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I've been towing for many years now and been lucky enough never to have had a blowout/puncture on the road. Until that is a few weeks ago when I was flagged down and told I had a flat tyre on my van. I was able to pull off the road and change it. My point is that I was unaware of the problem and, although the tyre was still visually intact, inspection on removal showed the casing to be severely damaged. Had I driven any further on the flat tyre it would obviously look like a blowout when, in fact, the original problem was a merely a puncture. What I found worrying was that I had no indication the tyre had lost pressure especially as prior to being flagged down I had been doing a reasonable speed with no apparent problem. I am a fully qualified mechanic with lots of experience of tyres and would suggest that many so called blowouts are simply the result of punctures.
We have had two blowouts, both on newish caravans. The one in France was caused when we clipped one of those awful metal storm drains while avoiding a crazy French lady driver. The one in Britain was a great nail dropped on the motorway..!!! In 18 years of caravanning perhaps that's not bad considering the state of our roads.
Quote: Originally posted by weeeck on 24/9/2013
I've been towing for many years now and been lucky enough never to have had a blowout/puncture on the road. Until that is a few weeks ago when I was flagged down and told I had a flat tyre on my van. I was able to pull off the road and change it. My point is that I was unaware of the problem and, although the tyre was still visually intact, inspection on removal showed the casing to be severely damaged. Had I driven any further on the flat tyre it would obviously look like a blowout when, in fact, the original problem was a merely a puncture. What I found worrying was that I had no indication the tyre had lost pressure especially as prior to being flagged down I had been doing a reasonable speed with no apparent problem. I am a fully qualified mechanic with lots of experience of tyres and would suggest that many so called blowouts are simply the result of punctures.
same on my mini artic trailer get a puncture you cant feel it as its a twin axle trailer . by the time i have stopped its usually ripped the tyre sidewall to pieces . i now carry two spares for the trailer and two for my tow unit . on the twin rear of the mitzy it can be hard to tell as it doesnt carry that much weight anymore . regular checks is all you can hope for . pick up a nail or screw even a top price tyre is useless.
so let me tell you about my puncture.. the thing is the bottom of the cars rear window lines up with the top of the caravans front locker box. so I can see looking through rear view mirror if the caravan is leaning to one side or the other. which is how I spotted things were not right and slowed down. resulting in no drama what-so-ever. You could do the same thing with a pin stripe or similar. it works like a land omit-er
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the trailer doesnt go down ,it stays the same hieght with a twin axle .
i once had a broken stub axle and strapped the bust axle up high and drove from denia to malaga to a mates garage no probs .
on a single axle yes you see it go down .
A blowout by definition is a sudden & explosive failure of the casing & will often go bang, the resulting flailing rotating tread usally results in damage to area of caravan adjacent to tyre. Causes can be old & perished tyre, tyre of insufficient load rating(unlikely on new caravan), manufacturing fault(arguably more likely on budget tyre than premium make) & of course an overheating tyre caused by low pressure including slow puncture.
Slow deflation caused by puncture is not a blow out & unless 'van is towed some distance with flat tyre causing it to come off rim it shouldn't cause body damage, but generally a puctured tyre will look nothing like a tyre after a blowout.
when i replaced my tyres at 5 yrs old i got 2 kargomax tyres 195/70/14 from mytyre.com for £57 each.original tyre had a load rating of 96n, 625 kgs each. new kargomaxs are 104n. 900 kgs. so for a 1335 kgs caravan i have a good safety margin. As for gt radial tyres,based in manchester,i have been using them on my fleet of tippers for about 2 years now with very good results. price wise a little cheaper than some main stream tyre companies but very strong and robust. A lot of there staff are ex michelin and bridgestone.
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Topic: Tyre Blow Outs
