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Tires and plugs, and what happened to me

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Well I have or should I say had a Goodyear Viva tire on a rim as a spare for my Mitsubishi pick up. Well I was looking at the truck and noticed something was wrong with the spare. It had blown out sitting in the bed of the truck. Reason I had it for a spare was the plug it had in it. I put the plug in my self and did it the correct way. Any how this tire was blown out bad as in a big blown out area in it. Guess the plug held to well or the fact it has been hot a dry here must have been to much for the tire. Oh and the tire looked almost new as in less then 10,000 miles on it. Oh well guess I need to pull out the spare spare for it LOL
 

I've had a tire blow while sitting in the yard, no plug involved. It was an old car tire on a small trailer.

KEH
 
Had the same thing happen to the spare for my trailer. Blew out right down the middle of the treads. The steel cords looked rusty and I suppose they just gave. Never had the tire on the ground.Probably 15-20 years old. Huh...
 
Had one blow out in trunk of the car. Didnt tear up anything but would have scared c%$p out of if driving down the road.
 
first pull of the season this year one of my new tires i bought last year got a syst on it changed it through it in back of my truck as i had to work the next day figured id drop it off at my dads on way home from work since he has his own garage well sometime through the course of my 12 hour shift at work it blew up cuz i got out there to leave nd tire had a hole in it and was upside down as to the way i left it imagine what the guards though when it blew up or even if a poor coworker was walking by when it let go 165 psi in a tire would have made a big noise lol
 
Likely, the fabric cords or steel wires en that area were rotted/rusted out and simply failed.

That's the reasoning behind the push for enforcing an "expiration date" on tires. And damage that needs patching can expose the innards to the elements and speed up the process.
 
I had a "new" recap blow out in the spare tire rack that had never been on the ground. It was about 3 months old and scared the daylights out of me when it blew(it stood upright behind the cab, on a cab over Mack).
 
You know what they say about gals and tires , They will always end up giving you Trouble ,, I use alootta steel belted radials on my equipment ,, got 3blowoutsa just sitting in the sun ,, and in th sahed also ,, guess i should park the tire on a wood plank.....
 
As kids we always took the old tractor tire inner tubes, patched and duck taped the holes and then blew them up big as houses and took down to the pond or lake. A couple of weeks ago I replaced the inner tube in a trailer tire with a new one, patched the old one, blew it up and tossed it into a small wading pool the dogs love to cool off in. One dog, our lab sees the inner tube, can't figure out what it is, starts barking and ducking and more barking, and then it just blew up from the hot sun. KABOOM and shreaded, sending him running and barking for the hills. I guess they don't make inner tubes like they used to, and that dog won't go near the pool anymore. The golden don't care, but the lab won't go near the pool now.

Mark
 
Talked to a young fellow who workes in a large farm equipment salvage yard, he said it is normal to hear several "BOOM" noises from any part of the lots on a hot day. Given enough time and rot, air pressure always wins ;-)
 
A few years ago my son and I where replacing the tires on the hay wagons. I had gotten a deal on twenty take offs from the city of Dubuque. They where all 16 inch pickup tires. My son way using the tire changer and had just changed one of the tires. He had pumped it up and let it set. He was lifting it off of the tire machine when the side wall blew out. He was not hurt but did test his underware out. LOL. We have used all the other tires and not one has even gone flat. Must have been just one tire that was damaged some how.
 
All the old equipment you claim to fool with and this is the first time you had a tire blow ?
 
Had a 215 85 r16 spare for the isuzu cabover blow, sounded like a rifleshot, at the time, I thought to myself damn, those groundhog hunters are close by today, till I found cords and metal sticking out of the tire! Was at an auction, one time and some far guy sat down on the front tire of a cub lawnmower, little 8" front tire blew out the sidewall, BOOM, then a couple of farting sounds, don't know if it was tire, or bowel sounds!
 
One time a buddy of mine called me and said his car had a vibration. He wanted me to check it out. I went over to his place and we took the car for a drive, and he was right. It did have a vibration.

We were sitting on his front steps 20 feet from the car, having a beer and discussing what the vibration could be when a front tire blew out, just sitting there.

I told him, "Well, there was your vibration".
 
Very few places do a repair to a steel belted radial correctly. The correct way is plug and a patch. The patch is to hold air, the plug is to seal the belts from water. If the plug isn't the right kind - should be a rubber plug with lots of cement - and isn't put in correctly, the belts can rust and the tire can fail...
 

A friend of mine was riding down the highway in a Camaro (years ago) with his buddies...

He said there was a huge explosion and they hit the ground skidding...

Got stopped - got out and looked... One of the rear fenders was peeled back like a bomb had gone off and there was no trace left of a tire around the wheel...

All they could figure was the hired hand at the farmstead of the kid that owned the car had aired the tire up with propane, instead of air and when the belt turned loose, it exploded...


Howard
 
Heard an explosion behind the barn once a while back. A few weeks later I was cutting weeds and noticed the tread on an old car tire on our disc was tore up and it was flat. Figured out what the boom was.

Had another 7.50x16 implement tire blow in my face one time. Didn't get hurt, but my ears sure rang.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I was coming home once and had a thumping start from one of the rear tires. I stopped and found a bump on one. I put the spare on and threw the knobby one in the trunk. About 4 or 5 miles down the road it blew. Startled me and raised a cloud of dust from the rear seat and rear window shelf. Another one blew in the storage shed and moved some other things around. Couldn't figure it out first until I saw the sidewall split out.
 
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