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Originally Posted by uavpilotmk
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I’ve read a lot of this kind of reporting about RV tires over the past 12-14 years. None that I’ve read have ever got beyond the bickering stage.
The experts in the tire & RV industries know the failure rates and what the major causes are. They have told consumers over and over again to no avail.
Tire forensic science must produce factual information/proof that the tire actually had defects that caused the failure. Without such proof talk is hogwash.
The only benefit - if one wants’ to call it that - is bad publicity about a name brand tire that in most cases is going to cause the builder to change the name and advertise the new brand as being better. The really bad part is if such a suit was won; the OEM provider for “off shore” tires would end-up having to pay and that would put them out of business.
We don’t really know what materials are actually in our tires. For instance, do you know that China tire builders can use nearly 25% of recycled tire rubber in the mix to build new tires? Tire manufacturers talk about compounds without really saying what their actual ingredients are, unless they are common to most all tires, like carbon black. Why? Confidentiality!