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ACinSC 
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Posted: 19 Jun 2023 at 3:48pm |
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Wife and I heard a loud boom yesterday . Today I found the spare in the bed of my old C-10 had blown apart . Pretty sure that's what made the noise . If I'm reading the date code right tire was made 8th week of 2004 . Time for a new tire . Fav son may post pics soon . Thanks !
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Darwin W. Kurtz
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Posted: 19 Jun 2023 at 4:12pm |
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I had a similar incident. I had taken a used tire to the Co-op to mount because I needed to go pickup a sickle mower and knew I needed a better tire......on the way to get the mower well I stopped in town, a guy had a bunch of lawn mowers and stuff out by the street for sale and while I was there it sounded like a gun shot. A lady nest door comes flying out of her house and wonders who got shot. i guess she never called the cops......I figured out what the gunshot was when I got out there to change the tire on the mower and the tire I had mounted had blown out in the back of the pickup!
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ACinSC
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Posted: 19 Jun 2023 at 5:29pm |
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Thanks Darwin. I was wondering if anyone else had seen this.
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 19 Jun 2023 at 6:46pm |
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Has happened here twice. One on a header cart with a 22ft platform on it. Car tires. Other was a super single on the Brent 544. Both were just sitting
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WeisAC2
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Posted: 19 Jun 2023 at 7:05pm |
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DaveKamp
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Posted: 19 Jun 2023 at 11:45pm |
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Yep... they get hot enough internally, the fumes inside actually ignite internally, and expand, causing pressure rise....
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ACinSC
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Posted: 20 Jun 2023 at 6:06am |
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Yeah it was sunny and pretty hot Sunday. Thanks
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 20 Jun 2023 at 7:32pm |
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Changed out the spare on my '89 F250 because some of the tread had fallen off but it still had pressure. Had already replaced the 4 on the ground a couple of years back. Hated to spend the $$ on a new spare but it beats walking home.
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200Tom1
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Posted: 20 Jun 2023 at 7:49pm |
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A customer of my tire shop bought his grandpa's ford car. It was bright red and had never set out in it's life. The spare tire was flat. It had never been on the ground. I sited it up to 42 lbs. The next day about 3:00 pm they heard a loud boom. The spare tire had blown out damaging the trunk hinges. They found hinges at our local salvage lot.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 20 Jun 2023 at 9:16pm |
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i've heard several semi trailer tires blow while they were just sitting...they sound like a connon!
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ACinSC
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Posted: 21 Jun 2023 at 7:06am |
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Yeah, kinda hate to but I'm gonna buy a new tire for the spare. When this tire blew up it was loud. Wife thought it was a car accident. Thanks
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ACinSC
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Posted: 11 Jul 2023 at 10:43am |
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Bought a good used tire today from a family owned local tire shop . Nice people ! Told me the tire I bought came from Germany , as they have a law forbidding tires with 50% wear . 2020 date code . Hope I never need it , but it's in the bed of my old C 10 if I do . Thanks !
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 15 Jul 2023 at 4:41pm |
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most tire shops now has a time limit on tires they will mount , know I wanted the best tire on truck mounted as a spare , told me it was to old to remount on spare rim but demounted it and the old spare - so I just mounted it myself when i got home .
So far so good -
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Ray54
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Posted: 16 Jul 2023 at 5:57pm |
I don't know if I have seen a bias type tire just explode like the steel belted radials do. The first one I had do it was early 90's. A friend was junk collector of anything automotive. Had several acres covered in cars, trucks, and a few tractors. Had new looking tires by the tread ware he mounted for me. Drove the car home and left car sitting a day or 2 and tire had exploded. I have the rear 1/2 of a Ford Currier from 72 some built a flat bed for and dueled the wheels. I put Lincoln 200 welder on it. Out side tire bellow the tread off. But it holds air to move it around the ranch 5 years latter.  Why my kid ever tried to air it I don't know.  But holds to get a mile or so around the ranch.
Just a week ago one bellow on the back of the swather. Know body has a clue how long it might have been there, but had lots of tread for a caster/crazy wheel.
So as I get old I take the professional tire guys more seriously about not using old tires like we did years ago.
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200Tom1
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Posted: 20 Jul 2023 at 5:10pm |
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My pal bought his grand dad's 1968 ford car. His grand dad bought it new and kept it looking sharp. He brought it to the tire shop and had me put 32 lbs of air in the spare, it was flat at the time. It blew out in the middle of the night. It sprung the hinges on the trunk lid. He was able to find hinges off the same color of car and I got him a new spare tire for it. The car was sitting in the garage attached to his home. Needless to say it wolk both of them up. I did not ask if they need to put clean sheets on the bed.
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