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[feeutfo]

anyone want to guess the out come?
drivers side rear if it helps.

70 up to 90 then into a long sweeping left usually taken about 60 on average.

[albitz]

Cured your constipation I would imagine.

[Elite Pete]

anyone want to guess the out come?
drivers side rear if it helps.

70 up to 90 then into a long sweeping left usually taken about 60 on average.

An expensive laundry bill

[ians]

anyone want to guess the out come?
drivers side rear if it helps.

70 up to 90 then into a long sweeping left usually taken about 60 on average.

oops - your not having much luck in the tyre dept Chris. that doesn't sound funny.  Trust you are ok .

[tunnie]

720 spin followed by new under underpants?

[PhilRich]

Heartstopping fishtail for 20 seconds, then a safe & controlled stop? That is if you were driving of course (snivel)

[Andy B]

I've had a rear off side tyre blow at speed in the outside lane with virtually no drama, it was on the straight though. the steel belt should keep the general shape of the tyre till you get to the hard shoulder.
It's no fun with the car on a crappy half scissor jack with your back just a few feet from the traffic in the nearside lane while you're changing it.

[SP_3.2]

anyone want to guess the out come?
drivers side rear if it helps.

70 up to 90 then into a long sweeping left usually taken about 60 on average.

Dose not sound good But hope that you are ok Chris

[feeutfo]

ok thats enough i think, dont want to worry people too much, me and car are fine. Just wanted to gauge peoples expectation in this situstion.

Answer is..,absalutely nothing at all, well, compared to what i would expect, most alarming thing was a bit of noise, like driving on a rumble strip, which made me back off the power, i thought it was the dif at first as it seemed to respond to throttle input.

Took the bend, it was raining so about 50,bit of a wobble, "ah, must be a puncture" i thought. Stopped imediately got out to find a totaly flat and very steamy rear tyre. I think it went down prety quick, with, as B says, very little drama.

Been to my tyre man this morning, tyre is destroyed, a good half bucket of rubber bits inside and the side wall is all bumpy and miss shapen. At least its the same tyre that was repaired before Newent. A new hole was found old repair still intact even though its very near the side wall.

Got soaked but only 15 minute delay to my journey and i'm so glad i put the spare back in the boot after the lpg conversion.

There is a bill but only for the tyre, 109 +vat, pants and seat are fine. But they are Baige anyway so no worries there.  

[SP_3.2]

Glad all is ok in the end  ....show how well build they are . In a diffrent car the out come may not have been so good

[Andy B]

...... In a diffrent car the out come may not have been so good

Why?  :-/
It's the steel belt in the tyre that keeps the wheel round-ish 

[feeutfo]

...... In a diffrent car the out come may not have been so good

Why?  :-/
It's the steel belt in the tyre that keeps the wheel round-ish 

i wonder the outcome if front drivers side had gone, baring in mind the left hander sloing to a junction, meaning all the weight would be on that same front right corner...?

does anyone remember that 5th gear simulated blow out in an omega all those years ago? seem to remember thinking they over dramatised it by grabbing a load of lock when the tyre burst..?

[cruisetopoland]

There was a 120mph blow out video on Police Camera Action-think was an Omega estate.

It span out, hit central reservation several times.

See:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naa3qhFUlUE

Scary-like mine in the autobahn in Germany on ice, but mine was 45mph and I got it back.

[Andy B]

...... In a diffrent car the out come may not have been so good

Why?  :-/
It's the steel belt in the tyre that keeps the wheel round-ish 

i wonder the outcome if front drivers side had gone, baring in mind the left hander sloing to a junction, meaning all the weight would be on that same front right corner...?

does anyone remember that 5th gear simulated blow out in an omega all those years ago? seem to remember thinking they over dramatised it by grabbing a load of lock when the tyre burst..?

Fortunately ... touching wood  ..... on the two occasions I've ever had a tyre blow out on me, it's been a rear

[cem_devecioglu]

I hope you are ok

and the miggy..with a small bill..