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You can find white covers at any RV supply store and at lots of dealers....and some Wal Marts. IMHO, the neatest covers are made by Magne Shade. They are black Sunbrella, shaped like the tire (hole in the middle), cover the whole tire and held on by bungee cords. I had five of their window covers on a previous coach and have six tire covers for this one. Top quality products. www.magneshade.com

Agree. I have three axles and three different tire pressures. Each axle should have tire pressure noted in the appropriate manual using the heavy side of the axle. Most people add 10 lbs or 10% to that number. My Michelins were cracking at six and a half years, so I just had 315 Continentals put on the front and 295/80s Toyos on the rear.

I appreciate all the responses to my question. As noted, my previous experience has been like most of yours, all my previous duallies have had the valves directly opposite and across from each other. Having said that, Monday morning I called Michelin, Continental and Toyo. All agreed with tireman9 that the position of the two air valves is irrelevant. One engineer at Toyo explained that weight/balance is not an issue and as long as there are no kinks in the inner dually extension, and both are easily accessible to check the tire pressure....and add air if necessary, the valves can be anywhere. Then I went to the shop that installed the tires, a national company, and told the the shop foreman I just had some RV tires installed and asked how the valves were usually located when installing dually tires. He never hesitated and said, "across from each other." I told him about my tires and the location of the valves...I took the MH in today and they moved the outside dually so the valves are now across from each other. Maybe a wasted effort, but at least they did not charge me. However, upon getting back to where I store the MH, being the old pilot I am, I checked the company's work. The entire dually hub was about to fall off, it had never been other than hand tightened. I tightened it with a strap wrench. It seems to be getting more difficult to find competent service providers in all types of work.

I purchased my tires through Continental. Very easy all I did was give them my FMCA card, they made a copy....that was it. I did talk to Michelin, they made it sound very complicated and since my last Michelins cracked and split at six years, I ruled them out. Jim, I don't know how AH 12 compares to AH 37, but if the aspect ratio is different....that second number of the tire size....your gauges will all read incorrectly.

Last week I had eight new tires put on. Two 315/80 Continentals on the front and six 295/80 Toyos on the rear. Today I was checking the tire pressures and noticed that the two valves for the street side duallys are adjacent rather than directly across from each other. This is my third dually, and the first time I've seen the tire guys not put the valve stems across from each other. I realize there is not much weight involved with two air valves on about 250 pounds of tire, but was curious as to whether this is an acceptable way of installation. Comments appreciated. Thanks.

What unit were you in at Fort Sill.....1/12 Lance?

I don't know what the normal cost is, but we had three windows fixed at an American Coach Rally in May. Rally price was $200 per window...and one died on the way home and they refunded the cost for that one.

Good information, Joe, thanks for posting.

We usually use Pilot/Flying J...yep, it's a bit more, but at least you know the diesel is fresh and don't have to worry about getting boxed in a smaller station. Also, we avoid going in, telling them how much we want, giving them the card, etc. With the Pilot card that comes with Good Sam, we run it at the pump, get how much we want, no limit, then take a picture of the pump showing number, amount purchased, number of gallons, etc....and leave...don't go in for a receipt. It's worked so far. The bill is auto drafted from the checking account.

As long as we are on this subject, has anybody locate an inflation chart for Continentals?

I called Honda's corp and complained and sent them a snail mail letter. The letter included an article from one of the MH magazines stating how we all loved the CRV and (at the time) it was the favorite vehicle used as a toad. They did acknowledge the letter and gave me a number to call. I called the number and the bottom line was that the new transmission increased Honda's over all MPG in their attempt to meet the gubmint's MPG goal.

Since this thread started in 2013, it should be noted that starting with model year 2015, the Honda CRV is not towable four down. Honda put one of the new CVT (or whatever they call it) new transmissions in, which is not towable.

The only time my trans temp started to climb was sitting in traffic in "D." I put it in "N" and it cooled down....this was an Allison 3000.

I have been to Los Mochis several times...in a corporate jet, not a MH. I would be extremely cautious of doing any high dollar business with virtually any company down there. Most of the vehicles down there are old, run down and not worth much. I saw no big time maintenance facility or any kind of business capable of hauling a 40' DP anywhere. Does Good Sam to any business in Mexico?

I'm done with Michelins....by far the most expensive, and the worst performers for me.

Thanks for the information, guys. A couple of MHers have mentioned using beads. I have no experience with them....any opinions good or bad?

I'm getting ready to have all my tires replaced....Continentals using the FMCA tire program....what is the best way to have them balanced? FYI, the OEM Michelins are cracking at six years....always covered when travelling and covered in the garage when at home.

What Herman said. I'm have new tires put on Tuesday at Southern Tire Mart....there's at least one in Houston. They honor the FMCA tire program and are replacing my six year old cracked Michelins with Continentals.

I replaced the OEM 14 CRV battery with a Honda Odyssey battery. Haven't had a run down battery since the change .

Carl....I've been flying helicopters since the 60s, did a lot of hovering....can't say I've ever hoovered.😜

I"ve got four jack pads that have many thousands of miles on a fifth wheel, an AC Allegiance and this Eagle....they've never touched the ground.

When I was shopping for tires, I went to Michelin and Continental dealers. None of the guys at the counters had heard of the FMCA program, and one store manager had not heard of it. However, the bean counters for both stores knew about it and how it works. Michelin, wanted to make it very complicated. Continental quoted me MSRP and FMCA prices and said all I had to do was show them my FMCA card when I came in and had the tires put on and paid for them.

IMHO, there are two serious problems with 5th wheels. One is the lousy Chinese tires the manufactures put on them and the other is the people who pull a 16/18k trailer with a 3/4 ton truck. They have no idea how to compute the tow capacity of their trucks, just read the brochure where it says they can pull xxxx pounds. Then come on the internet and say, "been pulling trailers for years, pulls fine, never had a problem."

Buy at least two of them.🙂

In researching new tires, I was informed by a local national chain that 295/80R22.5s are on the way out and the Michelin dealer told me the same thing, and he has none available now. The options are to use either 315s or 295/75s. Also, to go from 295s to 315s would take new rims, and a question as to whether the 315s on the duallies would have enough clearance between the tires. No problems going from 295/80 to 295/75.