How far is it safe to drive on a blown tire?
Here is the scenario. Traveling on a busy interstate. We hear the trailer tire pop an the curb side. We pull to the shoulder and get out and inspect the tire. It is definitely unreapairable. There doe...
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K Charles wrote:
When one tire is flat it still has all the weight on it that it had when good. At 5 MPH it won't hurt the other tire. Drive it to a safe spot. It doesn't have to be the next exit, only the next safe place to get off the road. When it says emergency stopping only, a flat tire is not an emergency in my book.
Sorry to disagree but your book is missing a couple chapters!!!!!!
a blown out tire on a vehicle on a busy highway---- is an emergency-- because if you continue -- That tire it could flip off and break and fly into someone else or get thrown by another vehicle into another car ---and cause an accident !!!!
so a flat tire is an "emergency stopping "
Almost 30 years on the fire department-- so if you want to squabble and quarrel with that --that's fine--- that is what any EMERGENCY turn off area is for .
