Tire blow out

[Drewfus04]

Well... tonight I was driving home from a friend's house and heading to work when suddenly I heard a weird noise coming from the back right side of my X. I began to think it might be something caught in the tire or just stuck somewhere back there. So... I kept driving for about another 20 seconds at around 60mph when it quickly got louder and more vibrasive. As I heard the noise get louder, I knew it was a tire getting ready to break down so I slowed the vehicle down slightly to 50mph and then it started to shread so I began to stop. Not once did I lose control of the vehicle and no, it didn't almost flip (friend asked). I was stopped before the tire had completely shreaded so none of the tire messed up any of the body on my vehicle. It wasn't bad at all; this being my first blown tire in my life, driving or riding.

To all new drivers: It's really not that hard to control a blow out; as I controlled mine on a corner going 50-60mph. Just try and get slowed down before the tire actually explodes like I did. If you hear/feel the tire starting to get ready to blow, start slowing down. It's that simple.

Btw, I ended up being an hour late for work (took an hour to put on a new tire), even though 5 trucks stopped to help and then another pulled up to ask if I was all set. lol. I couldn't believe how many people were pulling over to help. Good thing to, this being my first time, I had no idea where anything was. I got a jack out, but couldn't figure out how to get the spare out from underneath the truck. Good thing one of the people that stopped knew because he blew a tire the night before and knew what he was doing now.

 

[BigBadWimp]

I had something similar happen to me but instead of throngs of people coming to my aid I ahd one guy pull over, walk up to me and ask me for directions! He knew I wasn't going anywhere so he asked me for directions and NEVER MENTIONED MY PREDICAMENT AT ALL! Some people....

 

[Bobby Locs]

Glad to hear you were ok and nothing bad happend... I've had a blow out before too. Do 75-80 on the freeway in a Dodge mini-van, but my tire sreaded (SP) before I knew what happend so it busted up the front fender and driver lights. I also never lost control of the vehicle, You just have to not overreact in that kind of incident...

 

[raginraj]

happened to me about 3 weeks ago. i was on a residential road (on my way to work) and there was no one around to help me. i got the X jacked up, dropped the spare and started to remove the flat when i hit a snag. two of the five lug nuts wouldn't come off no matter how much i torqued them. i ended up having to call AAA and it took the two of us to get those nuts off. i guess that's what happens when you use an air wrench to put the nuts on but don't have one to take them off.

 

[Drewfus04]

Did you air wrench them on? You're only suppose to tighten the nut to a snug fit and then torque them by hand is what I usually do. I guess you could lower the pressure on the air wrench and that would do the same thing.

Most of the time, if you get it done at a body shop, they'll never even bother lowering the pressure and just put em on as fast as they can even if some aren't even on tight while others are tighter than ol' hell.

 

[J. Kennedy]

Thats not really a "blow out" - more of a disintergration.

F*ckstones would blowout, ie explode. One second the tire is on the road, next second the rim is on the road, (if you are lucky).

I had one 10 years ago, drivers front. Blew a hole, literally, thru the drivers fender. If there was no median strip, we would have been killed. there was nothing left but a hoop of rubber & steel. It was a Dunlop. The wife still recounts this as the scariest moment in her life, and she has been thru some ****.