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[Debs.]

.....today: arrived at my sister`s house to hear a hissing sound, quite loud.....`checked under the bonnet as I thought it might have been a recurrence of the coolant leak I recently had.
No sign under the bonnet but the hiss continued, and got louder as I checked the off-side engine area, and then VERY loud as I bent down near the tyre.
Off with the wheel to find a 5 inch circumferential split in the inner edge of the tyre at the tread-sidewall corner.
Had just done 45 miles on the motorway at 70 mph speeds and had checked the tyre pressures before departing......I bought a lottery ticket; as clearly, it`s my lucky day.

I had (recently) noticed a new vibration upon braking; when passing through 30-25 mph...I imagined a balance weight had come adrift, but with the spare fitted on the way home, there was no such vibration....note to self: "listen to the car, check the inner surfaces of tyres and don`t ignore new symptoms"

[sexydaz]

wot lottery numbers did yer choose....hang on while i get a pen and paper

lucky girl could have been nasty

[Dishevelled Den]

Shocking to say the least D, glad there was no dramatic event - you're quite right of course, the ability to listen and make sense of what you hear, is a blessing

[Mr Skrunts]

Bugga, glad nothing happended whislt you were on the move.     I think that is also a message to the rest of us regards checking all the tyre and not just the pressures and tread depth. 

P.s. can you PM me your lottery numbers please.   

[Vamps]

That was lucky Deb's, well spotted.......

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I'm glad you're fine Debs......that's the important thing.....

[Entwood]

Nice one girl    Glad it worked out the right way ... could have been nasty.

[rob in gib]

Debs so glad you are ok

let this be a lesson to all to check our tyres properly at least every two weeks including inner edges and pressures

on another note might be worth getting the suspension/steering checked as that tyre has worn badly on that inner edge HTH

[jereboam]

Nasty!  I had something similar a few years back - stopped to recycle some bottles, headed off again to the main road (the A55 - you'll know that one) and got the impression something was wrong.  Unfortunately, I just reached the end of the slip road before it became clear where the problem was - the steering.

It wasn't until I found a safe place to stop that I found the chunk of unrecycled bottle in the nearside front tyre.  It b*ggered up the steering geometry horribly and Volvo never managed to get it sorted out - cost a lot of money, that did.  And just thinking about the 3 miles I had to drive on a dual carriageway with erratic steering gives me the willies even today.

[STMO999]

That is so scary Debs. I don't think any of us would have picked that one up. Glad you're ok sweetheart.

[Del Boy]

Glad you're ok Debs 

[Amigo]

A stitch in time....... 8-)

[Bent valve]

Is that a directional tyre?

[tunnie]

Lucky there Debs, if you win the lotto, don't forget OOF 

[Kevin Wood]

Looks like it might be time to get the camber set too.

Kevin