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  1. 7 hours ago, RPM said:
    19 hours ago, G650 said:
    Mack CXU613. Tractor was golden. The 55 ton Fontaine trailer had all she wanted though. Maybe get another 5-8k out of it if we jacked the rear ride height up a little.
    I don't really drive these days, once in a blue moon. My lowboy driver was doing this, he was happy as shit to have some weight back there. Don't have many big machines anymore.
    We used to haul 100,000 lb 962 Liebherrs on with Ford L9000 and 35 ton Rogers trailer lol. Back in the day when anything goes.

    Sounds like when I was driving back in the day. We hauled batch plants and equipment from job to job. Asphalt dryer weighed 185K. Farthest I hauled it was Sweetwater to Crown Point, NM. Damn thing had 6 axles with small tires. Was constantly stopping to change blowouts on hot days.

     

    Definitely a different time. Wonder why we had to replace the trailers every couple years...

     

    We also had this home built concrete crusher that weighed god knows what. Thing had three axles, you could see the sidewalls bulging. Never took it more than a few miles in surface roads, was happy as shit to see that thing go.

  2. Mack CXU613. Tractor was golden. The 55 ton Fontaine trailer had all she wanted though. Maybe get another 5-8k out of it if we jacked the rear ride height up a little.

    I don't really drive these days, once in a blue moon. My lowboy driver was doing this, he was happy as shit to have some weight back there. Don't have many big machines anymore.

    We used to haul 100,000 lb 962 Liebherrs on with Ford L9000 and 35 ton Rogers trailer lol. Back in the day when anything goes.

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  3. 2 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

    The Goodstone issues of yesteryears has not to do with RFT.  It was a large failure in engineering and/or manufacturing that caused the catastrophic de-treading.

    Fireyear could just as well have sloppily made an RFT that self destructed on the road and it wouldve killed folks as well.

    The RFT as it is offered today, offers driveability in case of punctures.  It does this with extra structural parts that adds weights at the expense of suppleness, comfort, and performance.  I dont think it assures integrity in case you run over a honeybadger or a landmine.

    Porsche factory specs are N-labeled tires, and AFAIK no Porsches have ever been stocked with runflats.  So its not an upmarket/highperformance thing either.  They are by and large a BMW thing.  

     

    I didn't say they had anything to do with run flat, I'm saying when it goes wrong, it goes really wrong. It's binary operation.

    The N label Porsche tires are run flat is what I'm telling you. They way the tires are constructed means you can drive them essentially for a day with no air in them and the carcass won't come apart. And yes, they do offer protection from land mine type impact as I can attest to. You are getting hung up on the run flat label and/or suckered by the tires companies marketing and not listening to what I'm saying.

    tl;dr There's a big regulatory hole in tires, and you should not buy ones that don't maintain integrity with instant air loss at high speed. A lot of the ones you consider safe are not.

     

     

  4. 14 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

    [incidence rate * severity] doesnt really warrant RF or put it anywhere near the level of the seat belt.

     

     

     

    Yeah, it does actually. You are underselling the severity multiplier by like infinity billion.

    There's a reason why Firestone, Goodyear et al. are paying out insane amounts for there defective tires, when one cuts loose at speed it's a catastrophic incident. We aren't talking about punctures, we are talking about total failure, which is what happens to even non defective tires that will happily roll for 10s of thousands of miles on their own. The run flat carcasses keep integrity. You don't even have to call them run flats if you don't want, like a I said most race and performance tires are built this way. The Michelin Pilot SS comes on Ferraris and Porches and is built to be contained, and you be pretty hard pressed to find a better performing tire. Offroad tires are like this too, with kevlar belting and tons of plys. It's you average passenger car tires which suck.

     

    Again, it's not about driving them flat, it's about bringing a vehicle to a stop from 80-90 mph without flipping, crossing a lane, or hitting a tree.

  5. The Goodyear I lost was an MT/R that just cut  loose on it's own. I guess a belt broke in it, and the tire just shredded itself. The rim was a Bridgestone Dueler run flat that literally was one fucking day old. It didn't even puncture the tire, but exploded the rim. I also had a rebar tail go through the sidewall of 38" Super Swamper SX, but I was able to patch it since they have kevlar in them.

    Honestly, car tires are death traps by and large. Anyone who isn't running run flats is straight up regarded. They are a top three safety feature of all time, up there with the seat belt.

    Truck tires are built so robustly that they effectively are all run flat, and a lot of performance tires are too. The Pilot SS has Twaron fibers which will keep the carcass intact. Actually driving somewhere on run flats isn't the point, it's getting the car to a stop from high speed under control.

  6. 5 minutes ago, Okie State said:
    6 minutes ago, G650 said:
    Lol. I wouldn't recommend putting a softball sized hole in your rim man.
     
    I'm 100% pro full size spare. Like I said, I drove an X5 from Washington D.C. to Virginia Beach on the space saver spare before. Took me like 6 hours.

    Ha, yeah we agree there. That would be shitty.

    I think is was a manual transmission without the bellhousing.

     

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  7. Just now, Okie State said:
    1 hour ago, G650 said:
    I wouldnt recommend it. Having blown out a regular tire tire at 80 as well, I can tell you regular tires are fucking terrible compared to run flats.

    Wouldn't recommend which part? Having a full-size spare? Gonna have to disagree there.

    Lol. I wouldn't recommend putting a softball sized hole in your rim man.

     

    I'm 100% pro full size spare. Like I said, I drove an X5 from Washington D.C. to Virginia Beach on the space saver spare before. Took me like 6 hours.

  8. 4 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said:

    I recommend not blowing out tires.

    This would be my opinion as well. Now you could get Goodyear on board and the junk man that spread car parts all over I-95 wiping out half a dozen other cars we would be in good shape.

     

  9. 15 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    my one and only experience in a Fiat was a 500 rented in Italy. 

    motherfucker literally couldnt go up a hill.  pathetic.  that and some shit opel in spain... never ever driving again.

    VW Polo and Golf are common offering and these are good rides.  Skoda are great if you need personal and luggage space

    I had one of those Fiats in Croatia, was not very good.

    The worst was some fucking Hyundai in Germany with like a 1 liter engine. Five fat dudes and that thing would barely get up a hill.

  10. 9 hours ago, Southland said:

    Munich is my favorite city I've visited in Europe. Would love to do a European delivery of a BMW at the factory and road trip it around Bavaria one of these days.

    Yeah, I love Munich. I was on a Oktoberfest tear for quite a few years, but haven't been in 3 or 4.

     

    Trying to convince Liebherr (who I buy my excavators from) to take us over for a blowout Wiesn event, then convalesce in Innsbruck after.

  11. 9 hours ago, Okie State said:

    Can't say that I have. I did get a flat in the middle of nowhere New Mexico and drove all the way back to Houston on my full-size spare. I always get a full-size spare if it's available.

    I wouldnt recommend it. Having blown out a regular tire tire at 80 as well, I can tell you regular tires are fucking terrible compared to run flats.

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