Post 39623 (?) exploding tyres

What ...!!! have you got terrorist tyres ..and why are you still up

WOOOOOF

This is news to me. I'm not saying it didn't happen, just that I've never heard or read about it before.
Closest thing I know is when my Padj air con hose blew after being sat for 3 hours. I was at work and the boss came in and told me that my car had just blown up !
Having a tyre do that would result in the same feeling I guess.
I'm waiting to find out how common it is, and if it can be avoided.

See this happen once or twice and its usually related to heat.

Tyre Pressure is proportional to temp and a cover can often make it worse by allowing extra heat buildup when exposed to sun.

One that really scarred the hell out of me was 4am in the morning at Bordertown
when a tyre on a truck stopped at the service station blew up.

Talking to the driver he said it happens often , in this case its still heat even though it was on a wheel and at 4am.

The heat buildup from driving is keep under control by the moving cold air.

Stop for a fill up and the tyre temp heats up a lot before cooling.

Robin Miller

I don't think there was any mention as to the age of the "exploding tyre", but it had probably been seriously damaged (possibly unknowingly) prior to being relegated to spare status.

When I worked on mine sites we had 2 dump truck tyres blow while the vehicles were on the "ready" line.
Both had been stopped for hours but unknown to anyone the tyres were laminating and while running about the pit this caused heat which eventually built up enough for the tyre to explode.
And did they go BANG, one blew the hydraulic tank and part of the cab right off the truck and the other not quite as bad but both would have been fatal to a mechanic or driver walking round checking the tyres before moving off.
The first to blow even shook the pub about a 2 kay away and sent pit bosses and other staff scurrying around believing a loader had struck some unexploded shot in the bottom of a blast hole.
I was working about 200 metres away and felt it and very glad I wasn't closer but both I and my offsider would have been around 30 minutes later.
Alan H.

absalutly - I had a spare on the back of my camper blow - one day it looked fine the next the sidewall was blown out ad it was destroyed

Jeff,

I responded to an earlier post on this.

I'd expect these spares are damaged in some form or another and over pressurised.

In high heat conditions the bleeding obviouce happens!

Poorly seated plugs will blow, or any tyres with fracture damage.

Its not rocket science.

Regards

Kim