single axle. never deflated. they kept the nominal pressure of 50PSI despite wires sticking out. i cut the wires and didn't pull on them as i needed to drive to the place with replacement wheels. I can pull on them tomorrow.Is it a single axle trailer and did they go flat on you? It seems really unlikely 2 tires would go wacko simultaneously on their own. (not doubting you)
Seriously weird. What happens if you pull on a wire?
Hope Capriracer sees this one!
nope, fairly new, barely used tires.Those tires look like retreads to me.
Are these covid-era made tires?
there is nothing more. the wires are from the tire. i clipped them before driving back and they grew longer since. i'll pull on them tomorrow just for fun of it.I just can't see these wires coming out of the tires like that. No cracking, no dry rot, there has to be more to this story.
And yeah, what happens when you pull on these wires?
many thanks for the technical info from the guru. i'll google on that more...That's a failure of rubber adhesion to the wire in the steel belt. When that happens, the individual wires "snake" their way through the rubber and eventually come out. Kind of rare as rubber to steel adhesion is pretty straight forward.
Here's what you need to do:many thanks for the technical info from the guru. i'll google on that more...
Covid shutdowns, etc wreaked havoc on quality of mfg'd goods. It started out as a joke and has become a bad problem. Lots of bad crap out there. Even more than usual!02/20 it was covid in china by then alright. why does it matter?
I have rum them thousands of miles all over the country with zero issues. But I don't curb hop, pull over 65 mph. Nor scrub the tires on tight turns, and always check my inflation. Imagine that zero issues.I would not buy made in China tires.
You want radial tires. Bias ply are ancient technology. Third go for usa made tiresit's a long story, but to make it short, i took my boat to a lake an 1hr of interstate driving away. tires are fairly new, 2.5 years old with a third boating season. low miles with tread like new. proper size and load rating. the tires were in great shape and properly inflated before the trip. no problems with this part of the trip and i drove at 60-65 mph. after retrieving the boat from the lake, after it got dark, and i had to take a few tries as the slip was weird with trailer crooked, i heard a rubbing sound and it looked like one of the tires was rubbing the plastic fender. after wasting some time trying to make more clearance (I thought the fender was distorted by boat not positioned correctly at the first try), i noticed wires sticking from tires on both sides. they were shorter at that time but then i realized the tires were shot.
i'll skip the details how we hot back home, unless someone is curious about it.
these are the daytime pictures after returning home (both tires are comparable):
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After owning cars and a boat for a looong time, i haven't seen anything like that. but this is my first time with trailer radial tires.
My questions:
1. what caused both tires go bad at the same instance?
2. is this a bad idea to have radial trailer tires in the first place?
3. i noticed the tires were made in china. is this the new normal?
4. is it covered by warranty? I need to figure out first where i bought tires, i had them mounted. i liked the idea or radial at that time.
5. the replacement tires on wheels i bought at a nearby WMT just before they closed are also Chinese, but bias ply ones. are they going to fail soon too?
6. after i clip the sticking wires, can i use them as spares for short trips? I suspect the answer is no, LOL!
Thanks for reading!
But if I only have a choice of Beef and Broccoli or General Tso's Chicken tomorrow what flavor might be better? The steel poking things and air loss on the current Lo Mein won't work for Sunday morning.Chinese crap tires.