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Never you mind said:
Wife has only been driving for like 6 months and suffered this on the motorway.
Quite impressed she didn't bin it.
Cool story bra and all that.
Nasty - I'll bet that was quite frightening for her when it happened. At least she is OK. It will have been virtually empty of air for a long time for it to fail like this - at least she knows to check her tyres occasionally now.Quite impressed she didn't bin it.
Cool story bra and all that.
the last time my wife wrecked a (two week old ) tyre i asked did she not notice anything different with the car when leaving work. apparently it "felt funny" but she thought it would be ok to drive it to the gym,and then home .fortunately she makes up for the ineptitude with vehicles in many other ways.
As others have alluded to, tyres simply don't fail in this way. The damage shown is caused by driving for a considerable distance with a flat tyre and the rim has eventually cut through the tyre.
It would have been very obvious to any competent driver that this was happening. Likewise anyone that bothered to glance at their tyres every now and then would have spotted it straight away.
Incredibly dangerous driving which could easily have resulted in loss of control and danger to others.
It would have been very obvious to any competent driver that this was happening. Likewise anyone that bothered to glance at their tyres every now and then would have spotted it straight away.
Incredibly dangerous driving which could easily have resulted in loss of control and danger to others.
As the delicate flower with no head for hard stuff like math or driving, who could have easily died a firey death on A52 this afternoon, I call shenanigans on the douchebaggery that suggests I know nowt about tyre pressure. I would notice. One cannot stick to the tail end of an F type the way I did up the A1 without noticing a bit of wobble when things are not quite right. It was out of nowhere. Just gone. Not even a flapping about of bits of tyre as I drove approx 150m to get to a verge safe enough to pull over. I always check visually and pester the car-geek husband to double check....add that to the fact that my Abarth has tyre pressure warning I can only assume it was a freak trye blow-up, à la Hamilton @ Silverstone 2013. I'm just a bit pissy that the money I'm going to have to spend is going to delay my intended June GTR trade in.
Edited by anomie on Tuesday 26th May 23:05
anomie said:
As the delicate flower with no head for hard stuff like math or driving, who could have easily died a firey death on A52 this afternoon, I call shenanigans on the douchebaggery that suggests I know nowt about tyre pressure. I would notice. One cannot stick to the tail end of an F type the way I did up the A1 without noticing a bit of wobble when things are not quite right. It was out of nowhere. Just gone. Not even a flapping about of bits of tyre as I drove approx 150m to get to a verge safe enough to pull over. I always check visually and pester the car-geek husband to double check....add that to the fact that my Abarth has tyre pressure warning I can only assume it was a freak trye blow-up, à la Hamilton @ Silverstone 2013. I'm just a bit pissy that the money I'm going to have to spend is going to delay my intended June GTR trade in.
Hello my little delicate flower. Wouldn't you be better with a nice Suzuki Wagon R rather an GTR? Think about all those dials you'll have to check. Edited by anomie on Tuesday 26th May 23:05
Is much more lady like than this.
anomie said:
As the delicate flower with no head for hard stuff like math or driving, who could have easily died a firey death on A52 this afternoon, I call shenanigans on the douchebaggery that suggests I know nowt about tyre pressure. I would notice. One cannot stick to the tail end of an F type the way I did up the A1 without noticing a bit of wobble when things are not quite right. It was out of nowhere. Just gone. Not even a flapping about of bits of tyre as I drove approx 150m to get to a verge safe enough to pull over. I always check visually and pester the car-geek husband to double check....add that to the fact that my Abarth has tyre pressure warning I can only assume it was a freak trye blow-up, à la Hamilton @ Silverstone 2013. I'm just a bit pissy that the money I'm going to have to spend is going to delay my intended June GTR trade in.
So basically you have been driving 6 months, and were racing/tailgating an F Type on the A1, when your tyre blew out, and now you want a Datsun Edited by anomie on Tuesday 26th May 23:05
Is the GTR ready for you
Edited by Monkeylegend on Wednesday 27th May 08:47
Liquid Tuna said:
Well now hang on a minute. What car is it? I ask as I had a blow out in an Austin Metro some 20 years ago at 70 odd and there was a big bang, followed by lots of spinning, Armco grazing, me s
tting myself etc etc.
