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Last night, on the way home, we were on the M62 when I detected a smell of burning rubber. I was pretty sure it wasn't our car, and was soon proved right, as I spotted white smoke coming off the right rear tyre of a car a couple of places ahead of us. The tyre appeared to be very very flat, too also as well.
I was able to see him coz the car between us had peeled off onto a slip road, as did we. And as we diverged I could see the smoking car start to slow down - I guess it had just happened. Poor bloke missed the chance to get off on the slip, though, so he'd be stuck with trying to change a wheel on the hard shoulder of a very very very busy motorway. Rather him than me. I once had a tyre blow at about 70 on a motorway on my old Morris Minor, but it wasn't until I started to slow for the end-of-motorway roundabout that I felt the pull to one side - it was the front right. I had to change that on the edge of the roundabout, also a pretty busy place, but at least everybody's going slow there.
Last night, on the way home, we were on the M62 when I detected a smell of burning rubber. I was pretty sure it wasn't our car, and was soon proved right, as I spotted white smoke coming off the right rear tyre of a car a couple of places ahead of us. The tyre appeared to be very very flat, too also as well.
I was able to see him coz the car between us had peeled off onto a slip road, as did we. And as we diverged I could see the smoking car start to slow down - I guess it had just happened. Poor bloke missed the chance to get off on the slip, though, so he'd be stuck with trying to change a wheel on the hard shoulder of a very very very busy motorway. Rather him than me. I once had a tyre blow at about 70 on a motorway on my old Morris Minor, but it wasn't until I started to slow for the end-of-motorway roundabout that I felt the pull to one side - it was the front right. I had to change that on the edge of the roundabout, also a pretty busy place, but at least everybody's going slow there.
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By the time I'd gone from lane 3 over to the hard shoulder, the hard shoulder wasn't there, so I coasted up the sliproad into Knutsford services.
Nice timing.
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I reckon I probably ended up on the traffic reports for that one.
(It was also dark and raining.)
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I've had a rear offside tyre blow on an old 1.8 Marina, rounding a left-hand bend on the A379 on the way to Plymouth, and that fishtailed instantly, wagging all over the place - not fun at all. Thankfully there was a place where we could pull off and change the wheel. The tyre was wrecked.
I've not so far had a tyre go on my Minor 1000; I keep it below about 55 indicated, as it's somewhat unhappy going faster, but from its general handling at speed (better now it's had a new set of rear springs), I'd say a blowout front or rear would certainly concentrate one's mind...