So there I was cruising down to the marina and then I thought I heard a jet on the runway at LAX as I was going through the tunnel.... but it was my right rear wheel flogging itself ti smithereens.. didnt affect the cars performance much If I was deaf I might've driven a lot further. I took pics of the change out fun during the channge... no biggy... watch those side walls folks mine were pretty bad I admit.
Did that on my truck a couple years ago. First time in my over half a million miles of driving that I ever had a blowout. It started to drone like my Maverick and I didn't even know it was a tire. I finally pulled over and looked around and it had blown out the right rear tire.
A tire blows out with a large BOOM and is instantly flat, no doubt that something is wrong... If it just lost air and started flapping around or tread peeled off, that's not a true blow out... Couple years ago I was at the scrap yard and a F-350 dualey scrubbed a tire on the scales gouging a hole in the sidewall... I was standing maybe 15 ft away... I could feel the pressure from the blow out and my ears rang for the rest of the afternoon from the boom...
Blow outs suck! Had my first blow out at 70 mph with cruise on, on the second day I had my license when I was 16. The truck started vibrating really bad then BANG tire gone. To make matters worse there was no spare, that was the same day I learned my dad is insane. After I got off the interstate he took over and he was driving it like it still had a tire
My last one was like that - an F250 work truck traveling 40 mph just wound up on the rim all of a sudden - found out later that the guy who fixes our tires put 3 plugs together trying to repair a large hole - didn't work
That happened to me on the highway in my maverick too...I was bout to race sn197 mustang then boom goes the back tire....guy got lucky lol
Early on a Sunday morning, two weeks after I bought new 245/60/14s for this Comet (1992), I was the only car going north on a major road here. I heard a "ka-klang" that almost sounded like someone threw something at the car.... except it hit the floor a couple times. At least a mile later, I heard a tire groaning. I was going 50 mph. I let off the gas and the car falls down on a flat right rear tire. This is now a semi-rural road I am on and there are no shoulders to speak of. I get back on the gas a bit, and the car comes right back up to plane, like driving a boat! (That is how nose-heavy these cars are!) I finally get to a parking lot that I can pull into off the road. I get out of the car and there is a slit three inches long in the outside sidewall of the almost-new tire! I guess the front tire hit something metal in the road, bounced it off the underside of the car a couple times, and then it came back out and cut the tire.... never do that again in a 100 years of trying. I changed the tire, bought another new tire from the same dealer a few days later, and proceeded to wear them out with another 50K miles of abuse.
