Boosted Falcon

Eventful trip on Saturday morning.

Heading to the snow Saturday morning, all packed, car loaded, with Bomber following.
Jump onto east link for a leasurely cruise upto ringwood.

cruising along at 100km/h and notice a slight vibration, don't think much of it, just figured it would be some driveline vibrations or something because of the load in the car.
kept going.

all of a sudden, vibration gets worse.
i start thinking 'oh crap, wheels coming off'
evasive action and start heading to emergency lane.

Kristy points out the window... where i see my tyre overtaking me.
then merge lanes... avoid a camry and park about 15metres infront of my car in the emergency lane.

Don't know exactly what happened but the side walls are still on the wheels.
Wheel isnt damaged luckily.

I think Unezed has some photos of the tyre/rim
so i'll await for him to post pics.

I've contacted Eastlink to see if i can get video footage of the incident as it was near one of the tolls gantry's.
hopefully i get a call back in the next few days.

down side is the fresh paint on the rear guard is now scratched and marked

Retread/remoulded tyre?

Dansedgli wrote:Retread/remoulded tyre?

Bridgestone TS-1 (or something) - apparently expensive and hard to get in Aus.

maybe ya car is just too low and all the scrubbing is wrecking the tyres???

it was funny seeing the tyre, what was left of it, rolling down the road overtaking us.

Was very amusing watching tyre fly past us. Pretty frustrating though, hope you can get the footage John!

Sounds like the tyre was flat and your rim has sliced the sidewalls casuing the tyre to come apart.
Maybee not a flat, maybee all the weight had the same effect.

Your not having much luck with tyres atm are you.

Pete you fat bugger was on your side of the car too

dunno... i don't care what caused it
i just want the video lol.

Unlucky!...

So the tyre came off the rim but the rim stayed on the car? That is strange.

Pics of rim didnt get any of the tread for some reason lucky we kept it and a couple of randomw pics of Johns car

geez that was a big drop of snow that fell on the tow bar lol

Over weight rating maybe??

At least it letting go didn't send you off the road at 100kph!

i highly doubt it.
have had a fully loaded car before with these wheels.
probably a tyre defect given the history i've had with the 'other' tyres that were on the car.

considering i was going 100km/h when it let go.
the advantages of low profile tyres is that the car is still very controllable

i took mine to the snow last weekend. glad we didnt have to fit chains eh? good fun tho (aside from blowing tires). thank feck your rim is ok!

yeah, that was the condition of taking the EF.
no chains = take EF.
chains = take another car

I assume you went to buller or lake mounitain or Baw Baw, cause Falls and Hotham chains are fitted daily just after the pay stations, cause its that icy.

Word of advise dont ever get caught without chains $500 Fine

where'd you go? we went up to mt baw baw. heaps of snow around, laid a little fresh stuff while we were there too!

not the coldest i've had the car tho. i've had it well into the negatives in the mountains in north NSW/QLD... -5 -6... so cold the heater stopped working!

Went upto lake mountain wasnt that cold up there considering it was the snow.

as Bomber said, Lake Mountain for the day.
plenty of snow there, and it started snowing at about 3:30 in the arvo too.

i dont think the weight had ANYTHING to do with the tyre.
we recently had a car load plus a heavily loaded trailer with no problems at all.

ya may as well get 2 new tyres then you'll have 4 new tyres on the car

I'm with t1MMy - you would have had a flat (hence the slight vibration) and then continuing to drive on the tyre murdered it - if you were driving slower it is possible for the tyre to catch fire, there is that much heat generated.

I had a similar thing happen to me years back when I went on a trip to Cairns - got about 40km out of Brisbane, and the car got this strange vibration - took the next exit and had a look over things, RHR tyre was dead flat, fixed the puncture and refilled it with air and the sidewalls were fuct - egged out all the way around, and I had only driven maybe 3 or 4 hundred metres on it.

The car felt perfectly fine apart from the vibration, even fully loaded. Low profile tyres ftw.