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Man this topic is about as common as why won't my car hook up. I got up this morning and went to unload the car and one trailer tire is about flat. I get unloaded and pull the tire off. Check it and there is a little hole with nothing in it so I plug it up. Looking at the tire it just looked beat up so I decide I'll just get a new one. I go to put the spare tire on and the friggin spare has a big knot on it and the belts are busted. It's been inside the trailer for a couple years and was a good used tire when I mounted it. I call my buddy at the tire store and tell him to get me 2 new tires. They'll be here tomorrow so I go to put a jack stand under the trailer and I'm looking at some funny rusty marks by the axel mount. Get to looking and the welds on the torsion axel mounting plate are cracked. So now I have to pull all the wheels and check all these axel mount welds. If they fail the axel would be floating on one side unsecured the the frame. So my point in this is check your axel mount plates anytime you are working on tires and check your tires often including the spare. RM