so that is a sound nobody wants to hear
hey y'all where jimmy and lisa with find us camping and today's tuesday talks for rvers is
all about the sound that you don't want to hear really you do want to hear it because what that
is is um it's letting you know it's doing its job in letting you know that something has failed so
as we're driving down the road 55 60 miles an hour we hear that sound that
and when you hear that sound the first thing you think is oh so we're driving down the road
and we notice that we have a tire going down again very quickly but just to put it out there
our goodyear endurance tires wasn't the issue we have the tire monitor system on our tires
and we have the the non-pass-through kind and as we're driving in centrifugal force it pushes
it up against the wheel and as we slow down it comes back to where it's supposed to be and as
we speed up it goes back out so so there's a lot of back and forth on that little valve stem that
is rubber by the way because they're higher high pressure valve stems that was on the
on the trailer when we got it so but the problem isn't the pressure
it's not the pressure of the air that's in there it's the back and forth movement
because that tpms is on the end so it causes it with centrifugal force to go out and back in so
as we're driving down the road and we hear that unwanted noise and we quickly pull off
because you think it's a tire getting ready to shred and fall to pieces we rip the valve stem
i'm not a tire person but i have had many a flat tire in my life i've never seen a valve stem it
was split from the threaded part where the little cap screws on all the way back to the tire so we
pull off on the side of the road we get ready to level it on up to get the tire off and she says
we're not level i said this is really unlevel you know like sometimes the shoulder kind of drops off
and it's full of potholes that's the way it was so i say fine get on your phone
let's google for a place we can go up the road so she finds a parking ride up the road
right up there you can see it it's at the top of the exit ramp and when we go but it's not a
parking rod according to google it's a fireworks store so i'm thinking it's a fireworks store and
and certainly they get their fireworks on like some sort of tractor trailer so there ought to
be room enough for us to get in there and get turned around we're not getting turned around
in there so we start driving down this side road limping along beep beep this side road that is so
narrow in places it doesn't even have a center line so you know it with the rv that's that tall
so we're scraping the sides scraping the top going down we're going about five miles an
hour making up and down the hill going around here going around there and i'm thinking oh no
and i'm looking at google maps the whole way looking for like a pull-off somewhere
something that looks like there's a church surely they have a big parking lot except
the church i'm pretty sure is in somebody's house or garage straight up a gravel drop so the only
thing i can think of is when i'm running in this dead end at the end of this i'm have to back
that big monster back all the way down this road ain't happening thank goodness we come around the
corner and there's a pull off and we were able to change the tires just big enough for us like
it was like it was made for us now we didn't argue we didn't fight nope we had we laughed we got it
out and i was saying please please find us a place but when we did find a spot to pull over the view
holy crap the view was amazing like i stopped we stopped to take pictures
before we changed the tire we pulled off on this side and on the other side of the road literally
the man and his wife were out there mowing grass and it was like she had to push mow most of it
there was very little he could ride with the rod mower because it was such a decline um but the
view off that mountainside was just beautiful and thankfully once we got the tire changed i walked
over and asked the fella i said if we keep going straight down this road is there a place for us
to turn around should we start trying to back up now what are my options and as fate would have it
this man's a truck driver so he doesn't drive his truck down that road though
yeah he says you can keep going but it gets kind of tight down there and you'll make it
but if there's somebody coming the other way they're gonna have to back up because i'm not
somebody's gonna have to back up and clearly you know that's not probably going to be us so
he takes it down a winding road and tells us good aaron turn right go over to the playground
pull up towards the playground and you'll have a row behind you back up into the road
turn around and you're you're home set so all in all for a flat tire this is our second flat tire
we've done very very very very good so it worked out very well the tire monitor system did exactly
what it's supposed to do it stinks at their rubber the rubber valve stems and it went back and forth
and it ripped but that's the way it goes so we got back on the road we got back up here to indiana
we went straight to the tire store and said i want these valve stems out and i want to put
the metal ones in so we don't have any issue and you guys said for monteiths i think is
how you pronounce it in indianapolis they took it right in right then replaced the valve stem
and pumped it full of air and gave it back he wasn't even in there ten minutes we're going by
there tomorrow to get the rest of them all the rest of the seven of them done and we have to
take them off they said to pull it up they'll take care of it so we're going to pull them so tell us
tell us your story have you guys had a story of a flat tire that went bad went good on wood both of
our flat tires have gone good so i guess if it is a tire i i credit the tpms so don't go anywhere
without a tpm yeah do you have a tpms do you have a praise your tpms story because ours has been um
saved us twice yeah twice so it's worth it so if you don't have one better get you one
we have a link below for one of our the one that we use you don't like ours yeah i don't
care if you use that but i'm telling you i'm telling you now you better get you one so
hopefully you don't have any stories of bad tires going bad
fear that the tire is going to shred you know you see these campers out on the road and in
campgrounds where the skirting's all ripped off we had we had friends that their tire
blew like blue shredded ripped off part of their skirting damaged their steps and broke their brake
line all at the same time so that was a bad bad stop for them so thankfully that's never happened
to us and i hope it's never happened to any of you but if you if it has share your story below
or share your good story below where your tpms went off and you got off the side of the road and
didn't have any damage to your rig because that's a way better story and make sure
if you have a tpms and your friends don't share this video with them because it might help them so
hopefully liking these tuesday talk videos that we're doing i'd rather do a tuesday talk for
something that hasn't happened to us but if it helps helps you down the road i'd rather share
like a fun tip or something than a blow but at the end of the day it was a flat tire not a blown tire
and it was just the valve stem and that's fixable so so like i said if you're liking them
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until the next time you see us changing our tires on the side of the road safe travels y'all
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