Tire BLOWOUT... At 85mph.....
01-03-2004, 05:34 PM
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Tire BLOWOUT... At 85mph.....
Ok so here is how the story started. I went to the car wash (I know its bad, but its cold, and I am sick, so i thought once wouldn't hurt) and guess what, they curbed my wheel on the machine that pulls the car through. I didn't notice till I got home though, so I planned to go back later that day.
So after a couple of appoiaments I was back on the road again, going to the car wash to get them to cover the costs of repairing/replacing the wheel.
I was going about 80-85 on the freeway, when my right frount tire blows out. Now the car is steering off and I have to correct and slow down, and some how make it off the freeway. When I look at the tire it is completely seperated off the wheel, but there is no nails or anything that has punctured the rubber.. The thing just seperated.
Now this is not on the same wheel as the marks form the car wash( car wash on drivers side, blow out on passanger) but is there any way that these are related? Besides the Continental's being bad tires, Is there any reason for this to have happened?
My friend who works for audi as a salesman, who also is a big audi buff, looked at it and said that there was nothing that he could think of that could have caused this.
We'll just have to see what service says on Monday.
So after a couple of appoiaments I was back on the road again, going to the car wash to get them to cover the costs of repairing/replacing the wheel.
I was going about 80-85 on the freeway, when my right frount tire blows out. Now the car is steering off and I have to correct and slow down, and some how make it off the freeway. When I look at the tire it is completely seperated off the wheel, but there is no nails or anything that has punctured the rubber.. The thing just seperated.
Now this is not on the same wheel as the marks form the car wash( car wash on drivers side, blow out on passanger) but is there any way that these are related? Besides the Continental's being bad tires, Is there any reason for this to have happened?
My friend who works for audi as a salesman, who also is a big audi buff, looked at it and said that there was nothing that he could think of that could have caused this.
We'll just have to see what service says on Monday.
01-03-2004, 06:41 PM
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Tire blowout is sad but the real tragedy is that you get the S4 machine washed!
I don't know about your specific car wash but I have been told by many never to take the car through the drive-in machine as it will make paint swirls. Hand wash all the way!
01-03-2004, 06:48 PM
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I don't get the "especially size 18" comment.
The sidewall on a low profile tire such as is fitted to 18" wheels should actually be of more rigid construction (although not as compliant and flexible) as a taller profile tire. Maybe it's that people want to look like they're driving around on O-rings but feel like they're riding around on 65-profile tires that's the problem (i.e., the manufacturers are making tire sidewalls too flimsy on some low profile tires in the interest of comfort).
