[Bulti]

Or at least that's what I think that has ruined my evening. At least the red emergency wheel got me home...


   


   

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[MLB]

Whoa! What happened? Is that a spike in the tire?

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[Bulti]

No idea what happened. Just cruisin' on the highway and suddenly I heard a slight 'tump'. Next thing I heard was the flat tire doing 'flop-flop-flop'. Funny thing is, when changing the tire, I only noticed the hole in the front. It was already dark outside. Because the rim is damaged I'm changing to winter wheels. That's when I discovered that the Germans must have mistaken me for a Sherman, lol.


Freshly painted rim's got buggered, that's the not so cool part.

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[ds968]

Holy crap, I've never seen anything like that ! Glad you were able to bring the car to a stop without any loss of control , but again..holy crap ! The tears pattern on the inside wall is bizarre ; had it been on the outside of the tire I might have said you probably drove too close to a Roman chariot with blades and spikes in tne center of their wheel, but what in the world could have caused that massive rip & tear ? Your theory may be correct after all, the outside wall has just the entry wound, and then the hollow point bullet ( or Panzer projectile ) exit wound is where the big damage occurs.

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[MLB]

The tear has to be from the rim running on the flat sidewall. Any other damage to the car?

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[ds968]

What brand tires are those ? Made in Germany , eh ? MLB, that makes perfect sense considering the interior wall is typically of much weaker costruction than the outer wall.

Incidentally, of all tire manufacturers only Michelin has a ( patented - just not sure when that patent expires..) significantly reinforced interior tire wall construction . Among any other compelling factors, this is one of the key reasons I buy only Michelins.

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[Bulti]

Luckily, no. I've had a flat in the past before, but no damage like this. Maybe the tear indeed came from driving with the tire being completely flat. The deflation was in any case very suddenly.


The tires are Goodyears. I think any tire would have thrown in the towel in this case.

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[az968]

Shouldn't be driving over the road spikes the police throw down.  The speeding ticket would have cost you less than the tire

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[lbpesq]

I swear I wasn't anywhere near Belgium yesterday!


Bill Panzer

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[Bulti]

Too bad I don't live in the States. So I could sue the crap out of the Germans, the cops AND Goodyear ;-)

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[MLB]

That's not funny...

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[Bulti]

In good fun...

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[MLB]

;0)

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[Tom030]

[quote name="Bulti" post="170309" timestamp="1445528probablyily, no. I've had a flat in the past before, but no damage like this. Maybe the tear indeed came from driving with the tire being completely flat. The deflation was in any case very suddenly.

The tires are Goodyears. I think any tire would have thrown in the towel in this case.[/quote]


The damaged tire is known within the industry as a "run flat". The majority of the damage to the sidewall happened after the penetration during rollout. If you were traveling at 60 mph you probably went 200 to 250 feet before you came to a complete stop. In that distance the tire rotated 30 to 40 times totally without air pressure and around 25% of the weight of the vehicle on it. Thus the sidewall damage. You can find examples of this kind of damage in most tire dealers scrap pile including Michelin. Not that uncommon.

~tom

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[wildcat]

Looks like a projectile of some sort went through the tire and tumbled around (very fast as its only in one portion of the tire) before going out the side. I don't think I'd blame the tire, you didn't lose control.

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[Rap]

What type of projectile?

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[vliegwielolaf1234]

A panzerfaust i guess

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[wildcat]

Reminds me of a story of a formula 1 driver that hit a wall, was air born, came down and the car went to pieces. He walked away from it. The announcer said "that was quite a crash you had", and the driver replied, " yeah, but look at that car, it just fell apart." 

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