There really is a Lonnie B see the proof at:
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With the seemingly endless discussions of Mission tire failures here on MOC; I finally decided not to risk them for our upcoming trip to Alaska. I doubt that I had 6,000 miles on the Missions and they looked fine. However, with Phil’s (exav8tr) experience of three flats between Anchorage and Washington State I didn’t want to be looking for a tire somewhere in the Yukon. In our very short time of fulltiming one of the truly great things we have found is you can decide to go somewhere and then just go. We had decided on the spur of the moment to go see Carlsbad Caverns and then we decided to go see MOCs very own tire expert Lonnie B.
As you would expect for a MOC member, Lonnie is very hospitable and a great guy. He and his crew took great care of us. While at Lonnie’s we had metal valve stems installed on all of the wheels for the truck and trailer. Lonnie’s guys also checked out the trailer brakes and wheel bearings. They did find that the brake wire to one of the wheels had been cut because they were installed at the wrong location.
Lonnie and I were discussing that he had never had a customer drive all the way from California just to buy tires from him. So, if you are with one or two states of Texico, New Mexico and even think you need tires go see Lonnie.
More pictures of Lonnie, me and the new tires.
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Grant aka BirdingRVer