Wow, make sure you check your tyres every time you take your van out

I read elsewhere that the tyre had blown.....very scary. What scares me even more is that there doesn't seem to be a definitive answer to setting tyre pressures. I've read so much about the make of tyre, manufacturers reccomendations....both tyre and conversions. Mosr motorhomes are 3,500 and run pretty near to capacity......why cant there be a standard. I get my tyres at a commercial tyrefitters and let him set the pressures,
 
I think the offside rear let go, if you look at the white gouge that appears on the road surface it looks like it was on the rim by then….
 
From my experience..
Tyre fitting shops and dealers shove 5 bar in... And a bit more in the spare, for luck.
We had no end of problems, after a puncture, in the Spanish Outback..
The tyre eventually went convex and wore a strip away, in the centre.
I lashed out on a digital tyre guage, after that..
Still got it..
 
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Pauljenny said:
From my experience..
Tyre fitting shops and dealers shove 5 bar in... And a bit more in the spare, for luck.
We had no end of problems, after a puncture, in the Spanish Outback..
The tyre eventually went convex and wore a strip away, in the centre.
I lashed out on a digital tyre guage, after that..
Still got it..
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Hope you did not pay an INFLATED price for it GAUGING by how much money you keep in the underpants. 😂
 
"These clumsy, top heavy, poorly driven vehicles are an absolute menace. I live in the SW and incompetent drivers visit the area, block the lanes/roads, inhibit views and cause mayhem on the already overcrowded roads and lanes. They are, quite simply, too many of them often driven by nervous and inexperienced drivers"

Not a fan of MH's then. :cautious:
 
I just watched the video frame by frame and the driver steers right then once in the fast lane tries to recover by oversteering left. He steers whilst the vehicle is driving straight so I doubt it was a blowout, he would be more likely to steer to regain control after the vehicle changed course. As he steers the rear left of the vehicle drops as it would be expected to, the rear right stays the same so the tyre was intact at that point. The front right of the vehicle does not drop so it is not a front right blow-out either. It is more likely that the rear off-side tyre blew during the spin because of the forces on it. Just my opinion.
 
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izwozral said:
"These clumsy, top heavy, poorly driven vehicles are an absolute menace. I live in the SW and incompetent drivers visit the area, block the lanes/roads, inhibit views and cause mayhem on the already overcrowded roads and lanes. They are, quite simply, too many of them often driven by nervous and inexperienced drivers"

Not a fan of MH's then. :cautious:
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This guy knows what he’s talking about Ral give him a break.
It astonishes me that vehicles that make up only 0.04% of vehicles on the road can cause so much bother for the 99.6% who drive perfectly. :)
 
A proper campervan would be more than capable of 70mph in the outside lane. This thing, however, is a motorhome, with a totally different profile. Thousands of these things are plying our roads since lockdown caused the mass panic purchasing of such vehicles.

I just love reading expert opinions
:)
 
Philip Tomlinson said:
I just watched the video frame by frame and the driver steers right then once in the fast lane tries to recover by oversteering left. He steers whilst the vehicle is driving straight so I doubt it was a blowout, he would be more likely to steer to regain control after the vehicle changed course. As he steers the rear left of the vehicle drops as it would be expected to, the rear right stays the same so the tyre was intact at that point. The front right of the vehicle does not drop so it is not a front right blow-out either. It is more likely that the rear off-side tyre blew during the spin because of the forces on it. Just my opinion.
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I could go with that, perhaps the initial cause was over correction of the ‘passing a lorry’ sway?
 
On a more serious note :(

You only have to read some of the comments after the video to see why we are treated so poorly.
Referring to a motorhome as a THING pretty well sums up the ignorance out there.
And this person could be a councillor, with the power to stop you from enjoying yourself.
 
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