April 22, 2023
If you are following our journey, you know we recently left Alabama to go to Louisiana. We discovered a tire problem as we went through our checklist. We replaced the failing tire with the spare tire.
On Monday (April 17), Bruce called around and found a place that would do a tire alignment on the truck. They told him to come on over and they would take care of it right away.
Bruce left right away. I got texts from him as the tire replacement happened.
Thank goodness we changed the tire before we left. Having a blowout on the truck while towing would have been a nightmare.
I am underwhelmed with the tires the truck came with. They have a lot of tread, but we’ve had to replace three tires in a little over a year. This is more tire problems than we’ve had than the previous twenty-five years.
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This definitely got your new tire. Anita
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We’ve replaced 3 tires out of the 7 tires we have. We have 6 tires on the truck and 1 spare. I could’ve done without the $400 bill. 😔
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Oh my word. Poor quality tires? I’m glad it was resolved and your safe.
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Thank you! I am glad our neighbor noticed the tire problem and we were able to use the spare. It looked scary to me to see how worn it looked on one part of the tread.
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🙏🌺
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Did they check the ball joints? I thought the wear on my right front tire was alignment, but the mechanic who has it now (for the brakes) says it’s ball joints, so they are getting done before I get the camper back; it then needs new front tires and an alignment.
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No, they didn’t. That’s good to know that there might be something wrong with the ball joints. Bruce will want to check that out.
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I guess the tires get more of a workout towing the RV than when just driving around?
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Yes, the tires have more load on them when towing. That said, we lost two tires just driving around.
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