Lugusthedog
Active member
- First Name
- Lugus
- Joined
- Feb 16, 2021
- Threads
- 3
- Messages
- 43
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- 52
- Location
- Sun City Arizona
- Vehicles
- 2021 F150 Platinum Maxtow 3.5 EB
- Occupation
- retired
- Thread starter
- #16
Hi Jack, My comment about Hankooks not inspiring confidence is mostly about my advanced age and knowledge of the tire market. They are not a familiar name to me. and also made in Korea as are flatags. As I mentioned they drove fine so I have no current plans to replace them with a name brand (bridgestone/Michelin) I am familiar with.Luges, I heard an interesting comment from an auto field engineer about your Hankooks. He said a large part of the claims about ‘China Bombs’ was the confusion between correlation and causation. Most RV tire failures are with China manufactured tires, yes. But thats because most RVs are sold with China tires, IOW correlation. But as Norris (see above) points out, many RV owners are unaware of weight management. And due to that, most Owners don’t install RV TPMS systems nor do they pay much attention to tire care, which is causation. The engineer’s view was that, if you looked at RVs operated with TPMS across all tire brands, you would see low and comparable failure rates. Which is what you see today with passenger cars, he stated, as TPMS systems are now widely installed. So if you aren’t running with a RV TPMS system, it might be worth doing, no matter which tires you end up with.
Jack
My RV tires are westlakes, also a question mark to me but receive as good a rating as anything.
I do run a TPMS system on the RV (TST507), it does add some piece of mind that it can detect an issue on drive days.
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