Montana Owners Club - Keystone Montana 5th Wheel Forum - View Single Post - Rear tire blow-out with 3/4 truck?

sreigle · 08-15-2005, 07:04 PM

Both my one ton F350's were single rear wheel, not duallys. Both had load range E tires. My F250 3/4 ton has the same size tires. Actually, larger since these are 17 inch and the F350's were 16. Anyhow, I've never blown any tire on any of those trucks. But I have blown a tire on a fifthwheel and didn't even know it until someone pulled around and flagged me down to let me know about the tire. As stable as these things are when towing I don't expect to experience any hair raising fishtailing when someday a rear truck tire blows. I guess I just don't worry about it. Maybe I'm being naive, but that's how I look at it. Between the three trucks (all towed this Montana) we've put 69,000, 51,000, and 30,00 miles on them. That's 150,000 total. Not all of that was towing, of course. But 30,000 was towing this Montana with probably close to that many miles on our prior fifthwheels combined.

08-15-2005, 07:04 PM	#6
sreigle Montana Master Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Oceanside Posts: 20,028 M.O.C. #20	Both my one ton F350's were single rear wheel, not duallys. Both had load range E tires. My F250 3/4 ton has the same size tires. Actually, larger since these are 17 inch and the F350's were 16. Anyhow, I've never blown any tire on any of those trucks. But I have blown a tire on a fifthwheel and didn't even know it until someone pulled around and flagged me down to let me know about the tire. As stable as these things are when towing I don't expect to experience any hair raising fishtailing when someday a rear truck tire blows. I guess I just don't worry about it. Maybe I'm being naive, but that's how I look at it. Between the three trucks (all towed this Montana) we've put 69,000, 51,000, and 30,00 miles on them. That's 150,000 total. Not all of that was towing, of course. But 30,000 was towing this Montana with probably close to that many miles on our prior fifthwheels combined.