Hi
any one know what would cause a 5 year old tire with 1000 miles on a show car to suddenly break the bead at 20 MPH. It was inflated to 32 PSI.
The bead wasent blown out or torn up it just appeared to have come off the the bead but it stayed inside the rim
Tire was a Eagle GT 195/60/14 on a stock 14x7 ford rim.
The bead broke I heard whoos woosh woosh and it was flat as a pancake.
I took it to goodyear and got soaked into buying another 4 b/c he said it "MAY" have become brilttle and dry from age.
Heck I had tires way longer then that and they werent brittle. These had no cracks any where on them either
He tried to sellme rims as he said they can be bent. I havent hit anything and never had the prob b4 this. The rims have some slight wave to them after 40 years or use but arent all too bad or bent up in my opionion to casue this.
any ideas.
Thanks
any one know what would cause a 5 year old tire with 1000 miles on a show car to suddenly break the bead at 20 MPH. It was inflated to 32 PSI.
The bead wasent blown out or torn up it just appeared to have come off the the bead but it stayed inside the rim
Tire was a Eagle GT 195/60/14 on a stock 14x7 ford rim.
The bead broke I heard whoos woosh woosh and it was flat as a pancake.
I took it to goodyear and got soaked into buying another 4 b/c he said it "MAY" have become brilttle and dry from age.
Heck I had tires way longer then that and they werent brittle. These had no cracks any where on them either
He tried to sellme rims as he said they can be bent. I havent hit anything and never had the prob b4 this. The rims have some slight wave to them after 40 years or use but arent all too bad or bent up in my opionion to casue this.
any ideas.
Thanks