Flat tyre, valve gone, stuffed in 400 yards.
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This afternoon one of the valve cores blew out while I was blatting along on an NSL DC.
Heard it go, managed to get to N/S lane and stop within 400 yards, the first safe place.
Tyre looked OK externally but didn't feel right on the wall, and sure enough when we got it off the rim it was stuffed.
So was this unlucky or do flat tyres of the non run flat variety suffer terminal damage at even less distance than that?
First time driven on a space saver, not far and quite slowly, whole thing feels very funny tbh.
This causes me to wonder even more at these people who blat along at 70 for mile after mile on a skinny. Unimpressed.
Heard it go, managed to get to N/S lane and stop within 400 yards, the first safe place.
Tyre looked OK externally but didn't feel right on the wall, and sure enough when we got it off the rim it was stuffed.
So was this unlucky or do flat tyres of the non run flat variety suffer terminal damage at even less distance than that?
First time driven on a space saver, not far and quite slowly, whole thing feels very funny tbh.
This causes me to wonder even more at these people who blat along at 70 for mile after mile on a skinny. Unimpressed.
A tyre can be utterly destroyed in 10 feet if your going fast enough and the pressure drops quick enough. It's called a pneumatic tyre for a reason!
I ran tyre garages for years and this attitude of 'how can it be knackered, the slip road was only 200 yards away from me' made me want to punch people in the face.
Why don't you try getting dragged along the ground for that distance with 1/4 of your cars weight on top of you?
I ran tyre garages for years and this attitude of 'how can it be knackered, the slip road was only 200 yards away from me' made me want to punch people in the face.
Why don't you try getting dragged along the ground for that distance with 1/4 of your cars weight on top of you?
Had a rear tyre go on my van last week, doing somewhere close to the speed limit (honest) first thing I noticed was slight drifting as I changed lanes, it was fairly windy so at first I put it down to a combination of that & the lorry "tram lines". Then when we took the exit it became more apparent that I had a soft tyre. Drove at a slowish speed to get off dual carriageway (by now it is raining severely) as I would rather scrap a wheel & tyre than be a target for an HGV to take out, stopped on garage forecourt to find that thier airline was out of order (thinking that I would be able to inflate it enough to get me home (another couple of miles), tyre was on the rim but still had probably 5-6 psi. Changed wheel with spare to get home. Next morning dragged the "flat tyre out of the van & noticed that the inside wall had delaminated & was falling apart
deveng said:
A tyre can be utterly destroyed in 10 feet if your going fast enough and the pressure drops quick enough.
That's the sort of answer I was expecting, thanks.Also the ancilliary offer of a punch in the face is not relevant, internet warriors, aren't they amusing.
Anyway this leads me to a second question.
It was clear that the tyre would probably have held air, apart from the valve issue obviously.
So what does this make of these manufacturers who don't supply either full size or skinny spare but a pump and some sealant? According the manual attach the sealant to the pump, inflate for x minutes, drive for y distance, recheck pressure, if above value z top up and carry on. Wonders what some people are driving on.
Doesn't seem advisable to me.
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