Tyre question?

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Defcon5

6,160 posts

190 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Has she got some really fat friends?

Bill

52,476 posts

254 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Have you asked her how much she had to turn the stereo up?

neilbauer

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2,467 posts

182 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Moderator please delete this thread and then shoot me in the head!

aka_kerrly

12,416 posts

209 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Look familiar?



Plenty more pictures on Google.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=running+a+flat+t...


As others have said that is damage caused by under inflation.

I bet once the tyre has been removed the inside will look like this:


Fragments of rubber everywhere.

aazer89

542 posts

143 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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No that doesnt look familiar. As stated previously this is two tyres together. If ot was underinflated (as shown in the link you have polrovided) the edges would be all rough and crooked. This is a perfectly straight line on both sides of the entire wheel and in one place it has come apart.
I am a passenger in the car every morning and would have heard the noise of a flat/underinflated tyre.

littleredrooster

5,523 posts

195 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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That's exactly what a tyre looks like when it's been run almost flat for a distance. Seen it many times. Next phase is where the outer ring detaches altogether leaving random bits of rubber stuck to the bead.

MG CHRIS

9,077 posts

166 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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neilbauer said:
Moderator please delete this thread and then shoot me in the head!
What because it hasn't gone the way you hoped or that you might be a nutter.

Its been driven flat no iffs ands or buts.

MG CHRIS

9,077 posts

166 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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aazer89 said:
No that doesnt look familiar. As stated previously this is two tyres together. If ot was underinflated (as shown in the link you have polrovided) the edges would be all rough and crooked. This is a perfectly straight line on both sides of the entire wheel and in one place it has come apart.
I am a passenger in the car every morning and would have heard the noise of a flat/underinflated tyre.
This justs gets better.

poing

8,743 posts

199 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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aazer89 said:
No that doesnt look familiar. As stated previously this is two tyres together. If ot was underinflated (as shown in the link you have polrovided) the edges would be all rough and crooked. This is a perfectly straight line on both sides of the entire wheel and in one place it has come apart.
I am a passenger in the car every morning and would have heard the noise of a flat/underinflated tyre.
Can't decide if you are being funny or stupid.

neilbauer

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2,467 posts

182 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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I can see what you are all saying now but have never seen this before. I found it incomprehensible that someone would stick rubber to the edge of a tyre and for what gain! But that is what it looks like to a tyre novice which I clearly am. I guess I find it hardest to accept that my step daughter has driven on that tyre so under inflated that it would do that sort of damage! I am not normally this slow on the uptake but at least I have amused you all tonight with my ignorance frown

Edited by neilbauer on Tuesday 7th July 22:53

aka_kerrly

12,416 posts

209 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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neilbauer said:
I am not normally this slow on the uptake but at least I have amused you all tonight with ignorance frown
Don't worry, it could have gone considerably worse, check the "ambiwlans" thread!!!

I'd check the other tyres on your step daughters car with a pressure gauge and check the owners handbook to see what the correct pressure should be.