Goodyear blowouts

[wingnut60]

Stanley,
Got a lot of miles out of a set of Hankooks on my 450...no flats, no blowouts. Just rode harder than iron.

[golf_bears]

We had a 2008 MS TK3 with the GY 114s. Drove well over 60,000 miles on them including a trip to Alaska. After 7 years felt it was time to replace them. Went with the Hankooks and had no issues. Have since traded in the 2008 for a 2017. The 2017 has the GY 114s on it. Hope all goes well with the GY 114s on our new RV.

Good luck with what ever tire replacement you go with.

[CALinSC]

You’re going to start seeing a lot of these on 7000# axles. All of the major China manufacturer’s are building them.

ST235/80R16G

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[CALinSC]

Originally Posted by wingnut60

Stanley,
Got a lot of miles out of a set of Hankooks on my 450...no flats, no blowouts. Just rode harder than iron.

I seem to recall that your Michelin that suffered the tread separation was a "J" rated European designed tire. They are speed rated at 62 MPH. I think Michelin only did them on the Suites for about a year.

I emailed Michelin a number of times about that speed rating for RV service and never got an answer. I live 10 miles from Michelin of North America so I stopped-in and asked the duty expert. The answer was; "We are suspending that fitment with DRV". Nothing about why.

[wingnut60]

Your memory is pretty darn good...had 2 of them at 4 years, but the tires were not OEM with Doubletree, I installed the 17.5s and wheels.
62mph was not often exceeded with those tires, but Mich would not help when they separated.

[Joezilla]

I always thought the J rated Michelins were rated at 62 mph because of the European requirement. They wanted the same speed rating the world over. I could be wrong though.

We had the Michelins on our 2012 Select Suites and never had a problem with them. Went to Arizona and back from Texas several times, and to Iowa and back several times. I always thought they were good tires.

Joe

[Stripit]

I used to think Michelin was the best made tire, but if you had any issue, their normal response was what did you do to cause our tire to fail? Goodyear often would replace the tire and fix the damage caused when one of their tires failed. Getting warrany on a Michelin was difficult, not impossible but normally much harder than Goodyear. That was what I found when I was weighing rigs. I ran Goodyears on the Mobile Suites and Michelin on the truck and car.

[porthole]

August 2010 I purchased 5 GY G-114's and new rims for our toy hauler (2 axle MOR/ryde IS)
April 2015 I had a right rear blowout, while coming off a sweeping left turn exit from the interstate.
Two things I think kept the trailer from rolling, the MOR/ryde IS and remaining GY 114
This was about 1 hour after starting the morning travel (on a Sunday) and we had 350 miles to go.
Since I no longer had a spare we did about 50 mph the rest of the way. My normal travel speed is 55-65.

Went to a GY dealer in Myrtle Beach.
Goodyear tire warranty division wanted nothing to do with the blowout.
My tires were 5 years and 2 months by date code but 4 years and 8 months by purchase date.

Two items of note, the TPMS did not alert when the tire blew. There was a delay and the TPS showed 70 psi at that tire until I turned it off and restarted. 70 psi wth no tread! Goodyear corporate was interested in the tire and wanted to see the tread and sidewall. The GY store had a bit of time convincing the people on the phone that there was no tread and hardly any sidewall.

I had the shop replace all 4 tries, did not want to take a chance with the remaining tires.

Someone, don't recall who, suggested I contact the GY property and damage division.

Started that conversation with explaining the difference in dates (tire build vs purchase).
Nice lady on the other end of the phone told me, we don't care about that, just get all you information together and forward to this email.......

All GY comms from that point were by email.
I submitted a claim for:
The 4 tire replacement I did in Myrtle Beach $1950
The rim (which was damaged during the blowout) and
The spare (originally I purchased 5 wheels and tires) $650
Body damage $3578
4" PVC storage tube $40
Duraflap mud flap $60

I submitted my claim May 19th, received an mail with a release to sign on May 21 and within a week I had a check for the full amount.
Only thing I didn't get was the $107 I paid for the body estimate, as I forgot to include that on my claim.

In this picture I have finished up and putting away the last of my tools. Notice the nice trooper still holding my hub cap for me?

[Cummins12V98]

I am in the process of getting my money back, I had a tread separation loss and two other tires looked suspicious. GY dealer replaced three tires and I had to pay $1,714 for those. They DID NOT get my approval to replace two suspicious ones. So far they have sent me two checks totaling $1,081. The tires only had around 12,000 miles so the pro rating is not even close. I have been dealing with Fred a CA rep and he has been very good to deal with. So my story is not closed yet but I am sure they will make it right.

[Bikersarge]

We put Sailun tires on ours, they are a 14ply G rated, sidewalls very stout and weigh 20 lbs more then the ST/ E rated tires on the market. feel real good about these tires.

Bob

[wingnut60]

Tho by the time I need to replace the 114s on current trailer, the tire market will have changed--but I probably will replace them with the Sailuns I had on the '05 when we traded it. Also used them on the 450 with very good life. I have mentioned that they are a very hard rubber compound--last forever, but with a hard ride.
Joe