<VV>Tire "aging" not necessarily Corvair related ....

[Ron]

Truckers should be liable for any damage their tires do and be responsible 
for cleanup but from a practical point of view, there's no safe way for them 
to stop and do that.  I guess you need to find some way to get their license 
number and file a claim against their company.  Certainly it's a form of hit 
and run.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David McMillan" <dmac632000 at yahoo.com>
To: "Virtual Vairs" <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: <VV>Tire "aging" not necessarily Corvair related ....


> ...except for the fact that I luckily WASN'T driving
> my Corvair!
>
> All this talk of good tires gone bad I just have to
> tell this story:
>
> Just two weeks ago I was going home from work in the
> center lane moving along with the traffic on route 95.
> About five car lengths in front of me and in the right
> lane there was an 18 wheeler whose tire just exploded.
> I heard a huge "BANG". Apparently, this did not faze
> the driver as he continued on as though nothing had
> happened. Now mind you, there was a good number of
> cars on the road...rush hour, but everyone is moving
> along at the normal 65-70mph. Cars on either side of
> me, nowhere to lane-shift...see where we're going with
> this?
>
> In front of me a Jeep Cherokee was able to climb over
> the LARGE section of tire that had blown over into the
> center lane (it must have been at least half the
> circumference...but my little F**d Focus just wasn't
> big enough. We plowed right into it (I couldn't go
> right or left or stop in time), it left a nice black
> mark on the front dam and it took out the right front
> fender wheel-well. I think the radiator support bar
> was damaged as well, but luckily, nothing more serious
> than that. I was able to drive again after pulling
> over to check to make sure nothing more was damaged
> and to shake myself off. What an experience!
>
>
>
>
> --- Charles Cromwell <corvairguy2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> I had a perfectly good tire throw a tread at 65 MPH.
>
>
>>
>> --- Bryan Blackwell <bryan at skiblack.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Bill,
>> >
>> > I have read a number of reports of tread
>> separating
>> > on old, but
>> > otherwise apparently good tires.  This always
>> seems
>> > to occur on the
>> > highway, which makes sense given the heat goes up
>> > considerably as speed
>> > increases.
>
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