10 replies to this topic

[Noah]

1 Tyre suitably destroyed, happened at sub 30mph with no impact on the car at all other than the standard symptoms of a flat.

Luckily I have a spare rear wheel and tire (Pirelli P6000) in the garage pumped up to 30PSI.

Edited by Noah, 10 October 2012 - 08:06 PM.

[Jordie]

probally had cracks in the sidewall or previous damage (driven on semi flat etc)

Good job it was at low speed. Ive had a front tyre blow on my dads truck whilst doing 60mph on motorway, its quite scary as it happens very quickly.

[Noah]

probally had cracks in the sidewall or previous damage (driven on semi flat etc)

Good job it was at low speed. Ive had a front tyre blow on my dads truck whilst doing 60mph on motorway, its quite scary as it happens very quickly.

Yep, It was a was driven on flat. I'm taking it into college tomorrow taking the tyre off to use a demonstration of tyre blow outs so at least some good comes out of it

[charie t]

one of our customers had a blow out. They brought it straight to the garage to be fixed

Trouble is they were 60 miles away

Edited by charie t, 10 October 2012 - 09:30 PM.

[Noah]

Holy ******* bejeebees.

[Cooperman]

I once had a Porsche 911 and a rear tyre blew at about 90 mph at night on the A1. The trouble was it was a brand new Pirelli P7 and had only done 150 miles (ouch!). I think I ran over some debris on the carriageway. It was raining and I had to fit and inflate the 'space-saver spare which was a skinny thing. It was quite 'interesting' to be trying to hurry in the wet with a 235/50 tyre one side and a skinny space-saver the other.

[minisilverbullet]

one of our customers had a blow out. They brought it straight to the garage to be fixed

Trouble is they were 60 miles away

Bloomin heck! Is this a joke?

[Noah]

I once had a Porsche 911 and a rear tyre blew at about 90 mph at night on the A1. The trouble was it was a brand new Pirelli P7 and had only done 150 miles (ouch!). I think I ran over some debris on the carriageway. It was raining and I had to fit and inflate the 'space-saver spare which was a skinny thing. It was quite 'interesting' to be trying to hurry in the wet with a 235/50 tyre one side and a skinny space-saver the other.

I Hate space savers , Luckily the mercedes comes with a full size front tyre as a spare. Fronts: 205/50/16 Back:225/50/16

[86mayfair]

I once had a Porsche 911 and a rear tyre blew at about 90 mph at night on the A1. The trouble was it was a brand new Pirelli P7 and had only done 150 miles (ouch!). I think I ran over some debris on the carriageway. It was raining and I had to fit and inflate the 'space-saver spare which was a skinny thing. It was quite 'interesting' to be trying to hurry in the wet with a 235/50 tyre one side and a skinny space-saver the other.

That's the reason they have a speed limit on them! And also why they are deliberately made so ugly so people don't drive them any further than they really have to

[Cooperman]

I once had a Porsche 911 and a rear tyre blew at about 90 mph at night on the A1. The trouble was it was a brand new Pirelli P7 and had only done 150 miles (ouch!). I think I ran over some debris on the carriageway. It was raining and I had to fit and inflate the 'space-saver spare which was a skinny thing. It was quite 'interesting' to be trying to hurry in the wet with a 235/50 tyre one side and a skinny space-saver the other.

That's the reason they have a speed limit on them! And also why they are deliberately made so ugly so people don't drive them any further than they really have to

It did oversteer quite well! I didn't go over about 80 mph, honestly

[charie t]

one of our customers had a blow out. They brought it straight to the garage to be fixed

Trouble is they were 60 miles away

Bloomin heck! Is this a joke?

No, the bloke has more money than sense. Although driving to that amount of damage, i think i have more money than he has sense