Had a blow-out on motorway tonight!!

tyre presssures were not low - i checked em on sunday, around 50 miles ago.

 

good job on keeping the car under control most people whould have lost it

[mental note] never have tyres stretched [mental note/]

 

not good.

i had a pair of those tyres on the front of my old punto and they looked really stretched despite not being (205 on a 7.5J rim).

 

They were hardly what youd call stretched. It wasnt the reason for the failure of the tyre im sure. It would have failed at some stage regardless.

 

Lucky escape

 

I've had similar, slowing down from an indicated 125-130 it all got out of shape at around 50 ish.
My theory was the tyre was loosing pressure (probably a puncture from earlier in the day as I'd driven though a farmyard) Pure guess here but the centrifugal (centripetal?) force could have kept it 'up' but collapsed as I slowed, pulling itself to bits as it went, then all hell broke loose and I spun like a top! Lucky really, not my car.

 

They weren't the right size whether or not they can be stretched.

Imho it's a fashion trend that's an accident waiting to happen and not the sort of thing you need for the sake of appearances. [:^(]

People have posted here before that tyre fitters have refused to stretch tyres and obviously with good reason. Cue everyone saying they do 30K a month on stretched tyres with no problems.

I'll stick with the standard size and consider that acceptable having not had a blow out or puncture in any car i've owned in 16 odd years of driving apart from the time I ran over a housebrick.

 

speed rating on them too?

thats sucks, glad you're ok too!

 

nasty

 

I did the same, but at 30mph. Reckon it was a mix of low pressure, possibly a slow puncture, and bad tracking.

Glad your ok though mate. I've seen a car blow out at 90 and end up on its roof in a hedge. Golfs-bruised, battered, but still keep on going.

 

But they werent lol. If the tyres are rated upto 7.5" wide and they are 15" in diameter, how exactly can they be the wrong size!!

 

Go look at the pictures he posted when he fitted them - they were wrong plain and simple.

No car maker ships cars with tyres like that? Wonder why?

If you are going to mess with anything on a car then feel free but running a wrongly fitted tyre is just stupid.

 

I have had this happen to me on the motorway. All was fine one minute, and then suddenly I was aware of this loud chugging noise. But I felt nothing through the wheel and the car happily carried on straight! For about ten seconds I wondered what the loud helicopter noise was coming from before realising it was coming from my car. This was the front near-side wheel. I pulled over to the hard shoulder and the tyre had gone just like Darryn's: It had lost all air, and the rim had sliced the tyre all the way round, and lots of smoke was coming from it. Why my car didn't try to steer away like Darryn's did I don't know.

My tyre was the proper standard tyre fitted to a standard 14" steelie. It must have just decided to lose pressure while we were on the motorway.

 

All depends on what Falken say - if they don't rate the tyre for rims that wide, then you've no comeback. Worse, if you'd had a mad crash and the insurance were out to inspect it, you wouldn't be covered because your car would be deemed "unroadworthy", which automatically voids your insurance.........

 

OMG

Is that all?!

I'm sure a puncture repair kit could fix that

 

Gaffa tape round the tyre.

 

some of that white wall marker would sort it out!

 

Tyre Weld??? Any more stupid comments?

Really interested in what Falken have to say about this.

 

They'll take one look and run away laughing while shouting incorrectly fitted.

 

IMO Falken arent the tyre of choice anyway.