Just had a blow out at 80mph on the motorway fuck me did i shit sideways at 80 on a motorway aint good especialy facing the central reservation .Big thanx to projectrs for comin out with a wheel oh and a jack cheers fella.

 

Lucky

I do 1400 miles a week, and this is always on my mind

 

In what? not the cossie?

 

@ 80mph blow out

@ 1400 per week

 

Well, 1400 between monday and friday

Glad ur ok tho m8, could have been a completely different post, or worse still not one at all

 

its not a cozzy mate its a rep but yes and i shat my pants,very nealy flipped thank fook it didnt as ive only just finished buildin it

 

I've had 2 in the last 1 1/2 years. Kind of made me think a little bit about do I really want to be driving a sierra it 160+ at any time ever on the road as you'd be fucked if the same happened!

 

JAP CRAP
Totally agree mate makes me think about changin all my tyres now

 

i had similar happen last year in my Movano works van.

tad under 90mph and the nearside rear wheel shreaded its tread, tyre stayed inflated but the whole outer tread was gone, just a few metal wires sticking out, took the side of the van out at the same time and dragged me accross 2 lanes within seconds.

i seriously shit myself, lucky nothing was immediatly along side me when it happened!


Glad your ok tho mate.

 

Tell you something else too. I watched a program once and they showed a road maintenance truck with a big magnet on the front drive down one lane of a main road and the things it picked up... Its a wonder blow outs dont happen more often really!

 

picky775 that looks like a nice cossie rep m8

 

Lucky man, I had one on the M11 in my sierra a few years ago at about 80mph and it scared the crap out of me

 

indycos
Thanks mate its taken just over 3 years to build but nearly wrecked it last nite i will try and get a pick up later of the wheel and tyre,its litraly in half goin to get a new one today providing the wheel is ok

 

Its great fun aint it, try that shit at about a ton on a RWD same thing happened to me on the way to ford fair a couple of years back. Lucky it was about 8 am on a Sunday and I had all 3 lanes to hold onto the car

 

glad your ok mate but its just all part of learning imo
i was flat out in my old 325i sport on the way to a pf meet one time and had a blow out on the front.was an indicated 140 sumthing on the speedo
luckily only swerved across one lane and just avoided the kerb of the central reservation .
stoped to change tyre and felt fine wasnt till spare was on and started moving again that the shock of would could have happened hit me.think i was a tad lucky my mate followed through i think tho

 

couple of pics if it works
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g.../Blowout-1.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...75/Blowout.jpg
got a new tyre this mornin luckily wheel was ok

 

 

Cheers benni what image code is it you use in photobucket???

 

you were lucky!

 

was lucky i wasnt in the outside lane otherwise it would have been a different story,think it would have been parts for sale so was very lucky mate

 

i had visions of getting head from Julian Clary when I read the title.

unlucky mate, has it wrecked the rim?

 

Ha ha no luckily enough the sidewall of the tyre stayed on the rim so didnt touch the rim

 

fuck mate it could've been nasty
glad there wasnt damage to the car

i had a rear blow out on my work transit at 80
and i shit myself the thing was all over the place

 

I know what u mean stevie i shat myself,kinda had time to brace myself tho as i felt the arse end drop down but before i knew it i was across the lane faceing the barrier goin sideways,probably looked shit funny realy

 

You got away with that one, that sorta thing is always on my mind. how much does a tyre cost on that?

 

he put a pirelli pzero on this, but this will probably make him think a bit more about how important the bits of rubber are on your wheels and we all spend Ł000's on our cars and several of us moan at spending an extra Ł50 on getting top class tyre to run of the mill ones.

 

last year i hired a luton van to help my sister move house, whilst travelling along the M1 at 70mph , one of the rear tyres blew taking the wheel next to it out aswell (twin wheeler thingie), i absoultly shit myself, it jumped sideways and felt like it could roll over at any minute, how i managed to catch it and control it, still amazes me today!

 

Hearing this now will probs make me go out n get decents one when they need changing next, ive got ditchfinders at the moment... a scary thought lol

 

i would as you've probably spent a fair few quid on suspension parts to be let down by dodgy rubber. forgot to mention earlier that the lad who put the new tyre on picky775's car said he should keep them at 40psi so as not to let them get so hot as he says that is what causes this to happen on the bigger tyres the heat build up causes a problem internally and whoosh your all over the road. anyone else been told this?

 

yeh me this mornin lol,he said 40psi and i thought feckin 40psi i only ran it on 36 max.

 

Even me little astra 1.4 auto has GSD3's!!
I always get the best tyre there is, only ever had 1 blowout, on a car anyway, and that was on my metro, but it was a 1.0 HLE!!, colway remoulds
tabetha

 

Lucky one there mate, the tyres look in good condition to. I had a blow out a few years ago having a bit sport in my old Saph with a bike, front drivers side blew a split in the inside about 8 inches long, the noise was mad, the poor lad on the bike who was level with me at the time got a shock to, really loud bang! car never budged much at all, the tyres i used at the time were Avons and i know from getting them fitted before and having a propper nightmare to get them on the rims they were a really hard tyre, so i dont know if that helped but i thought at (them) speeds it would have span and been on its bloody roof. i always kind of think of that now.

 

tyres were mint mate it was the actual inside of the tyre wall had worn away coz it was low on pressure so it was rubbin against itself inside the wheel and heating up but obviously you couldnt see it it will just make me think a bit now when im on the motorway,it will always be in the back of my mind

 

Think that was proably the problem with mine to mate. The wheels i bought were second hand and had been on an ultra low saph, so you dont know what damage had been done before i got them. Thats a lovely looking Escos rep you've got there mate, looks the bizz, the Rondells/Engles look the part, Mark

 

picky775
You've been lucky

Did it happen on the M53? All my cars tend to break on there

 

cheers mate its taken just over 3 years to finish it but thought i was goin to destroy it last nite

 

3 years have paid off bud, nice one, Mark.

 

i had a front blowout @85 on the m1 just over a year ago and threw me infront of a lorry, i was lucky i wernt hit , now whenever i go on a long journey i make sure my tyres are correctly inflated

 

last time i had a blow-out i ended up upside down faceing the wrong way in the fast lane of the m3, watching cars skid to a stop infront of my head.. not good i tell you

 

this is a scary thort ,havent cam across it as yet in all the miles i do ,and fingers crossed i dont