I'm out in the garage today, a bit over 100 degrees and hear a "boom !", look around a see this tire. Now, I have to ask, why would a near new tire explode in the summers heat since it must gets hotter at high speed.
Don't know why, but that is a pretty common in boneyards here in the south. My buddy with the "crush yard" says it happens so often that he doesn't even flinch anymore. It has happened to me a few times on cars out in my yard over the years. One was a clunker Avanti parked close to the front fence line. When it blew, all the black drivers and loaders in the yard in front of me hit the ground... Studebaker George
I had an almost new tire go BOOM sitting under the carport one night. but I had just came back from a backroads potholed asphalt road, where I hit a pothole pretty good,,,,, then 10 minutes on a 4 lane highway about 65 mph.
then 10 minutes after I get home, boom... hole in the sidewall.. guess I snagged a pothole good with that right front tire.
took it to tire store, dad bought road hazard coverage...... cost me 7 or 8 bucks for a new tire.
told him about it when he got home from out of town that weekend.
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