New tyres split open?

[skahigh]

A mate of mine was stuck on the side of the m4 for a few hours last night when he suffered a double puncture.

This morning he's got a good look at them and they have split wide open down the side wall, seemingly a complete catastrophic failure of the tyres.

He tells me the tyre pressure system didn't alert him anything was wrong until the failure.

Both tyres were brand new Yokohamas and only fitted on 28th December.

Anyone heard of this happening before? Any idea what could cause it? Or is it just a manufacturing fault?

My best guess would be the garage massively over-inflated them and then reset the monitoring system.

[skahigh]

Saleen836 said:

Nickyboy said:

Surely that'll be from the deflation and driving at speed on a flat?

I would go with that also

Yes that's certainly possible but, would tend to suggest a sudden loss of all pressure.

[skahigh]

Alucidnation said:

Where did get the tyres?

Surely he should be going back to the supplier?

He will be, it only happened last night.

I was interested to see if others had seen anything like this, I've not.