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Originally Posted by switz
While your trailer should be insured against damage, a major tire incident is not a freebee. The deductable has to be paid along with all the expenses associated with getting the trailer to a repair location and the loss of personal time dealing with the situation. Not every Airstream dealer has a factory trained metal smith.
Unless one gets under the trailer to see the other side of the tire to check for abnormal bulges or cracks and moves the trailer a few feet after the initial visual inspection to see the part of the tread that was in contact with the pavement at first, a thorough inspection was not done.
My experience with the GYM tires was air pressure went down in less than two weeks of storage. My Michelins maintain pressure for months while the trailer is stored.
So checking the GYM tire pressure every morning while the tires are cool with a precision digital tire gage and having an air compressor along to top up the pressure to 65 psi would be prudent while maintaining a speed at 65 mph or lower on hot days like in the Southwest in the summer.
When buying a new trailer that has been on the dealer's lot a long time (check the data tag on the street side front of the trailer for the build year and month), also check the tire manufacture date which is a four digit number (week-week-year-year). If the tires are already a year old, see if part of the deal can be new tires. Folks here have strongly suggested a three year from date of manufacture life cycle for the GYM tires.
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Checking tire pressure in the AM only tells you that you already have a leak. I does nothing to warn you of any leak that occurs as you pull out of the campground or travel down the highway or even if you caused a leak with the valve core having a bit of grit allowing a slow ( 1 psi per minute) leak which was the probable reason for this failure
Maybe you need a TPMS or at least need to read my web page blog on tire leak and failures.
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