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Originally Posted by Tireman9
OK. Well did you at least file complaints with NHTSA? Without complaints they will not start an investigation. No investigation = no finding No Finding = no recall No Recall = No incentive for tire companies to make better tires. "We have found the enemy and it is US.
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Even on a 5-6 year old tire? On the roads we drive on at the speeds we drive, and the loads we put on them?
IDK if you could call that a "defect" worthy of investigation. Mine were all covered under road hazard warranties, and I think that's right. My first one to go was the inside passenger dual, and I think the final straw was a particularly bad speed bump in a parking lot in Katy. The 2nd was driver front, and it started to let go after a trip around Dallas; I remember it being pretty bad roads. The last one was passenger side inner dual, and I think it just got old; it was 6 years of ownership, but I don't remember the build date on the tire. All Hankook tires, and we'd taken them all over the place, across some pretty bad roads, some
really bad ones...
Now, the first of ours that suffered belt separation, that was a somewhat "young" tire IIRC? That one
maybe would have been worth some kind of investigation. It seems like after about 4 years on these motor homes, depending on the tire, you're probably on borrowed time... Not because they're defective, but because we ask so much of them and beat the ever-loving snot out of them...
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-2018 Greyhawk 29MV
-2020 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited (JLU) (Primary Toad)
-1994 Jeep Wrangler YJ (Secondary Toad)
-2014 Jay Flight 28BHBE & Ram 2500 6.4L CC 4x4 (sold)