[encantotom]

a few observations from my tire fun of the last few weeks.

1. my tires were 5 years old. i was going to get one last trip out of them. probably about 20k miles on them.

2. i was NOT running tire monitors. i had some but they never worked right. it would not have caught my tag tire separation unless it caused the temp to go up and i have no idea if it would have.

3. i ordered new tire monitors

4. my front tire that went from 110 to 40 in one days driving plus overnite was almost 6 years old, but was nearly a year old when i got it due to 365's being hard to find it would have been caught by tire pressure monitors

5. my rear inner drive tire was full when i left and totally airless and bead broken when i checked it the next day. it would also been caught by the tire monitor

so....tire pressure monitors would have caught 2 of my 3 failures, but not sure of the 3rd.

key learning for me is three fold first is to ALWAYS check all your tires each morning. i could have had major damage if i had not caught them. second is i believe we should run tire pressure monitors. third is the worth of coach-net. they paid for the service call twice on my tires. wayyy more than the cost of the annual membership. they were kind, concerned followed up to make sure i was ok.

my two cents worth

tom