Anyway, when I stopped moving and came to a rest against a gantry at the side of the A5, the front wheel looked like the one above, with very little rubber left on the rim. Now I confess the tyre was a very old, possibly Soviet-era remould, but the tyre did look like the one in the OP, and I hadn't traveled all that far after the bang, at least not while the wheel was rotating in the direction intended.
I'm going to guess an Abarth 500 from the style of the wheel...tting myself etc etc. Anyway, when I stopped moving and came to a rest against a gantry at the side of the A5, the front wheel looked like the one above, with very little rubber left on the rim. Now I confess the tyre was a very old, possibly Soviet-era remould, but the tyre did look like the one in the OP, and I hadn't traveled all that far after the bang, at least not while the wheel was rotating in the direction intended.
MrBarry123 said:
I'm going to guess an Abarth 500 from the style of the wheel...
Looks like it based on the picture here: 
Source: http://www.abarthcars.co.uk/Site/uk/Abarth595Compe...
The 'what alloy is it' has been bothering me since the thread was started so thanks for your guess
anomie said:
As the delicate flower with no head for hard stuff like math or driving, who could have easily died a firey death on A52 this afternoon, I call shenanigans on the douchebaggery that suggests I know nowt about tyre pressure. I would notice. One cannot stick to the tail end of an F type the way I did up the A1 without noticing a bit of wobble when things are not quite right. It was out of nowhere. Just gone. Not even a flapping about of bits of tyre as I drove approx 150m to get to a verge safe enough to pull over. I always check visually and pester the car-geek husband to double check....add that to the fact that my Abarth has tyre pressure warning I can only assume it was a freak trye blow-up, à la Hamilton @ Silverstone 2013. I'm just a bit pissy that the money I'm going to have to spend is going to delay my intended June GTR trade in.
I'd have had less trouble if you'd typed "2+2=5"Edited by anomie on Tuesday 26th May 23:05
The state of tyre speaks for itself. Screams it, in fact.
KTF said:
MrBarry123 said:
I'm going to guess an Abarth 500 from the style of the wheel...
Looks like it based on the picture here: Source: http://www.abarthcars.co.uk/Site/uk/Abarth595Compe...
The 'what alloy is it' has been bothering me since the thread was started so thanks for your guess
anomie said:
As the delicate flower with no head for hard stuff like math or driving, who could have easily died a firey death on A52 this afternoon, I call shenanigans on the douchebaggery that suggests I know nowt about tyre pressure. I would notice. One cannot stick to the tail end of an F type the way I did up the A1 without noticing a bit of wobble when things are not quite right. It was out of nowhere. Just gone. Not even a flapping about of bits of tyre as I drove approx 150m to get to a verge safe enough to pull over. I always check visually and pester the car-geek husband to double check....add that to the fact that my Abarth has tyre pressure warning I can only assume it was a freak trye blow-up, à la Hamilton @ Silverstone 2013. I'm just a bit pissy that the money I'm going to have to spend is going to delay my intended June GTR trade in.
I can't see the pic due to work firewall however can tell it is a proper disasterous blow out.
Thoughts regarding a surprise terminal blow out:
1. Is there a chance that at some other time the tyre may have been allowed to sit flat, potentially pre purchase or during a long trip away etc? The folded sidewall for a long period weakens it in my experience.
2. Another thing can be when a tyre has had a flat, had some of that tyre foam in it, then had the foam scooped out and the puncture plugged and the tyre re-inflated, some of the foam remains inbetween the layers of the tyre, and rots the layers or rubber and then makes it prone to terminal disaster.
Presume we may knock both of these suggestions on the head quickly.
Cheers
Steven RW
Thoughts regarding a surprise terminal blow out:
1. Is there a chance that at some other time the tyre may have been allowed to sit flat, potentially pre purchase or during a long trip away etc? The folded sidewall for a long period weakens it in my experience.
2. Another thing can be when a tyre has had a flat, had some of that tyre foam in it, then had the foam scooped out and the puncture plugged and the tyre re-inflated, some of the foam remains inbetween the layers of the tyre, and rots the layers or rubber and then makes it prone to terminal disaster.
Presume we may knock both of these suggestions on the head quickly.
Cheers
Steven RW
Calza said:
anomie said:
One cannot stick to the tail end of an F type the way I did up the A1 without noticing a bit of wobble when things are not quite right.
You must have amazing skills to get a 500 to stick to the tail of an F-Type!
Edited by Never you mind on Wednesday 27th May 15:07
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