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Hey, just wondering if anyone else has experianced a tire blowing up from just sitting around??

 

This is the tire from my Hardtop 55. It was sitting in the afternoon shade beside the house when all of a sudden it let out a massive explosion. I didn't find it till days later. The tire looked to be in good condition prior to this.

 

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Thats really really odd... thats massive structural failure.... even when we overpressurised a tyre once and it popped in a similar way It wasn't that bad

 

Maybe it hatched and there's a little baby tyre somewhere under the car looking for a feed :D

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I'm happy the tire wasn't on the car. It was from my project car, therefore it was being stored along side of the house.

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had that hapen on an old mustang i was working on in a single car tin garage, stiff drink and a change of shorts, not a problem!

 

they havent made that tyre in YEARS, just old rubber failing, if you had driven on it you would have been hearing a massive thump thump noise as the bubble got bigger with heat

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