Low Profile Tire Shears Off Along the Tirewall...???
Visit my brother-in-law down in Florida last week.
So we take his Honda Spyder out for a spin one night, with those kool looking low profile tires.
Cruising along around 75 mph, and we get the thumping noise from the rear, slow down onto the shoulder, and watch as his rear tire passes us rolling down a dark stretch of lonely road.
When we get out to inspect, turns out that the rear passenger tire failed, and sheared right off the rim along the whole circumference of the tirewall. The only piece of tire left on the rim was about an inch or so all along the rim (the tread was what rolled pass us).
I had never seen a tire fail like that, and we were trying to figure out the semantics behind it.
The tire had less than 10k miles on them.
We suspect low tire pressure (the Sypder does not have pressure monitoring), or possibly a defective tire...???
The Spyder does have a donut spare, so we made it back with that.
Thoughts or comments welcomed...
Was also wondering since the XFire has no spare, anyone ever consider a donut spare that would fit in the trunk (and act as a little insurance on a long x-country road trip)...That gizmo in the trunk, or a sealant would be of no help under these circumstances...
Last edited by Kodebuster; Nov 1, 2010 at 11:42 PM.