Foretravel Owners' Forum For owners and Fans of Foretravel Motorcoaches September 07, 2025 ...

I am experiencing some abnormal tire we on my coach's steer tires. These are Goodyear G399a 295/75r22.5 LRH tires and are about 3 years old with 25K-30K miles on them. The wear is in the 2nd rib, not the outside rib, and has a high/low wear pattern with a delta of 2/32" to 3/32".

I am experiencing some abnormal tire we on my coach's steer tires. These are Goodyear G399a 295/75r22.5 LRH tires and are about 3 years old with 25K-30K miles on them. The wear is in the 2nd rib, not the outside rib, and has a high/low wear pattern with a delta of 2/32" to 3/32". The tires were purchased from a NAC tire shop by the PO.
I have been running 115 psi and after checking the tp specs for this tire I see I probably should closer to 118 to 120 psi. Also, I see that Goodyear says this tire should be mounted on 9" rims and not the 8.25" rims the the original 275/80r22.5 tires were mounted on.
I called the tire shop and explained the unusual tire wear and asked if they had seen this before. They said no. I asked if they we comfortable installing tires that were not spec'd for this coach especially considering the rim width discrepancy and the store manager that they do this all the time on Foretravel coaches. He recommended just rotating the tires and maybe having the alignment checked.
Has anyone running 295/75r22.5 tires on their coach experienced any unusual tire wear, especially what I have described above?

Your feedback is appreciated.

8.25" & 9" width rims are both approved for 295/75R22.5 tires in accordance with the Goodyear Engineering Data book

Do a search for "Goodyear rivering".

I had problems such as described with my Goodyears. It turned out to be two different things: the coach had not been weighed, and I was running too much pressure and my front end had never been aligned! Problems zero after that. The Peterbuilt guys, also found a loose wheel bearing, which could have contributed. and been fun down the road! 

There is some discussion on the forum where folks were having issues with front steer tires of certain sizes/brands (particularly that size) rubbing on the air bag plates during turns - you might want to check to see if this could be the situation.

(forum search on      tires air bag plates      for some of the discussion, here's one place to start Tires )

Mike, looks like my next move is to have the alignment checked and have the steers rotated to the drive axle.

Since you have a 42 footer, I would guess you have a tag - why not move them to the tag since they will go as a matched set (and the tag generally carries the least weight)?