my tire overtook me this morning

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not me but a guy on the mkiv forums

this must have been scary :shock: :shocked!: :pale:

 

oh my!!!!

[iow_corrado_g60 0]

shit im sure he must of been running fucked tyres before as ive had a blow out at only 50 luckily and it didnt look like that afterwards!

[NickRStorm 0]

That's a classic slow puncture scenario. The tyre walls rub & generate so much heat that they literally burn the walls away. In many ways it's nastier than a blow-out because you wind up on the rims before you know what's happened.

 

I have had 2 of these in 30 years of driving. It's bl**dy scary when it happens! Sounds like this bloke was lucky that he made it to the hard shoulder.

 

Now I always stop & check if I hear or feel anything unusual in the tyre department. Better safe than mangled :!: