Lunchie

Went to Goodwood on Sat (excellent as ever), but on the way home, within a mile of leaving I got a puncture on my front left tyre. The tyres are as above and I've only done 200 miles or so on them.
I was doing a U-turn in a gravelly layby when it happened, so only doing 2-3 mph. Thing is the puncture is a radial split in tyre, going from the tread toward the wheel. Seems an odd one to me. Has anyone ever got a puncture like this? Looked like there were some flints around the layby - surprised if this caused, but they can be v. sharp of course. I'm going to get the tyre sent back to Goodyear - but would they own up if it was a manufacturing fault?

Lunchie

Mungo

There was something on exactly this problem a couple of weeks ago - try doing a search.
IIRC it was on the inside of the tyres. Nasty problem which seems to be recurrent...

JamesS

No, not the same, the splits ran round the circumpherence of the tyre not radially as described above....

Lunchie

That's right - a single radial split. I couldn't find the other thread. I spoke to Goodyear, and the guy kept talking about "runflat" and e-mailed me something - but again, as you would expect, that was concerned with circumferential splits....