Punctures to write home about
 

Soooooo. I'm driving home down the A38 towards Plymouth. Following my youngest in his Skoda when the backed start to feel a little funny. Next second BANG and the back end feels very funny. Luckily I'm following a Skoda so only 65mph. I get out and it's a nearside rear flat. Bug ger! So off wheel and on spare.
Spot the puncture.......
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Does this help?
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WTF!
JUST had 2 new front tyres fitted after my little bump. :(

Scary as hell. Glad you're okay.

FFS. That's a pretty catastrophic failure... Not seen one like that in a while.

OMG! :eek:
you never do things by halves, do you!!
what the heck was the cause of such a severe failure do you reckon?

Oaft belter! :(

If I had to offer a professional opinion I'd be wondering how old the tyre was and whether it'd been sat under-inflated or potentially driven on under-inflated at any time in its life.

A combination of the 2 is the usual cause of structural failure unless there's an underlying fault in the carcus construction from new

Always scary as rear failures usually result in oversteer unlike fronts which tend to understeer. One of the reasons that perceived wisdom is to have your best tyres on the rear axle

is there any perceived wisdom about narrower or wider tyres being less or more dangerous in the case of a blowout Adrian?

Standards are slipping Mike.... Thought you'd at least clean the inside of the Alloy before you uploaded a photo of it.... ;)

In fact, given your all new access to the inside of the tyre, you could have given that a once over too :p

Depends on the size of the vehicle really - if its a standard size for that vehicle it shouldn't be much different response from 1 to another. Obviously the trend to lower profile tyres over the last 15 years has resulted in far less loss of control accidents as the tyre doesn't move about so much on initial deflation

Going to extremes the stretched look isn't great for tyres as you're putting more stress on the sidewall all the time. Too wide for the wheel and it'll move about like a higher profile tyre (although without the car dropping as much!)

Is this one of the new one's fitted Mike? If so new one foc and that one sent back to supplier.