First trip Northern Illinois to Houston 1100 miles

[TravelinRobert]

Well Karma and I made it to Houston almost without issue. First fuel stop in central illinois, doing my walk around and found one tire had bad wear , all the way to the belts and they were fraying out! Go to put on spare, realized i brought my battery impact but not the 1/2" impact sockets. . The "lug wrench" that aparently comes woth tbe unit, not worth the cheap chinese metal its made out of. Luckily a Walmart was 2 exits down, I limped to it and found the sockets. Put on the spare. Headed down the road, my brain started (Karma isnt a conversationalist unfortunatly) wondering why the tire had such bad wear on the inside. Bent axle, bad rim, axle alignment? The next and all subsequent stops showed no wear happening. Im chalking it up to the tire sidewall was bad and rode funny. So, ill be getting 4 new tires while in Houston.

 

[DutchmenSport]

It's a good thing you were able to catch the problem before it became a much bigger "blown up problem!" It's never a pleasant experience when tire problems occur. Again, I'm glad to hear you had no damage happen and you were able to continue your journey safe. Enjoy your trip and happy camping!

 

[TravelinRobert]

Thanks @DutchmenSport. Ive been pulling trailers of some sort for years. I always check status during fuel stops. Its not a matter of if a trailer tires will fail, its when! One day someone will make a tire that can last

 

[rickybobby]

I had noticed wear last year when we went to AZ, put our spare for return and bought a new tire to replace. This year wear again, had trailer aligned and 4 new tires, took on a 2k trip in September, all good.

 

[TravelinRobert]

Yeah I was concerned when I saw the wear, however the spare showed no signs of wear after 900 miles. Im thinking it was just the tire but im getting all new ones and will keep monitoring.

 

[GMcLawhon]

Last year I noticed my rear tire was wearing fairly quickly. I went about 100 miles further but decided to pull over a a rest stop off I-40 and I’m glad I did. I found the wet bolt
In the rear leaf spring on the passenger side was gone and the spring had lodged up against the frame! (See picture). As a result the axle had become a little crooked and started eating up the rear tires. 3 hours later I was back on the road after my RV road assist company sent out a mobile repair van who fixed it in the spot. Needless to say when I got home I had all the wet bolts replaced.

 

[TravelinRobert]

Nice catch. That's one of the items I checked as well.

 

[bigred715]

I suggest you get your axles aligned after buying new tires and balancing done. That worn tire you replaced shows that your axles need aligning.

 

[RetiredandRollin]

Well Karma and I made it to Houston almost without issue. First fuel stop in central illinois, doing my walk around and found one tire had bad wear , all the way to the belts and they were fraying out! Go to put on spare, realized i brought my battery impact but not the 1/2" impact sockets. . The "lug wrench" that aparently comes woth tbe unit, not worth the cheap chinese metal its made out of. Luckily a Walmart was 2 exits down, I limped to it and found the sockets. Put on the spare. Headed down the road, my brain started (Karma isnt a conversationalist unfortunatly) wondering why the tire had such bad wear on the inside. Bent axle, bad rim, axle alignment? The next and all subsequent stops showed no wear happening. Im chalking it up to the tire sidewall was bad and rode funny. So, ill be getting 4 new tires while in Houston.

 

[RetiredandRollin]

This may sound crazy but ask me why I know, check your leaf spring hangers. It's not a catastrophic issue as some would think, one can break and you can ride on it for hundreds of miles and never know, but the tire at that leaf spring will know. Not saying that's the problem, bur I had a hanger break and what attracted my attention to that area was how one tire was really bad while the rest were good, turns out one of my hangers busted an caused that one tire to ride kinda turned in. Just a thought

 

[TravelinRobert]

I checked them. But will recheck when I put new tires on.

 

[brycesteiner]

Was it hot? With that kind of wear, I would think there would be a drastic temp difference between tires. Is this a new Montana?

 

[TravelinRobert]

Its a 2017 Montana 3791RD. I don't know if it was hot, I was stopped for a bit before checking. After completing the rest of the trip with NO visible wear on the spare, I've pretty much concluded the tire sidewall failed or something with the tire itself. I literally cant even tell on the spare that it was even driven on at all.