Hi, Guest
04-03-2008, 03:06 AM
sooooo. i did not take my own advice.. and got really lazy with checking tire pressure.. i used to check all 4 tires once per week but lately i went flat rate stylez and just checked one of em (different one each week!)
it caught up to me yesterday when i decided to take the 'scenic route' home and bomb thru the mountains after work. when i got home (backing into my parking spot) i noticed the steering suddenly feel weird.. i get out to inspect and one of the tires (front passenger) was completely fubared. it looked like the steel in the sidewalls just got shifted around due to massive overheating, causing the tire to loose air
i totally should have realized this, because i felt that tire get greasy much sooner than the front driver, but i did not put two and two together that something was wrong
sooo yea.. check your tire pressure!! especially right before any sort of spirited driving.. i feel very lucky that the failure occurred in my parking lot at 0.5mph instead of in the mountains at 80mph
it caught up to me yesterday when i decided to take the 'scenic route' home and bomb thru the mountains after work. when i got home (backing into my parking spot) i noticed the steering suddenly feel weird.. i get out to inspect and one of the tires (front passenger) was completely fubared. it looked like the steel in the sidewalls just got shifted around due to massive overheating, causing the tire to loose air
i totally should have realized this, because i felt that tire get greasy much sooner than the front driver, but i did not put two and two together that something was wrong
sooo yea.. check your tire pressure!! especially right before any sort of spirited driving.. i feel very lucky that the failure occurred in my parking lot at 0.5mph instead of in the mountains at 80mph