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Originally Posted by niknas
Lost a Goodyear Marathon on my annual trip this year to Baja Sur. The tire was 2 years old with plenty of thread.This is my second Marathon failure in 11 years of towing my Airstream. My third set of Marathons. The first failure was also a total failure with wheel well damage also and some minor body damage.
I would like to have a tire that if it fails, it would not be a total massive failure as have been the Marathons. I am now ready to try a different brand.
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Well Nik when tires fail in many cases they do exactly what your Marathons do. It's a matter of the steel belts found in many radial tires that cause the damage.
I guess the real question comes as to why the tire failed. Obviously from the point of failure your speed and air temperature doesn't lend any contributing factors. The question with any tire failure is whether there were conditions that occurred before failure that could have caused this tire to become subject to future failure. Obviously things like low air pressure, excessive speed, overloading, UV deterioration, alignment or balance issues, road hazards, and driver induced damage can potentially plant the seed for a future failure.
This is what makes this thread so difficult to interpret for many of us. A tire that fails may have no issues prior to its immediate failure. The skeletons of the past in many cases may truly sow the seeds of the failure. So when you hit the curb on a tight turn, or hit that pothole, who knows if that's when the seeds of failure were sewn.
As noted in many threads that I have posted in, I've become a firm believer in not overloading, maintaining proper air pressures, maintaining speeds at or below the tires ratings, and regular replacement regardless of tire appearance or depth. With that in mind I've lost one tire in 28 years of towing and that was my fault due to under inflation where I broke the bead on the tire during a back in to my driveway.
Needless to say maybe I'm lucky, maybe I haven't hit that pothole yet. Bottom line as noted earlier we need to understand that the most recent towing experience may have nothing to do with the cause of a tire to fail.
Jack