Well I was quite happily driving home on the A1 last night in traffic doing about 70mph when all of a sudden the steering wheel yanks to the left, pulling me towards the car in the lane next to me. Well I $hat myself as you can imagine!! I manage to pull over on the hard shoulder (narrowly avoiding traffic) & discover this had happened to my nearside front tyre:








I feel I was very lucky indeed

MAFFA

 

last time I had a blow out on my scoob I didnt even know it had gone!! it was about 2 miles down the road it was passenger sider rear, the rim was fooked!!

looks like you got off lightly.

 

To be honest if it was a rear I might not have noticed it as much but as it was a front it pulled like a b*stard to the left.

There was still a lot of smoke when I stopped

 

Gutted about the rim

 

so is that a faulty tyre then or did you hit something?

 

IMHO you can't beat Chinese tyres for quality!!!!!!!

 

thats what I was thinking. Get some decent tyres!

 

thats an odd sized tyre? looks like a bit of chafing somwhere

Mart

 

I can remember a scarey moment in your car.... down Albion Way.

Good job the tyre is "reinforced" . Glad you walked away ok mate.

Mark

 

The rest of the tyre is hardly worn, so I would suggest you spend less money adding shiney bits and less time painting things under the bonnet and spend more time and money on some good rubber!
Let that be a lesson to you, you may not be so lucky next time! - Replace the other three when you're at it

 

Try some Nankang Hedge Hunters next time Maffa

 

Right so in your opinion the more money you spend on a tyre actually equates to it being better?

I've run pretty much every tyre under the sun and IMHO these are the best of the lot. I've run SO2's, Eagle F1's, T1-S's and for the combination of tread wear v's wet & dry grip i've not come across better.

However i'm sure you all have your opinion on "which tyre is best" and because i'm not following everyone else like a sheep to the Eagle F1's i'm automatically wrong. Not much point in me saying that I thought they were cr@p then really .

Basically I tried all of the name brands to get a feel for them & then decided to try these because the tread pattern & tread wear combination looked pretty good. I've never looked back and have used the same tyres for probably the last 3yrs at least.

Anyway rant over Yes I probably hit something when my tyre was still cold. Only made it 3 miles or so from the office. Went down very quickly. The tyre has been on there for probably 8-9 months or so without any bother.

MAFFA
p.s Mark thanks for actually showing some concern rather than just commenting on how cr@p you thought my tyres were

 

Chris you git

 

hey mate, were concerned, just trying to advise at the same time. natural reaction ;P

 

Saw a similar thing on TV once....Jeepers Creepers 2 I think it was called.........scary

 

Shoulders of the tyre (on what's left of the good bits) do look very rounded, suggest you stop chucking it through tight bends or round islands and bump up the tyres pressures a bit more. Unless you've been driving round on a under inflated tyre for a few months

Oh, and with tyres, usually more money=better tyres...from a trade price point of view (RRP can be stupid with tyres). Especially with wet weather grip, cheapies are absolute death traps in the wet.

But this failure doesn't look like a quality issue to me, as it looks like wear/pressure/driving style related.

 

And how many of the others have failed like this then ?

 

Who says that this brand has had more failures than any other tyre? It's quite possible that Goodyear/Toyo/Pirelli have more failures than this brand - and maybe not.
It's great when the SN experts come along

FWIW i've had two tyre failures/blowouts in 10 years and they were both Goodyear. I've ran loads of different tyres in my time ranging from the cheapest to the most expensive.

 

Glad to see your ok Maffa
Check this out though!

The LOAD INDEX is a numerical code associated with the maximum load a
tyre can carry at the speed indicated by its Speed Symbol under service
conditions specified by E.T.R.O 1991, passenger car tyres section 13,
reproduced below.

LI kg LI kg LI kg LI kg LI kg LI kg
60 250 71 345 82 475 93 650 104 900 115 1215
61 257 72 355 83 487 94 670 105 925 116 1250
62 265 73 365 84 500 95 390 106 950 117 1285
63 272 74 375 85 515 96 710 107 975 118 1320
64 280 75 387 86 530 97 730 108 1000 119 1360
65 290 76 400 87 545 98 750 109 1030 120 1400
66 300 77 412 88 560 99 775 110 1060 121 1450
67 307 78 425 89 580 100 800 111 1090 122 1500
68 315 79 437 90 600 101 825 112 1120 123 1550
69 325 80 450 91 615 102 850 113 1150 124 1600
70 335 81 462 92 630 103 875 114 1180 125 1650

Legend: LI = Load Index and kg = Load (kg )


Tony

 

84W = 500kg???

That right Tony?

 

Remember you have 4 on your car marc
My Toyo's are 83's

 

Oh yeah lol

 

Yup mark max load at max speed rating is 2000kg

Tony

 

Hi,

Looks nasty, gald your ok!

what brand of tyres are they?