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Old 8th October 2012, 09:21 PM
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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
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