Check your tires

[Hayata]

Holy cow!

Folks, check your tires!

 

[renagadeinjun]

Hmm; Metzeler's had a bad run years ago, after getting home after a day long hard ride on the scooter I backed the Iron horse in garage. walk over sat on futon behind it Looked at rear tire seen a bubble as big as yours.............I did Thank the man upstairs for binging is home safe.

 

[Kimchi]

I road to Fla on these at 85+ MPH and had no idea. All 4 tires are separating inside the side walls. Cooper has recalled a bunch of these. I got new tires today and am awaiting a refund. Cooper is making it right but figured I’d put it out there.

https://www.consumerreports.org/car...lls-tires-due-to-risk-of-sidewall-separation/

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Wow that’s dangerous

 

[Triptones]

85 with that you are very lucky. Glad you had no issues. I check the air in my tires a s then do a complete inspection especially my Harley. Don’t need that **** when I have the misses on the back!

 

[Gaffer1968]

I road to Fla on these at 85+ MPH and had no idea. All 4 tires are separating inside the side walls. Cooper has recalled a bunch of these. I got new tires today and am awaiting a refund. Cooper is making it right but figured I’d put it out there.

https://www.consumerreports.org/car...lls-tires-due-to-risk-of-sidewall-separation/

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I remember driving an AF Chevy Step Van full of electronic equipment coffins stacked to the gills on the Autobahn (equivalent) in Belgium outside of Brussels on the way back to Wiesbaden in the early 70s. I was trying to keep up with this TDY team maniac ahead of me in a 6-pax Dodge who thought he was Mario Andretti..... All of a sudden, the front left wheel started whomping badly and it was all I could do to hold it steady while I let it slow down and pull off (very scary). All the time flashing my lights at that fool ahead....

A one foot by 4" section of the flat tread had just flown off and was gone....just the air inside the tire and a thin layer of something that used to be another tread (the damned thing was a retread - THEY (AF) put damned retreads on my 1 ton Step Van - on the FRONT!). That fool in front of me was doing at least 80 and expected me to keep up with him....

 

[Gimmebackmybullets]

You would think you could have felt the inbalance in the ride with knots that big in the tires

 

[furious]

Everyone, read the codes on your tires. Find out what year they were made and Where they were made.





This is the only website I found with a list of all the tire plants.

Complete List of Tire DOT Plant Codes - With All Old and New Plant Codes - Wetherington Law Firm - Top Personal Injury Law Firm in Georgia

 

[greg vess]

Preventative maintenance is key to destruction avoidance.

 

[fastfish66]

I road to Fla on these at 85+ MPH and had no idea. All 4 tires are separating inside the side walls. Cooper has recalled a bunch of these. I got new tires today and am awaiting a refund. Cooper is making it right but figured I’d put it out there.

https://www.consumerreports.org/car...lls-tires-due-to-risk-of-sidewall-separation/

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Glad you made it ok.

 

[crippen]

You would think you could have felt the inbalance in the ride with knots that big in the tires

Especially at high speed but I didn’t feel a thing.