tyre let go
 

my tyre decided to let go on the a34 on sunday, this being the main issue -

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...afor/tyre2.jpg

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...afor/tyre1.jpg

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...afor/tyre3.jpg

was lucky it was the inside of the rear tyre, and an empty road, i felt a very minor shaking of the steering wheel, which went away, until 5 minutes later there was a violent shaking of the wheel (all at 70mph) before pulling over to the side of the road:eek:
Good o' Nankangs!

Good old silvia cambre more like :D

Glad you're ok though, could have been nasty.

lol no wonder if it was a nankang hahaha u shud get some good tyres from me hehe wot size are they? my wrk has the cheapest prices in the uk for tyres and wheels

there bald as a coot.

Ive done a few tyres like that on the offside rear a few years ago from being skint and not buying new tyres.

have you ever run that tyre flat?

only time my tyres did that, was on my mk1 and that was on the rears when it had been lowered, i found that even with the camber conversion that it would still feck the side walls up, i found that changing fron 40's to 45's sorted the problem,i think they look better, 40's don't fill the arch enough on 17's. youcan get 225/45/17's on the front ,but i hsd to grind a little window in the spring cup so that it din't rub.

Never happened to me before, but I have had a steel wheel shear off completely, the centre of it is now mounted and is a trophey for my motorclub, the 'Wheel of misfortune' :D