Tyre blow-out

[Chilli]

Not me but the piece of sh!t Tahoe about 200 yards in front of me. The tyre must now be in 100 pieces, but it also took his rear wheel arch off and left the rear bumper attached by a thread.
Reminded me of when I was next to a lorry on the 311 when a tyre came off the rim then overtook the both of us.
I guess the summer tyre shredding season has begun.

[Asterix]

Chilli said:

Not me but the piece of sh!t Tahoe about 200 yards in front of me. The tyre must now be in 100 pieces, but it also took his rear wheel arch off and left the rear bumper attached by a thread.
Reminded me of when I was next to a lorry on the 311 when a tyre came off the rim then overtook the both of us.
I guess the summer tyre shredding season has begun.

It's mad how many tyres let go here - I've just got back from a single AD run and counted 14 punctures. That's probably about normal for the 125km.

[rabailey]

Asterix said:

It's mad how many tyres let go here

High heat and the fact that the HGV's run on dodgy re-treads and are normally severely overloaded.

I once heard it quoted that they expect a tire life in the low hundreds.