Trailering Alert- Recall
 

A manufacturer of tire valve stems has begun a nationwide recall. These stems are cracking and separating, causing rapid deflation. One fatality has already been connected to this issue. This affects 6 million valve stems dating back to mid-2006.

http://www.dillaircontrols.com/files...r%20Cracks.pdf

Check those trucks & trailers.

Chris,
thanks for the heads up. Your always seem to be looking out for your OSO brothers! I'll check those valve stems, before I move our boats this weekend out of IKE's path!:eek:
Dean

Thanks Chris for the info. I wonder if that might have coused my flip on the highway last year.:rolleyes:

A friend of mine bought a new f150 and 3 of the valve stems on the truck have gone bad. He took it to the dealer ship and they would not replace them. He had new ones put on all four tires.

Yep, had 2 on triple axle trailer go bad in a week.

Julie

It's a NHTSA campaign now. Thge mfg. is paying for it.

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/recalls...rue&refurl=rss

But who wouldn't gladly go out of pocket on something like thi?. I mean, that would be much better than finding out the hard way.

More China Crap ???????

This happened to me the weekend before the 4th of july.:mad: Tire max fixed it for free.

Yep.

yep again. This is what happens when we the voters let them the politicans(run by big bidness) ship our jobs overseas.

Sorry for the hijack Chris.

had three break right of in my hand when checking tire pressure the tire store replaced all six with what they call hi pressure stems they look like a brass stem with a rubber base good for 90 psi plus

Yep, more Chinese junk! :mad:
Sadly, someone has to die first before someone steps up!

someone should tell the local trailer parks too...:evilb:

Just had all 6 on my 2005 trailer replaced because of this.

Everyone of them looked like it was about 1 mile from falling off.

Yes sir, my first one was at the Sarasota Race on the forth and the 2nd 3 days after returning from the race.

Julie

We had two tires out of 6 on a triple axle trailer that had slow leaks. Had a tire go down towing back from Jax. Poker run last year. Lost air pressure and got hot. Put the spare on and it too was loosing air pressure checked it every hour till we got home. Found out it was the valve stems, and they were the high pressure ones with the brass stems. Had to replace all of them.

I need an attorney. !!!
Last year to KW run, on I-75.
NEW rear tire blew.
I'm totaly anal now about trailers and towing with the new boat and new trailer. (I always was, but 10 X more since)
I blamed the accident on faulty tires or road hazard, but always wondered about a rear tire blow out with road hazard, and brand new tire.
This valve thing makes sense.
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Had a friend with brand new Michelins on his truck and heard the recall on the radio. Within 2 days developed slow leaks on 2 tires. People are getting what they demanded and that's cheaper prices, and it all started with Walmart. Guess we should start using prisoners to do the mfg. so we can compete with China for what they pay their people. Damn commies.

On My 2001 Myco I had problem with the factory valve stems,usually would find it when washing the rims/tires, it was usually a slow leak until I hit it with a rag you could hear it hiss then. I had the Goodyear wrangler Ats tires they started blowing out the beginning of last year.Then I replaced all the tires and valve stems.Could of been from being 6 years old?


Ive also had them crack the same way on my trucks dually aftermarket rims

Cracking valve stems isn't something new or unusual. It's just with this batch it's happening quite a bit more. I was talking with my neighbor at lunch (He's a multi PhD polymer chemist for a rubber co. ) and he said alot of the Chinese stuff isn't compounded properly for UV and ozone protection.

The conversation then went about 80,000 feet over my head.

All three on the side of my trailer that has more sun exposure were cracked and leaking back in Feb. and the three on the opposite side were starting to go.

I immediately took it to the shop and had the metal stems put in. No more problemo's.

I just had 2 on my truck do the same thing,they still are failing.I ve been changing them out to the metal core ones, HD trucks

All those boats Sunkin had....I bet this was a real pain in the azz for that guy.....

But he was always lookin' out....:lolhit::evilb::coolcowboy:

now he's OUT...lookin' in.....:evilb::evilb::evilb:

Lol

I know how he must have felt...

I just had to replace all the stems on my 36', and 41' Apache trailers. The trailers for both my 47's were okay. :party-smiley-004:

You forgot about your Cig Mistress

Nah he sold that after being ejected out of that one due to a faulty valve stem on one of his bumpers!!!:angry-smiley-038: