Driving home last night after finishing work, I ran over a deep ridge in the road (road works - no warning sign that the ridge was there). It caused a sickening, hell of a thud and I remember thinking that it might have caused damage. However no obvious ill-effects on the way to work today. After I got home, I looked at the tyre and noticed that there is a blister forming on the side-wall of the tyre. The damage certainly looks terminal.

All 4 tyres are only about 1 month old so forking out for a new one so soon is infuriating. I've heard that Toyo tyres are covered for this sort of eventuality. I wondered if this also applies to other makes or whether its just tough s**t. The tyre are F1s by the way.

D.

 

A friend of mine had a simular situation where he ran over a deep pothole, caused 2 tyres to instatanly deflate and wrecked two alloys. He ended up sueing the concil through his own insurance who paid for the damage,

 

Pay for the tyre, write to the council and enclose a photocopy of the invoice. They'll forward it on to the contractors doing the roadworks and you should get a payment from them for the tyre.

 

Also take a picture of the pothole that caused the damage too, this will help you cause, enclose copies of the photos keeping the originals....

 

I know how you feel....i've had exactly the same thing happen to me recently,i hit a BIG hole in the road and ended up with a golf ball sized bubble on the sidewall of the tyre (Goodyear F1's 215/40/17) I replaced the tyre and have since replaced TWO others after same thing happened again on different roads over the course of the last month or so,not bubbles this time but actual cuts on the side walls.I was running the correct pressures at the time as well.32psi. Again my tyres were really fresh only a few thousand miles old,which makes it particulary bitter
Are F1's prone to this? have you 40 profile ones as well?

 

Thanks for the suggestions.

I think that I will write to the council.

Farmer Joe

My tyres are standard 50 profile. I don't whether F1's are prone to this. This is the first set that I have had.

D.