still looking and kinda leaning to duel axel not just because the size im thinking would be duel but kida like the idea in case of a flat as assume could still move a little bit to get to a park area or am i wrong?
Peter_n_Margaret said
04:38 PM Jan 15, 2021
There is not a stability problem having a flat on a single axle trailer, but if you keep driving, you will quickly risk the destruction of that flat tyre (and probably the rim too) irrespective of if it is a single or dual axle, so best to stop and change it ASAP.
Cheers,
Peter
PeterD said
11:43 AM Jan 16, 2021
Occasionally the only way I have known I had a flat tyre on my single axle van was by looking in the rearview mirror. When the tyre goes down the heater wires in the rear window of the tug are no longer parallel with the horizontal lines on the front of the van. When things got a bit rough I had to look in the mirror to see if I had a flat on the van or I was travelling on a rough surface. I have now fixed that with a TPMS.
Dual axles do not give you any great safety factor increase over single axles. Nor do they give any better directional stability as some people claim.
watsea said
12:22 PM Jan 16, 2021
I have a dual axle Jayco pop top.
Last outing, I lost a rear left wheel. I did notice a slight change of attitude of the van on some highway undulations before reaching Dalby, from the east, but nothing too major. Thinking it was a change in the cross fall of the roadway. Van seemingly was towing ok. Stopped at Chinchilla for breakfast. OMG. A wheel gone.
Luckily no suspension or van damaged. Only some minor wheel stud damage. By chance, we had parked about 70 metres from the Bridgestone dealer who had wheel nuts for our spare.
Whenarewethere said
01:00 PM Jan 16, 2021
This is where TPMS is brilliant, you can see pressure dropping a bit. There is also an alarm for preset pressure + & - 8psi so unless you have an instant destruction you will have enough time to pull over safety & fix the problem.
Apart from being safer you will save a fortune avoiding buggering up the caravan, or worse!
Dancerman said
07:34 AM Jan 22, 2021
Nice info, when I start travelling I will carry studs and nuts for the van the last two tips have been west and north west of NSW, and no issues
Brian
erad said
07:45 AM Jan 22, 2021
One of the reasons for losing a wheel is that people do not check the stud tension (and tyre pressures) before they leave home. With painted Sunraysia wheels, it is recommended to check the stud tension several times from new because the paint under the nut contact area gets crushed and therefore the nuts lose their tension. Loose wheel nuts can cause fatigue in the wheel studs and then you lose a wheel.
Far more wheels fall off caravans and camper trailers than ever from cars. Wrecked trailers with wheels torn off, or stub axles broken, litter mainly corrugated outback tracks. It does not, however, affect all trailers. If you inspect them you will find that almost all not just lack shock absorbers most lack provision for fitting them.
Cheers,
Peter
Long Weekend said
10:31 AM Jan 22, 2021
Hmmm = once again there is a fight (DUEL) between single and DUAL axles for vans!
Murray
Greg 1 said
11:41 AM Jan 22, 2021
One of the biggest reasons for losing a wheel is incorrectly torqued wheel nuts.
Whenever possible, these should be done up with a torque wrench set to the correct torque.
As many wheels are lost due to the studs being stretched due to some gorilla on the wheel brace over torquing them than not being done up.
Caravan studs are not truck studs and you do not have to jump up and down on the end of the wheel brace to tension them correctly.
Can't seem to see a driver in that car? Perhaps he has gone in search of a brain? People who set sail in vehicles such as this need to be forced to undergo some sort of intelligence test.Perhaps someone can correctly identify the car,but it looks like an LC200.No matter what it is,you can be sure that if the van needs to have 4 axles to carry its own weight,the car amd van are WAAAY over GCM,not to mention rear axle weights. The more I think about it,the more I think that this is some sort of a stunt.....surely nobody would be that stupid? Cheers.
Eaglemax said
08:57 PM Jan 22, 2021
After nearly losing a wheel I carry a torque wrench and socket in my boot. At the commencement of every towing day they are checked and often have loosened a little.
Could be the crappy steel used for the rims but it's piece of mind anyway.
still looking and kinda leaning to duel axel not just because the size im thinking would be duel but kida like the idea in case of a flat as assume could still move a little bit to get to a park area or am i wrong?
Cheers,
Peter
Dual axles do not give you any great safety factor increase over single axles. Nor do they give any better directional stability as some people claim.
I have a dual axle Jayco pop top.
Last outing, I lost a rear left wheel. I did notice a slight change of attitude of the van on some highway undulations before reaching Dalby, from the east, but nothing too major. Thinking it was a change in the cross fall of the roadway. Van seemingly was towing ok. Stopped at Chinchilla for breakfast. OMG. A wheel gone.
Luckily no suspension or van damaged. Only some minor wheel stud damage. By chance, we had parked about 70 metres from the Bridgestone dealer who had wheel nuts for our spare.
This is where TPMS is brilliant, you can see pressure dropping a bit. There is also an alarm for preset pressure + & - 8psi so unless you have an instant destruction you will have enough time to pull over safety & fix the problem.
Apart from being safer you will save a fortune avoiding buggering up the caravan, or worse!
Nice info, when I start travelling I will carry studs and nuts for the van
the last two tips have been west and north west of NSW, and no issues
Brian
Collected articles by Collyn Rivers (rvbooks.com.au)
wheels falling off trailers (rvbooks.com.au)
Cheers,
Peter
Murray
Bob
Even more with quad axles!
Can't seem to see a driver in that car? Perhaps he has gone in search of a brain? People who set sail in vehicles such as this need to be forced to undergo some sort of intelligence test.Perhaps someone can correctly identify the car,but it looks like an LC200.No matter what it is,you can be sure that if the van needs to have 4 axles to carry its own weight,the car amd van are WAAAY over GCM,not to mention rear axle weights. The more I think about it,the more I think that this is some sort of a stunt.....surely nobody would be that stupid? Cheers.
After nearly losing a wheel I carry a torque wrench and socket in my boot. At the commencement of every towing day they are checked and often have loosened a little.
Could be the crappy steel used for the rims but it's piece of mind anyway.
Tony