Blow out in the Range Rover

[richardthestag]

Motorway speed on m25 this afternoon and without warning BANG!!!! and i mean like gunshot loud bang

 

Got the car slowed and onto the hard shoulder without too much drama, though trousers do need a bit of a clean as they are pretty smelly.

 

N/S/R tyre flat but intact.

 

Got it all home and inpected the 5 year old AVON Ranger tyre for damage and could see nowt, other than obvious effect of running flat at high speed. No sign of damage to tread nor wall. flipped it over and noticed that the beaded edge had disintegrated. You can see where it failed by the dark mark near my thumb.

 

The tyres have 50k on them, tons of tread and no other sign of crazing or damage. Seems like it just let go

 

There is another one of these buggers on the car so that'll be going tomorrow,

 

 

[Morgan84]

A lucky escape

[RedSparrow]

(expected thread about dogging with TV's Phil Mitchell)

 

 

 

 

Glad you are ok , could have been nasty.

[eddyramrod]

^WHS. I can imagine how exciting* that was.

[ashmicro]

These moments are "interesting". Good to hear you are OK.

[ayd]

glad you are safe.

 

Have had the pleasure of a blow out at speed on the M6 in a Fiat Bravo (don't laugh it was the Wife's)

 

It was an experience for sure....

[richardthestag]

Cheers chaps.

 

this is the third blowout I have experienced

 

The first two we're both in p6 rovers and I was passenger, the first was the worst, proper tank slapper in outside lane of m4.

 

odd all three were n/s/r

 

Tyre shopping tomorrow, don't want to go through that again any time soon

[richardthestag]

(expected thread about dogging with TV's Phil Mitchell)

 

 

 

 

Glad you are ok , could have been nasty.

Cheers, some reason I have gill tayleford in/on my head now

 

 

See what I did there

[Volksy]

From when I was a Recovery bod, NSR tyre fails were the most common. I put it down to kerbs. Everyone slowly climbs the kerb with the front NS wheel, then forgets that the rear has to climb the same kerb, and just lets that one bounce up.

[dollywobbler]

From when I was a Recovery bod, NSR tyre fails were the most common. I put it down to kerbs. Everyone slowly climbs the kerb with the front NS wheel, then forgets that the rear has to climb the same kerb, and just lets that one bounce up.

 

I suspect it might also be because that tyre is checked less often for 'looking like it needs air.' Driver's side probably gets more frequent checking!

 

Only blow out I've had at speed was in the 2CV. While towing a caravan. Aged tyre - blew the sidewall apart. The only way I could tell is that it made a slight humming noise.

[richardthestag]

Tyre centre who sold me the avons 5 years ago had never seen anything like it! Offered to send it back for analysis but would only sell me identical avons, nah fanks

 

2nd tyre centre also never seen anything like it but also pointed out that they wouldn't trust avons much further than they could chuck them. They found that someone had been at the inside of the rim with a grinder or something -not me

 

The rim was also cracked none the wiser except that the other Avon on my car was showing wear signs in the same area. Gone in the bin!

 

2 new michelins cost more than my 1st and 2nd cars combined.

 

Happy days eh

[richardthestag]

Tayne what was the story? Studs broke or loose nuts

[richardthestag]

bloody hell.

 

Funny thing is the same thing happened to me 3years ago. Odd knocking sound on left turn felt through the steering wheel. Thought it was cv joint so dumped car in drive and used trusty family Picasso. When I got round to looking at it 3 nuts holding wheel on and only one of those had more than a turn of thread on it.

 

Funnier still n/s/f just like yours. Spooky things are afoot at autoshite

 

I also check wheel nuts and tyre pressures on an cdo basis, that is like OCD but with the letters alphabetically arranged

[254575]

lost a driver side front wheel on a MK2 mondeo going round a roundabout.

 

it had been in a bodyshop for work the previous week, so i can only assume the nuts were not tight enough/too tight, there was a bang as i was going round the roundabout, and the act of straightening up the wheel must have finished it up.

 

managed to limp into a bus stop. with the disc cutting a nice groove in the road, this all happened outside of a pub on a beautiful sunny day, i could hear the cheers as i scraped to a halt

 

this was in sipson village. within 10 minutes a bus driver had got the arse with me being in his bus stop.

the police showed up after about half an hour to as someone had reported a dumped car (bloody curtain twitchers), and to top it all off, the recovery bloke charged me £70 to use a 'skate'