Happy New Year! Hope you had an enjoyable holiday season. 2013 is sure to be as unpredictable as 2012.
Have you ever been on the road, driving your RV, calmly staring at the endless American road ahead of you when – all of a sudden – you hear an explosion? The calm is gone, the serenity out the window, and your trip is ruined. You have just experienced a tire blowout. It happens to the best of us.
When you are an RV owner, the life of a trailer tire is only three to five years. Just because there may a lot of tread on a tire does not mean it is a good tire. For all you know, the tire (and trailer for that matter) could have been sitting in a warehouse for a few years. Tires do not have to look worn out. Regardless of how it looks, after three to five years, a tire is dangerous. When it comes to tires, it is best not to judge a book by its cover. At Hemet Valley RV, we get a lot of business from blown tires.
When a tire blows out, it will do damage to the lower skirts and sometimes the sidewall siding as well. A tire just doesn’t get a hole in it and deflates, it explosively comes apart. Moreover, when it comes apart, it’s flails heavy thick rubber causing damage to everything around it. Not only do you lose a tire, but your lower skirts suffer damage as well. It is a double whammy.
In the event of a tire blowout, Hemet Valley RV is the place to get lower skirt metal and sidewall siding.
*Image courtesy of Larisa Koshkina