What caused a tire to blow out?

Answer 1

Lots of things can cause a tire blow out

- Underinflated- causes friction which heats up the tire and leads to blowout

- Overinflated- Cause ware on the middle, and eats away until blow out

- puncture- such as Nail, metal, wood, that is large enough to blow the tire. expesialy on the side wall (part not touching the ground).

- Overload- Putting to much weight on a tire, Such as putting Pasanger rated tires on trucks, Pulling a boat over the wight limit of the tire. or loading to much in a truck or trailer. This casues the tire to buldge out and blow out the sidewalls. The tire simply can not take this stress.

- Alignment/balanced- if the balacne or aligmnet is off it could cause friction and uneven ware which could possibly lead to blow out but very rare.

- BAD tire-- Tires that are showing belts (metal threads) are dry roted (crinkly looking), OLD (more than 8yrs), Tires that have more than 50- 80K miles. Tires that have less than 2/32 tread (head of a penny). Are very likely to fail and blow out because the tire can not hold or handle the stress being exerted on them. Tires with uneven ware f(ROM side to side). These tires are past there intended life expectancy and simply need to be replaced.

Keep Tires at propper PSI listed on driver door of most cars and trucks once a week and when your tires are COLD. Cold tires meen not rode on. Also, Keep your vehicle properly alighned and rotate ballanced tires every 10-20K. Check for punctures or nails every other time you get gas. Tires are the only thing keeping your car on the road, so take good care fo them.