Steer tires blowing going downhill or on a curve?

I heard that too. Also when you’re driving off-road that’s why the old timers never had their hands inside the steering wheel always on the outer rims so if the wheel decided to go it’s own way it wouldn’t injure you.

 

Op. You deal with the cards you’re dealt with at the time. The very first thing you need to do when your tire blows is GET CONTROL. Forget the rim it’s already damaged what you’re doing now is damage control. Once you’re in control of your rig again and she’s going straight then you can coast down to the shoulder if you have one. If you don’t you ride on that rim until you find a safe place so the guy that’s on his phone and driving doesn’t rear end you. When a steer tire blows the truck will want to steer towards that direction but as long as you don’t slam the brakes you can adjust your steering and get it back. Just like what you do when you adjust the steering for the wind hitting the truck. When you start coasting you’ll notice you’ll need to steer more and more until you’re almost stopped but if you slam the brakes you could risk over or under correcting its best to coast until you’re at about 30mph where it can be much easier to control while braking.

 

I learned on standard or air-assist steering trucks and I still won’t put my thumbs through a steering wheel. Even brushing a curb would tear the wheel from your hands and take it to one lock or the other. If the wheels on a loaded steer axle weren’t already pointed in the right direction when you stopped, before you started to back up, you weren’t moving them without help. Had to plan adventures in restricted spaces a little better. Had more warning with those trucks though. You’d feel something and have the tire off the truck before it blew out on the road usually. You can shove the steer tire of a loaded truck against a curb and not even feel it in the wheel with a power steering truck. That may be why you see more steer failures on the road now. Something is causing it, the tires themselves are light years ahead of what we had then. Even with better tires, smashing loaded ones off of curbs day in and day out like it’s normal and tearing them up with wheel spinners may be part of it too.

 

If you have a blowout immediately peg the throttle to bring the front end up a bit while using the trailer brake to slow you down.

Edit. Didn't read all the replies but Six covered it good

 

And @201 NO THUMBS in the wheel.

 

That's how I was trained,hit the throttle first and gradually slow down ,it's supposed to be easier to control,but I never lost a steer so I don't know for sure.

 

. Hmmm how about some advice on getting a new job after the stupid stunt of setting the parking brakes at 30mph.

 

My old Pete had center point steering which wasn’t much better than no power steering. One of the first things I learned was keep your hands on the outside of the wheel. Potholes would hurt you if you weren’t careful. The only time my hands were on the inside was when backing into a tight spot.

 

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