Pop Goes The Tyre

[slothvr4]

Last night we were doing a maccas run and heard just a little pop and then thumping after we went a couple of corners from the house so we pulled over and both of my front tyres had popped lucky enough we were only doing about 30km/h so no damage or anything and we just slowly got it back to the house........PICS

in b4 "cool story bro!"

Edited June 13, 2010 by slothvr4

[Hanaldo]

Too high pressure i take it? Or what was the cause? Wouldn't expect both tyres to pop unless they had both been over-inflated...

Good thing you didn't damage your wheels, 30kms/h certainly isn't slow.

[slothvr4]

tyre pressures are at max 36psi but usually 32... and rather it pop at 30kms instead of 100km/h

Edited June 13, 2010 by slothvr4

[Hanaldo]

tyre pressures are at max 36psi but usually 32... and rather it pop at 30kms instead of 100km/h

Yeh for sure, that's not what i was getting at. I just meant that even at 30kms an hour, you're quite lucky to not have damaged your rims. At 100kms an hour you would be very lucky to not have crashed and totalled the car completely.

Any idea what caused them to pop?

[snozzle]

whats the date on those tyres? was probably a brittle old tyre that decided it had enough lucky you didnt damage anything else though

[slothvr4]

well i got the wheels off now and having a quick look there doesnt look like theres any damage to the brakes or anything

[Royce]

looks like bad chamber wear, ie down to canvas?? or is that just where it split?

[slothvr4]

looks like bad chamber wear, ie down to canvas?? or is that just where it split?

yea think it was just mass camber wear and it gave way

[Royce]

haha yer we check our rears quite often, but dont spin the fronts so kinda forget to check them eh

atleast no major damage, could have ended very differently if this happened at speed!

[JonnoHR31]

looks like severe camber/toe wear.

also 32psi isnt enough in low profile tyres. should be at 36-40psi