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| Karl Jones (Karl05eagle)
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My bus is being stored at my folks place in Ms. They called yesterday to tell me that the drivers side tag tire exploded last night. They said that they checked for foul play (bullets, or stab mark) but found none. The tire blew the entire sidewall and part of the tread out. The bus has been sitting in one spot for six months. At last inspection the tire was visually sound.Has this happened to anyone else ? | ||
| Jack Conrad (Jackconrad)
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Yes, We had the spare tire, mounted on a steel wheel, leaning against a post. We heard a loud Bang! We looked at the tire and found a large split in the sidewall. It was sitting in the sun. Jack | ||
| Mike (Busone)
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Just a guess but maybe when it was filled the weather was cold. They may have slightly overfilled it and now that it is warm out the air expanded and boom. | ||
| R.C. Bishop
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Thank the LORD it happend there.....not on the Highway.....  FWIW RCB '64 Crown Supercoach (HWC) | ||
| Macgyver (91flyer)
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Pictures!! I wanna see! -Mac | ||
| Tom Caffrey (Pvcces)
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Karl, when you said that it blew out the entire sidewall, I thought of a zipper failure. When a tire has been run some distance underinflated, the sidewall cords get more and sharper flexing than they should. If they are made of steel, as many of ours are, they can be weakened to the point that a single cord breaks. This overloads the adjacent cords, and they start to snap, since they were already too weak. To see this failure in action is truly scary, if you are very close. When it happens, it just blows out a good portion of the sidewall, if the tire is anywhere near full pressure. If this happens, I would expect that you would not see the other sidewall open up at all. Take a careful look at the carcass; you should be able to see where the cords break in a line. If you ever discard a tire because you know that it was overloaded or run underinflated, be sure to make the tire unusable, because someone might think it was still OK and try to use it. For what it's worth. Tom Caffrey PD4106-2576 Suncatcher |