Not tyres again

Submitted: Thursday, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:07
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Hi,

Had a delightful weekend watching my mates drive there 4x4s around whilst I sat and watched. The reason was I had destroyed two Goodyear Wrangler AT tyres within half an hour on a bush track. Lucky I have a camper with a spare the same as the Nissan.

The reason for the post is the nature of the failures. Both tyres have approximately 30% tread left. The first failure was due to the dust cover on the front suspension ( above the shock absorber mount) coming off. The cover put a significant 2" tare in the tyre. The tare was along the centre grove of the rear tyre nice an neat.

The second puncture was also in the centre grove of the front tyre and was probably caused by Stone's. I say stones as there were actually two punctures in the tyre about 30 degrees apart but in the same central grove. See link for picture of tyre and reason for the grove. www.goodyear.com.au/4wd-tyres.htm

My question is not the fact I had two dead tyres but the nature of the holes appearing in the central grove in every case. Has anybody else experiences this nasty problem.

Thanks in advance

Redeye
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