Experience of the day

[franken60]

Alberta has been cruel to my rig today. Yesterday I noticed a very slight thud thud thud while driving at certain speeds, never seemed to change so I forgot about it. Today we pulled out of Banff to head towards Lake Louise. 15 minutes out of Banff, already noticing the thud thud thud, doing about 105kmh it suddenly became very loud which was quickly follow by a bang! And a the truck dropped that seemingly endless 12inches of sidewall to the pavement. Bead to bead from one side to the other ....gone

Anyways I had a full size matching spare on rim thank god, not my favourite tire (there's a reason I swapped it out) but it will do the trick. Jade stood there flagging the semis into the other lane while I swapped swapped it out. Back on the road and made it to Field BC for the night. Good to the back in the better province

All safe and sound and carrying on the trip for another week
Be back in May!

Rant end

 

[hellbent40]

That blows... glad no one got hurt..
Blew the rear bead...

 

[seapotato]

" thud thud" had me worried...

glad it's just a tire.

 

[Toshi38]

glad to see you're able to continue on and its just a tire! (I guess a screwed rim too?)

 

[GTSSportCoupe]

Glad you're ok and had the spare along! Also glad it was the rear not front. Rim looks ok? Have a nice drive back through BC.

 

[franken60]

I think the rim is OK but haven't taken a close look yet, we stopped pretty quick. Luckily I have another spare at home so all's good in that department

 

[crustyBJ60]

Glad you made out ok. That's a long way to drop with such a big beast.

 

[PeeZed]

Good thing you didn't have the 5spd in yet...you would've been doing like 140

 

[slowandsteady BJ]

Geeze. Nice save.

 

[franken60]

here it is, big o tires took it away
Top view and both sides of the tire

 

[cruiserpilot]

Hanging on by a thread...Weird separation. Glad you got it under control and no other problems. J

 

[seapotato]

Weird tires those mtr's...

That lumpy wear thing they do always drove me nuts

 

[slowandsteady BJ]

Thats the thing with 3b's..... they don't wear the tread fast enough. 37's last so long the tires die of old age long before the tread is gone. All the more reason to get a turbo and some lockers!

 

[Diesel Cruiserman]

True enough, age is not good for those tires, throw on a turbo and rip it baby...

 

[Diesel Cruiserman]

And throw in some lockers to rough them up a bit..

 

[franken60]

the new tires will feel the 3bt

 

[franken60]

actually ended up puncturing the spare on monday, luckily i heard it while flying down an fsr, pulled over ripped everything out of the back to find the patch kit (next time i wont bury it ) and managed to plug it before it got down to 20psi

 

[cruiserpilot]

Toyo's......they will definitely wear out before they age

 

[GTSSportCoupe]

Were those MTRs C-rated tires?

I was surprised when I put the C-rated 35x12.5" R15's on the Prado, as they were lighter than my tiny skinny E-rated 235/85R16. I do like the E-rated tires for the extra strength from more ply's. Although that many plys on a huge tire would make it ridiculously heavy....which is probably why they don't.

 

[franken60]

Were those MTRs C-rated tires?

I was surprised when I put the C-rated 35x12.5" R15's on the Prado, as they were lighter than my tiny skinny E-rated 235/85R16. I do like the E-rated tires for the extra strength from more ply's. Although that many plys on a huge tire would make it ridiculously heavy....which is probably why they don't.

Ya they were C rated, the do make 37's in e rated though. My buddies super swampers are and are insanely heavy
Next ones will be D rated