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Originally Posted by CapriRacer
You've glossed over a point that I think is important here - What happens when a tire fails?
Most of the time the vehicle can be brought to a stop with no damage to anything (other than the tire). Sometimes, the tire deflation will allow the rim to contact the ground - and that's gonna mean a new rim.
Sometimes the rapid release of the air will damage the fender - not to mention what the pieces flying off the tire are going to do.
But every so often a tire failure will cause the vehicle to go out of control - perhaps even flip over - and we all know what else might result.
Please keep this in mind as we discuss this issue. I don't want anyone to become a statistic.
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On those statements I have to say that tires do not cause rollovers, drivers do. I do not want to estimate how many millions of miles I have logged driving vehicles of all kinds and towing trailers from small to large. NEVER have I lost control of a vehicle with a blow out. And I have had blow out from disintegrated tires, straight to the rim down to trickles where you here the air leaving one revolution at a time. When a driver panics and gets stupid, stupid things happen. And honestly the only tires I have ever seen physically fail are tractor trailer recaps. They get hot, usually from under inflation and over loading and the glue that holds the caps on fails and lets go, causing either a blow out with launches tread, or tread loss without a blow out.
Unless tires are manufactured with defects, like the Firestone recal, a tire won't fail, it will blow out due to a puncture, but tires do not fail. Obviously some may think I am wrong, but site situations when tires can fail where their maintenance and or abuse is not a factor.