Speed and blown tires
Another thought I had while driving home today again from our holiday camping trip up north. I posted about driving to fast and not surprisingly I was told I was going to fast at 68mph even though I ...
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GoPackGo wrote:
This doesn't make sense to me. If a tire starts to leak down, why would it 'blowout' as mine did ? I don't think it would. It would continue to leak air until pressure is equal to the outside, while the tire disintegrates. A blowout will result from some kind of catastrophic failure, not a slow leak.
I watched it happen to a tandem axle enclosed trailer (that looked to be full of bikes or ATVs) on the freeway last year. The guy passed us doing probably 75mph or so, with a visibly low trailer tire. When he got about a half mile ahead of us we saw a big puff of smoke as his tire blew out. As said above, they get hot, and it's all over.
