What makes tires blow in this manner?

[Storm]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Roger

I have to emphasize the fact that it was not a single hole but evenly distributed around the entire tire's sidewall.

The belts in the sidewall seperated which caused the failure Skoorb.

OK 🙂 So it was just a manufacturing defect freak occurance sort of thing...I suppose perhaps I should change the front tires, but I had to spend $310 on the two new rear ones yesterday 🙁

How much was labor? The tires cost $250 total?

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Ornery
Not true. Right rear blew out on my '77 Town Car at about 80MPH, and the only reason I knew was because the carcass was flapping against the inner fender well!

Hmm, so presumably it blew the 5 minutes before. Not sure what the second sound was 🙂

It was a maxima to answer the question below.

The tires were $310 with labor included. The tires were about $129 each or something like that. I opted againgst buying a road hazard warranty at $10/tire. Tirerack had them much cheaper, of course, and in the future if I have time or I'm buying an entire set of tires I'll be sure to order them from tirerack instead of paying top dollar at a tire shop.

 

[LAUST]

I think the problem lies in the car that the tires are on 😛


J/K 😉

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: LAUST
I think the problem lies in the car that the tires are on 😛


J/K 😉

Don't retract the comment - I think you're quite right. I have seen that some drag cars actually have additional bolts connecting the tire to the rim so that the torque doesn't spin the wheel independent of the tires. I suspect that I probably need to do this myself.

 

[Nocturnal]

Get some Kumhos or Yokohamas. Kumho for the budget conscience people.

 

[zixxer]

nitto actually makes very decent tires. I have nitto-555's right now, and have used the 450's.. both very good high quality tires.