It was a tire that I had regrooved that blew. That was back about 20 years ago, since then I NEVER use/buy regrooved and recaps on anything. And if I purchase a used tire, I always check the dot number on the casing, it tells you when the tire was manufactured.

 

Husband had I think a steer tire blow on the tractor, it took out some of the skirting also. IN a construction area with reduced lanes and he got to call HP to come out and monitor the situation while waiting for breakdown repair truck.

We were behind a dry van in the right lane when a fairly new p/u trk went to passing it, the dry van started slinging tire tread and it hit the p/u a pretty good lick, I know the guy was not a happy camper.

Things happen, esp with as many miles as a driver puts on a truck, but looking for trouble with cheap fixes is not a good idea in the longrun, like some companies who just love trying to use recaps.

 

Had one rip a DOT bumper off more that once....Also had a few airbags destroyed by the flying scrap metal!

 

Recaps aren't a problem IF they are done right. I've recapped my own casings and used them again on my drives....and then recapped 'em a second time and reused them again. Only had an issue with 1 tread separating on the second capping, but the tire case held up....it just started flinging off small chunks off of the center part of the tread...the shoulders were still intact, which got me to the receiver where I removed the tire for the trip home. I received credit for the unused tire life (based upon the tread depth), and I had another tire at the house to put on in its place. I use Crossfires to maintain proper air pressure, and I avoid running over curbs, large potholes, etc. which would damage the tires. In other words, the tires have been well cared for and NOT abused. The tire shop I use to recap my tires has a VERY stringent inspection process...they won't cap a junk case.

Now the fleet tires on the company's trailer, on the other hand, they seem to have a place that caps tires CHEAP. As long as it holds air, they'll rewrap it in tread....and sometimes they'll let it slide if the tire DOESN'T hold air & cap it anyway. I once picked up a nail in a trailer tire...went to a local shop to get it repaired and they told me they wouldn't patch the hole. When I walked back to see why, the nail had gone through one of the 12-15 patches that were already in this tire....one of which, was even up on the SIDEWALL! Yeah....I couldn't believe it had been put on a truck either, but it had. Unfortunately, dismounting the tires to inspect for patches on the sidewall isn't part of my usual pretrip....so I had missed that one. That tire was a problem waiting for a place to happen.

If the case is fairly new, and the tire has been cared for, and the cap facility has excellent quality controls in place, then the cap you get back is going to be just as good as (if not better than) a virgin, which has not received the same scrutiny and or been subjected to the same inspections. Quality in = quality out.

If the case has been abused, or the cap facility places its emphasis on low price at the expense of quality, then the cap you get back is probably going to be junk. Garbage in = garbage out.

I won't run somebody else's recapped cases...even from a tire shop I trust. I also won't run cheap, made in some 3rd world country virgin tires. I like to see "MADE IN USA" on the sidewalls, and if I'm buying it new, a DOT number less than 6 months old. If I'm capping my own tires for my own use, they have to be less than 3 years old. When they hit 4 years old or already been capped twice, I trade 'em off. They should still be good for a few more years and another capping...but I'll let somebody else make that choice to run it. Costs me too much money when I tear up my own stuff.

 

i had a rear inside drivers drive blow. i had a one piece rear light bumper along with the middle frame light plate under it frame gag cover. it took all of that out along with the wiring for the lights my air hoses for my trailer since i had moved them to the underside of my flatbed. also took out the outside drive and both airbags about 4 grand in damgae.

What pissed me off was this was a new tire i bought at the TA truck stop because i had a tire that got a slice in it and got nailed by a dot cop. didnt get a ticket for the tire. he followed me to the TA and watched me put in the work order. The tire was some cheap knock off and when we had it inspected the found that the tire had a bad mold cast and the liner was leaking which the said cused the blow out so one load 2 tires 2 air bags 1 light bumper 1 frame light bar and 1 frame gap cover....good was all the led lights survived and was able to put them in the new parts....

 

and as for recaps..it doesnt take much to mess up at a cap shop shave a hair to much and its waiting to blow dont put on the adhesive right waiting to sling a cap. and good luck finding 6 month old or newer caps since i use to work for michelin and most of the time the tires sat at michelins warehouse for 6 months before being shipped out. and made in america doesnt exist anymore....

 

Every tire on my truck right now is Made in the USA. With the exception of 2, every tire I've bought in the last 5 years has been Made in the USA....and those 2 were made in the UK. One of those were out-of-round in 40K miles, though, so they both came off and replaced with some that were made in the USA. The DOT number on all 10 of the tires I just bought show them being less than 3 months old.

...but you are right. Finding a 6 month old or newer cap is going to be next to impossible. You've got to run the tread off a virgin tire before it'll be sent in for recapping, and that alone is going to take more than 6 months. Personally, I've never shopped for caps. The only caps I'm willing to run on my truck are tires I bought new as virgins and then had capped when the tread depth got low enough to pull 'em off the truck.

 

blew drive and the piece hit my fuel tank. dented it real bad and the wires in the reinforcement scraped it deeply. like claws,thought it was gonna leak.

Oh, and SK27 you are gonna change that flat spotted tire, right??