so im driving to haleiwa this morning and on the H3 my right rear inner sidewall explodes at about 70 mph i was like WTF was that........ slowed down and pulled over swapped out to my spare little donut tire and go on through my day limping along... everything is fine though cause brad HOOKED IT UP! with a killer deal on some tires a while back which ill be running on my ride tomorrow...... i gotta say though the potenzas i was running are pretty damn good tires!! even through a blowout they had enough rigidity to keep me stable barely even being able to notice i had a flat thank goodness for that!! it was just a little shame driving around back to kailua with my dinky little spare

 

Wow, glad to hear this (for the most part) went without much incident. That could have been bad.

Good time for everyone else to make sure your spare tire is in good working order. I checked my wife's spare tire a few weeks ago & it was running about 12 psi. That wouldn't have been too useful if she ever needed it.

Again, glad to hear you & your ride are OK.

 

glad you are safe!!

a ford work truck had a blow out right next to me... i was driving with my windows, and it scared the hell outta me. all i heared was BOOM !!the worst part was all the debris flying at my car and he was swirving. he was able to pull over to the side safely, scary stuff...

 

Dam, glad to hear your OK bro.....Sucks that it had to happened, but it could have been worce, a blow out at 70 MPH can be deadly. Someone, was watching out for you..

 

Dang man, glad to hear youre safe.

So I'm assuming it happened just because of wear-and-tear to the tire?

 

I had a passengers side rear blow out going around a left curve at about 40 mph, back end threw out and I did some drift action until I brought it back around and eventually pulled over. All I have to say is thank god it wasn't my good rims/tires or I would have destroyed a lot more than some old snow tires =/

 

idk the tires are pretty new 80% tread left but one of the guys at the pit stop said he sees those potenzas come in alot with bubbles in the sidewall as well as the kumhos hmmmmmm?? im just thankful brad hooked me up with those other tires!! oh and that i didnt swerve or slide out and smash my ride!!