Aswall
Active Member
On my way back up the M1 this morn, in the outside lane at about 90 (km/h obviously) and the car started wobbling. In the time it took for my daughter to say "what's that wobbling" the nearside rear tyre shredded itself and the view behind disappeared in black smoke. Managed to get across to the hard shoulder quickly and easily, thankfully traffic was light with it being Sunday morn, but it was an unpleasant experience. The tyre had completely ripped in two along the sidewall but thankfully the wheel was undamaged and thanks to the excellent toolkit (which even included a pair of gloves so I didn't get my delicate little hands dirty) swapping the wheel with the spacesaver took 5 minutes. Handling is certainly interesting with the spacesaver on and it was a slow plod back home at 50mph but thankfully my local tyre place had one in stock and had me back on the road again in 15mins (except I can't work out how the jack fits back in without making the boot floor stick up). The tyre (and the car) had only done 3000 miles but it's the luck of the draw whether something happens to a tyre I suppose.
All in all it was quite an experience, my first blowout in 18 yrs of driving but someone was smiling on me and let my daughter and I walk away from it and even left the car undamaged (though that is pretty unimportant in comparison).
Cheers
Andy
All in all it was quite an experience, my first blowout in 18 yrs of driving but someone was smiling on me and let my daughter and I walk away from it and even left the car undamaged (though that is pretty unimportant in comparison).
Cheers
Andy