Dan: Point well taken, in fact, Goodyear, and others are developing a tire pressure warning device of some sort that alerts the driver that he is in the runflat mode to prevent such catastrophic failures. as best I can figure, they are using a pressure transducer and radio transmitter combination that attaches
to the valve stem of the tire. Obviously there are some problems with this too, so we will see what the solution ends up being !

Doug

Dan Burwinkel wrote:

> Doug, Ned and others,
>
> I would be cautious about run flat tires on a trailer. My reason for this
> is that when you get a flat or low tire on run flats, you don't feel a
> profound difference, just a suttle handling change. I think that this
> change would be completely missed on a trailer and you would tend to not
> know you have a low tire or a flat until the tire fails catastrophically. I
> have driven a car with run flats and not known a tire was low until the tire
> overheated and blew a sidewall, very dangerous. Just my opinion, but I
> think it deserves a little more investigation!
>
> Dan burwink@fuse.net
>
> >Ned: Check out Goodyear; I saw some LT rated tires in the new run flat
> >design. Looks interesting for sure.
> >
> >Doug