Spare tire explodes.

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3171.bay.webtv.net:

Setting it on *fire*? surely there was another cause?

I *guess* I could see the rim having something to do with it - quartz in the road and steel in the rim. Flint and steel right?

Perhaps someone filled the tire with gas?

Flat repair in a can?! That crap will blow up when breaking the bead off the rim.

Flat repair in a can?! That crap will blow up when breaking the bead off the rim.

Maybe used to be.. Not now. The propellant is not flammable.

I would say it wasn't really a spare tire. Just an IED made to look like a spare tire. Might have been filled with LP or something similar.

My guess is that running into a spare tire on the road could destroy it. Running into a spare tire could also mess up the front end of a car and cause fuel leakage which could start a fire. This could easily be mistaken for an exploding tire if your deductive reasoning is on the sketchy side.

I agree. If you ran into an ordinary spare tire, you didnt get a firey explosion from that tire that caught your car on fire....

I think when the car hit the tire/wheel, it burst and tore up part of the car's fuel system and that caused the car to catch on fire.I am only guessing though. cuhulin