Blowout with Hole in Rim

[norcalboon]

Wife was coming back from soccer tournament Sunday evening with daughter and had a blowout of right rear on freeway going about 60MPH. She said she thinks she hit a pothole. Check out the damage to the rim - no debris rattling inside the tire. Michelin Defender LTX M/S about 2 years since installed and 30K miles - all have about 8/32 tread left, rotated every 10K miles or so, kept at 35-40 PSI. Never seen anything like this.

 

[tuckerrnr1]

I would put money on road debris punctured tire and wheel. Glad your family is safe.

 

[89Suburban]

wow

 

[jeremiahm]

That is crazy. had a similar incident years ago, what ever it was went through the tire and a steel rim. Looked like a .45 exit. It was a country road, walked back up a couple of hundred yards and could not find evidence of what it might have been. Glad everyone is safe.

 

[OBSandaNNBS]

Wife was coming back from soccer tournament Sunday evening with daughter and had a blowout of right rear on freeway going about 60MPH. She said she thinks she hit a pothole. Check out the damage to the rim - no debris rattling inside the tire. Michelin Defender LTX M/S about 2 years since installed and 30K miles - all have about 8/32 tread left, rotated every 10K miles or so, kept at 35-40 PSI. Never seen anything like this.

Holy crap, look at that hole in the rim!! Looks like it got punched out. Maybe a piece of rebar stuck in the pothole?

Glad all are safe.

 

[swathdiver]

Wife was coming back from soccer tournament Sunday evening with daughter and had a blowout of right rear on freeway going about 60MPH. She said she thinks she hit a pothole. Check out the damage to the rim - no debris rattling inside the tire. Michelin Defender LTX M/S about 2 years since installed and 30K miles - all have about 8/32 tread left, rotated every 10K miles or so, kept at 35-40 PSI. Never seen anything like this.

Definitely a road hazard!

With that much wear, replace all of the tires. The AWD system, if you have it, doesn't like the tires being more than 1/8 inch different in height. Sell the old three on Marketplace or the like.

 

[OBSandaNNBS]

Definitely a road hazard!

With that much wear, replace all of the tires. The AWD system, if you have it, doesn't like the tires being more than 1/8 inch different in height. Sell the old three on Marketplace or the like.

Or check marketplace for a matching Defender with 8/32 left!

 

[norcalboon]

Definitely a road hazard!

With that much wear, replace all of the tires. The AWD system, if you have it, doesn't like the tires being more than 1/8 inch different in height. Sell the old three on Marketplace or the like.

Yessir - I went one new tire shaved to 8/32 from Tire Rack and found an A- rim from SoCal - all in about $600 to replace.

 

[swathdiver]

Yessir - I went one new tire shaved to 8/32 from Tire Rack and found an A- rim from SoCal - all in about $600 to replace.

Learned something new today, didn't know you could get a new tire shaved down. Cool.

 

[PG01]

Learned something new today, didn't know you could get a new tire shaved down. Cool.

I guess its cheaper than 4 new ones… but who knew? 1st for me as well

 

[Marky Dissod]

Learned something new today, didn't know you could get a new tire shaved down. Cool.

I guess its cheaper than 4 new ones ... but who knew? 1st for me as well.

Thought that TireRack charged extra to shave tires, as the new tire needs additional labor - shaving.

 

[norcalboon]

Thought that TireRack charged extra to shave tires, as the new tire needs additional labor - shaving.

$25 to shave (probably per tire)

 

[_GMAN_]

That's a big hole in the rim. If yor rim is factory, I can probably source you a new one.

 

[petethepug]

Lucky, we had all our tire shavers and siping equipment yanked in SoCal.

Probably occurred at a seam on a concrete highway exposing the rebar that was used to join a cold seam of concrete from one workday to the next.

Drop the tire off at the CHP station so the highway team can look for the culprit. If it’s a known and already reported incident you can apply to be reimbursed.