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PLankford · 04-01-2016, 10:59 AM

Outside of my lack of familiarity with the steer safe system, I'd agree with what dave is saying above.

Almost exclusively when a customer tells us he is having an issue with blow outs, we can track it right back to lack of appropriate tire pressure. We see it all the time, people not understanding how important pressure is to keeping heat down.

Most tire manufacturers will only rate tires at the max pressure and if you are under pressure, technically your rating is zero. Those that do rate tires at lower pressures, you can see that the rating reduces almost linearly to the pressure to about 40% reduction in pressure from max. In other words- if you are running 125psi tires at 100psi, your rating is 20% or so lower. At 60,000lbs of tire rating, you've just taken 12,000lbs of capacity off of your axles. We see people running them at car like pressures (60-80psi) thinking that it's something other than maintenance that is causing their issues.

Between tire pressure monitoring and age/condition monitoring a lot of problems could be avoided. That being said, sometimes bad things just happen even if you are careful.... It's another risk in the racing that we love...

04-01-2016, 10:59 AM	#40
PLankford Junior Member Join Date: May 2015 Posts: 16 Likes: 0 Liked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: motor home safety Outside of my lack of familiarity with the steer safe system, I'd agree with what dave is saying above. Almost exclusively when a customer tells us he is having an issue with blow outs, we can track it right back to lack of appropriate tire pressure. We see it all the time, people not understanding how important pressure is to keeping heat down. Most tire manufacturers will only rate tires at the max pressure and if you are under pressure, technically your rating is zero. Those that do rate tires at lower pressures, you can see that the rating reduces almost linearly to the pressure to about 40% reduction in pressure from max. In other words- if you are running 125psi tires at 100psi, your rating is 20% or so lower. At 60,000lbs of tire rating, you've just taken 12,000lbs of capacity off of your axles. We see people running them at car like pressures (60-80psi) thinking that it's something other than maintenance that is causing their issues. Between tire pressure monitoring and age/condition monitoring a lot of problems could be avoided. That being said, sometimes bad things just happen even if you are careful.... It's another risk in the racing that we love...