Coming back from Dockwieler RV park, did not feel it when if happened, stopped about 80 miles from the RV park to feed my son and thats when I noticed it. I have no idea how long I was driving with the damaged tire

I need to find a new fender, if I can't find one to match the other side, I guess I can buy two new ones that will fit. Any ideas where to purchase OEM or aftermarket? Trailer is a Thor Tahoe 26FS 2008

Tires were in excellent condition as far as I can tell, almost 3 years old though, wonder if I should replace them all just to be on the safe side

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Will probably need the aluminum diamon plate as well^^

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something caused the belts to shift and seperate for it to lose the tread like that. either hitting something or more likely from scrubbing from tight u-turns or such. its obviously not a carlisle seeing as it didnt explode when the tread came off. they look like greenball highway masters, i had them on my old trailer, good tires.

depending on where your located, might try walt's rv in fontana. everyone says they have anything and everything for rvs

From my experience when one goes the others arent far behind.3 years is good be dafe and not worry replace the other 3 tires.I have replaced 2 in the last year just cant afford to do all so aint using trailer til i replace the other 2.MIne are 4 years old

I replace trailer tires every 3 years regardless of how they look. With tandem or especially triple axles the drag when turning tears the belts up. It's just not worth the expense and headaches to have a blowout that has the possibility of tearing up the trailer.

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J

This could have been worse, good thing you stopped to feed the kid.

I second walts's rv.

I looked into replacing the fender on my Attitude, it's a cheap plastic fender and the screws pulled through. They wanted $280, I spent 98 cents for washers and used some left over drywall screws.

Thanks for the help, will search for Walts RV's phone #.

They are Highway Masters, made in Taiwan. I have 4 utility trailers that I use in my business and have never had the tread come off of them like this. have had Tansmaster, Carlisle, and a few other brands.

Too bad Costco doesn't carry Maxxis tires anymore, they had the best prices on trailer tires.

Found a place in Chino that carries hard to find parts for Thor Tahoe's, Vortex, Jazz and a few other trailers. Sent them an email with pictures and will wait for a reply ot see if have what I need.

rvpartsspecialist.com

Called Walt's and was on hold for about 15 minutes, lost patience and hung up.

Here's a pic of the other side of trailer, it's on the side of my house so I couldn't get a better pic

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File a claim with the tire manufacturer, you might get lucky and they'll pay for all the damages. Happened to me with some Goodyear tires, they paid for everything, including new tires all the way around. Make sure you save the tire that went.

I was going to suggest Walt's also, but since they made you wait...

K+N has treated me great.
K+N Customs

Didn't think of this, thanks fro the idea!

have to go with K&N. Always treated me very well. Cant go wrong

YEP!! gotta go with K&N Customs.... good guys!!

How did things work out for you ?. Did RVpartsspecialist send you an E-mail back ?

Found 3 of my tires ( Transmasters) starting to separate last trip out. Replaced them in Brawley, by the time I got home the other three were showing signs...

I ended up replacing all 6 with Firestone LT tires. I wanted the Michelin XPS Ribs, but too spendy right now.

I say swap them all. And I didnt do it this time, I figured they were too old to argue with the manufacturer, but on my old trailer Carslisle was really quick to make a deal to replace all their crap tires...

Nope, never heard from them them, eff them! Still haven't found something that works, though I have not tried looking to hard. I did take the trailer to a local RV repair shop for a genny issue and they told me they could find a pair that would work, just haven't taken it back to them. Will do it soon.

On the next trip to Dockweiler, ANOTHER tire lost it's tread and did not notice it until I had the trailer parked at the beach! Tread did not take the fender this time! (other side of trailer) Once again no idea how long I was driving with it like that, but I said eff it, new tires all around. Got there on Friday afternoon, called all around, found a place in Long Beach to order me some new E rated tires, took off all 4 off the trailer, had them mounted on trailer by Saturday evening.

The following are two companies that are amazing for all sorts of RV parts that are no longer available from the manufacturer...

http://rvpartssierra.com

http://all-rite.com

And All-Rite usually can make any product in 48 hours.

KING!!! YOU ARE THE MAN!!

I think I found the exact part!

De-treading tires does a lot more damage than a blowout. A rear tire de-treaded on my Excursion and wiped out the rear fender. Nothing that a little bondo couldn't cure though...

I can't get two years out of the Carlisle E rated tires. My 26 foot Tahoe came with Carlisle D tires, and I smoked through those quickly. I replaced all of them at Discount / All American Tires for the Carlisle E tires. They blow just as fast. Discount won't carry them anymore and are going with Transmaster. Great warranty at Discount too. Once you pay the initial new tire price, they replace the blow outs for hardly anything. I've paid about 16 bucks for each of the Transmaster tires. Only one Carlisle left on my trailer, you'll probably see me somewhere on the road between San Diego and Glamis changing it out before this summer. It's a time bomb, tick tock, tick tock.....

Try calling back east to Elkheart Indiana almost all the trailers are made there I've heard you can order them on the phone and have them shipped. Call the long distance operator
good luck

Wow, didn't know you could still do that. Do I spin the "0" on the rotary dial?