Caravan tyres

There have been several (many?) complaints about these tyres on SwiftTalk and it may be worth making a warranty claim as these specific tyre appear to be rubbish as regards aging.

Kwik Fit Mobile had van tyres at a good price, can cope with Tyrons, balanced them and service was excellent.

Just back from France and had to replace one of my Durun tyres because of side wall cracks. My van is a 2 year old Swift and it was the offside tyre that is no good. Luckily I spotted the cracks whilst in a service area. Changing a wheel in heavy rain is no fun. My dealer can expect a visit next week!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How old are the tyres?🤔

Lidosalpi. Further to MM's post; you can tell the age of the tyre by looking at the date stamp. It will be something like 3516 meaning made in 35th week of 2016.

It's not just budget tyres that can be affected.  Michelins were fitted to our Barcelona when we bought it new in 2015 and the tyres were dated just a month before the van was built.  After just over three years, I noticed serious cracks in the sidewall of  one of them.  The others appeared to be fine but I changed all four just in case.  Just not worth the risk.

I would be considering if the tyre Load Rating is adequate for the MTPLM.

We experienced the same problem with our 2016 Swift caravan back in July 2018 - Duran tyres!!

Made a claim on Swift, who replaced both tyres under warranty - obviously a known defect.

If you use a tyre fitter make sure they use the correct pressure, we had our changed this summer and they looked a bit soft, when I asked they insisted 35,psi was correct,  I insisted as well and they took them up to the recommended 60psi.  

hello,

we have a Swift and have had exactly the same problem. Two years old lots of cracks around the rims. They use poor quality tyres and there's little you can do only replace with a better brand.  Wish I had tried the dealer for replacements - but I probably wouldn't have got anywhere as I bought from Kimberley caravans from new. So many faults, so many excuses.

The tyre covers are a good idea, but you are better rid of those poor quality tyres, and you should still replace tyres every 5 years as it's not just the rubber that degrades. Safety first.

I have just found this post .

we have just taken our swift conqueror in to have it’s 3rd year service . I was told we need two new tyres due to cracking . In all our almost 30 years caravanning we have never needed to replace tyres after just 3 years . I was shocked.

also I asked how much we would need to find if we wanted to part ex our van .

they estimated a £9000 reduction on price from when we first bought it . 

I have been using our local dealer for many any years I think they have just become too big too busy and just don’t need the business anymore .