what happens when a steer tire blows on freeway

Wait till the steering stabilizer goes out.

 

I do not have 4 wheel drive and do have rack and pinion steering. Not sure a stabilizer is under there....

 

I do not know.

Just look under it sometime and see if there is a shock across there. I had mine go out and it was fun.

 

I had one let go (first steer tire in 36 years) on I-26 east of Columbia SC. Like "otherhalftw" mine just dumped all its air and I was suddenly riding on the rim, no loud bang, just a real bad shimmy in the steering. I kept my foot on the gas until I was sure I had it under control, then let off and eased onto the berm. I had been traveling about 64 mph pulling doubles, probably about 40K in the wagons, 73K gross. Not a very wide berm, had to exit passenger door in order to place my triangles. Tire vendor was nearby and had a new wheel and tire on in half an hour.

 

Roadmedic.... When I changed the oil I looked and there is no steering stabilizer.

It's getting hot and the road is getting hotter. I figure it ain't gonna be too long before one of my tires goes belly up.

 

One way is to slow down. Consider yourself lucky on the stabilizer.

Mine went out last year and the one I put on was defective and gave me fits till I figured it out again. Gave a bad ride on bumps and was wicked, yet when you checked it, was fine. Just replaced it finally and found it bad in the middle.

 

Omg can't believe no one posted correct answer. It goes BOOM,,, slap slap slap and u go oh ship

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Had a steer pop at triple digit speeds in South Georgia. The procedure was to pull the trailer hand brake and use trailer brakes only to come to a stop. I pulled the hand brake down slowly and got onto the shoulder of the road. The amazing thing was the front wheel missing the tire didn't even get chewed up.

in Truckin, the absolute last resort in any situation is to hit the brake pedal.

 

My company put all new steer tires on the trucks this week whether they needed them or not. Not cheap tires either, Michelins. My father in law says they do that every year at this time to lessen the chance of steer failure. The old steers will be put in the spare tire pile or put on trailers as needed.

 

I had a brand new steer (<800 miles) run flat on me. I didn't even know it was flat until I got out to see why I has having to hold my steering wheel so far to the left.