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Fla02LS

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I was driving on the highway over the weekend and started hearing and feeling a big vibration. Sounded like the rear door wasnt closed all the way and was shaking. Pulled over just in case and had my wife stick her head out the window to check out the r/r tire to make sure it wasnt going flat, it wasnt so i continued on my way. I get home and run my hand around the tire and what do I find......a completely shredded tire. I cant beleive it didnt blow up while doing 65 mph. Someone's looking after me.


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I think you should go buy a lottery ticket. You're one lucky bastard that didn't explode while on the freeway.
 
Where the red arrow is pointing was a separation or something that ran about 1/3 the way around the tire. You can see how it's indented, it had bits of wire sticking thru the rubber. Bad stuff.

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The tires were: Bridgestone Potenza RE960 AS Pole Position. At $179 each, not exactly cheap tires. They were installed 09/07, so about 14 months and 30k miles on them, but the tire that went bad had alot of tread left, ended up with a $120 credit due to the remaining tread.

I guess there's two ways to look at it:
1) Tires of that quality shouldnt just fall apart like mine did
2) Being a high quality tire probably kept it from blowing up on the highway and putting me in a ditch.

Either way, its back in the driveway with two new rear tires for a total of $245. All is good.
 
That is strange. The inside tread looks like that tire was seriously under inflated. But the rest of the tread looks fine. You better go buy that lotto ticket. :p
 
97stscaddy said:
That is strange. The inside tread looks like that tire was seriously under inflated. But the rest of the tread looks fine. You better go buy that lotto ticket. :p
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The crazy thing is that inside part is only like that in one section, so its not like the alignment was off or it was rubbing against something. The other 90% of the tire was perfectly fine, no uneven wear or anything. I have always taken care of the tires as far as rotation, air pressure, alignment, etc. Most likely was some defect in the tire.

BTW....I dont believe in the Lotto, Lotto's for suckers. I'm still breathing so thats enough of a win for me.
 
I must say that does resemble damage resulting from being in continuous contact with something, fenderwell, broken spring, etc
 
Wow, at first I thought bad toe but with the crap floating around about shelf life...... makes one wonder huh?
 
I think revolutionary concepts is right. I think it was rubbing against something for sometime and whatever was protruding eventually caught a good chunk and tore it right out.
 
A lot of the guys on the GTO forums have that problem. They define it as strut rub I think.
 
Of the two remaining tires from the original purchase the dates are: WK 39, '06 & WK 37, '06. I had them installed almost exactly one year from manufacture....WK 37, '07. Is that old or what? The two new ones have a date of mid '07 manufacture.

One important thing that i have stated which kinda eliminates any rubbing is that ridge on the inner sidewall DID NOT go completely around the tire. It only extended about 6 in. from where the tread dissapeared. I would assume if it was rubbing or catching on something that area would be around the entire tire. It looked as though the reinforcement or whatever gave out in that particular area, where the tread was a rip in the sidewall which i could peel back the sidewall rubber. The whole thing is kinda strange, again i chalk it up to a defect that eventually gave way after 30k miles. I just had them rotated about two months prior to this happening and they were fine.
 
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