Re: [A/S] Trailer Tires

I am having great difficulty understanding why you would need to let out
all that "metric air" and
start over? Tires these days are marked in both systems and if your gauge
is metric and you inflate
to the specification on the tire it is exactly the same as the PSI spec.
Now if you are saying they inflated
your tires to the kPa spec used a PSI gauge I have a hard time believing
that too, 340kPa = 50psi, what
tire shop has a 400psi air system to even be able to do that to your tires?
VERY unlikely.

Steve

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Jerry Flanders <jeflanders@comcast.net>wrote:

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>
>
> On April 1, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Jerry Flanders wrote:
>
> We should be more careful about the kind of air we put in our tires.
> More and more tire sellers are inflating with metric air when they mount
> new tires. After returning from Canada on a recent trip, I found out too
> late that a service station had topped off my tires using metric. Two of
> them blew before I could even get home. I emptied and reinflated the
> others and it looks like they are OK for now, but I wonder about the
> future.
>
> In addition to the problems with the air, the metric system also uses
> different numbers than the American, putting more stress on the tires,
> wheels and axles.
>
> Jerry 4404
>
> On 3/22/2012 7:12 PM, dtbw wrote:
> > As compared to the damage that blowouts can cause, I will take the
> slightly stiffer ride issues any day. After many issues with numerous
> Marathons, I swapped out the rims for 16" high capacity, zero offset,
> aluminum rims and mounted Michelin LT tires (the rims had to be swapped to
> get to a suitable Michelin tire). Due to a slightly lower profile, the new
> tires have the same clearance in the wheel well as the Marathons. Not a
> single issue since (2+ years now). The new tires have significantly higher
> load-bearing capacity than the Marathons even at less than max pressure.
> The Michelins + CentraMatic dynamic balancers give the Bambi a glassy
> smooth ride. For the first time since buying the Bambi new in 2002, I
> actually think I will be able to run these tires for many years.
> >
> > David T
> > On Mar 22, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Steve Pfiffner wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I have heard the much stiffer sidewalls of truck tires can be hard on
> your
> >> trailer, the soft ride of ST (special trailer) tires is part of an
> >> Airstreams suspension system since the axles have very limited movement.
> >>
> >> Steve
> >> Urban Camping in the Dallas Design District
> >> http://turtlecreekglassworks.net/
> >>
> >>
> >> O
> >>
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