On another aspect, my wife was driving up to Chapel Hill the other day,
and out in the middle of nowhere on I95 she had a LF blowout on the
Suburban. From her description I thought it might have been a puncture
from something on the road, she was not sure but she thought she heard
something hit the inner fender, or something indicating an acute
failure. Anyway, she called AAA and they put on the spare. The tires
were getting to the point they needed to be replaced, so she had that
done up there, and they put the blown-out tire in a bag for her to bring
home to show me. I took one look at it, and right in the middle of the
tread was perfect 1/4" punched hole, with a circle around it about 1.25"
diameter, looked like a bolt or something had hit it straight on. She
probably heard the bolt hit the fender when it got thrown out. The
tire was totally destroyed, the sidewalls ripped open most of the way
around, radially, and a good part of the tread belt was separated from
both sides. So it just decompressed almost immediately from that
puncture and almost totally shredded.
It kinda freaked her out, but she managed to get the truck off the road
OK and not lose (loose) control or anything.
Teaching her to change a tire is a futile effort, and probably safer
anyway to have someone come to do it on that road.
$800 for a new set of tires installed...damn those things have got
expensive.
--R
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