http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2994685Oh my.
Ms. Ed, the unappellated eohippus:
Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-11-08 10:51 PM
Original message
My tire exploded today
I have never had anything like that happen before.
The car started making a funny noise...I got out, checked the tires. They seemed to be fine. My car felt like something was going to fall out from under it.
I drove another couple of miles...and BOOM! The entire thing exploded.
The ENTIRE drivers side of my car is black--and the entire tread came off in one piece.
It LOOKS like a retread--although it most certainly was not.
I am taking the tire back tomorrow--and they are going to have to do something about the damage to my car.
Luckily...this nice 15 year old kid came up and asked me if I needed help to change it.
Who says kids aren't nice these days? You could tell the kid didn't have a lot. I forced him to take $20--if nothing more than the inconvenience that it was to me and I was dressed up...I'd hated to have to crawl on the ground changing that.
Anyway...it is nice to know there are nice folks out there.
Yes, there's lots and lots of nice folks out there, but Ms. Ed isn't one of them herself.
OhioChick (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-11-08 10:54 PM
Response to Original message
1. Yes, There are still nice people out there....
Unfortunately, sometimes the bad seem to overshadow the good.
I hope you get your car/tire situation straightened out and fixed.
mdmc (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-11-08 10:55 PM
Response to Original message
3. he probably saw your KUCINICH bumper sticker and thought you could use some good vibes.
Kali (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-11-08 10:59 PM
Response to Original message
4. I hate when that happens.
You know, I'm confused.
I've had one flat tire in all of my driving life--the front driver side.
What I recall is a "sense" of rumble-rumble-rumble as I was zooming along at 85 mph, after which I immediately stopped the vehicle; I thought someone else was wrong, and didn't check the tires until I noticed nothing else was wrong.
tachyon (142 posts) Tue Mar-11-08 10:59 PM
Response to Original message
5. It's good you're okay, a blowout CAN be damn dangerous!`
Good luck with the claim, though...chances of them doing any more than giving you prorated credit on the tire (if they sold it to you) are slim and slimmer, unfortunately.
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-11-08 11:01 PM
Response to Original message
6. Call your insurance company as well
they keep a database on this... and was it a michellin?
We had one blow up on my hubby
And you have no idea how lucky you are that you only have physical damage
Good for you.
Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-11-08 11:10 PM
Response to Reply #6
7. It was a Goodyear.
It peeled like a banana.
I have never seen anything like it.
Aren't Goodyear tires now made in the socialist paradise of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, Red China?
Shouldn't Ms. Ed rationalize this incident, lest she make her ideological bedfellows look bad?
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-11-08 11:12 PM
Response to Reply #7
8. I know, it is freaky
by the way the damages are covered by your insurance if you have good insurance. Why you should ask your agent
Our car, was taken care off by our insurance company and it needed extensive front quarter panel repairs \replacement
Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-11-08 11:13 PM
Response to Reply #8
11. When I paid it off
I dropped the full coverage. I am carrying 4 cars and just couldn't continue to carry it on all of them.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Whoa.
The unappellated eohippus alleged a couple of months ago that she makes circa $24,000 per year as an R.N. (her monthly medical insurance premiums, $500, were 25% of her monthly income)--and now she's driving around with four motor vehicles?
Whoa.
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-11-08 11:16 PM
Response to Reply #11
14. I get it, still wroth a try
After all, it is NOT your fault that the tire failed
After which the primitives as usual suggest suing, and then the bonfire goes off into other directions.
kevinbgoode (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-12-08 12:16 AM
Response to Original message
16. I don't know where you live, but if I were you, I'd contact my local media. . .get their consumer reporter. And then, as you start to mount your complaints at the retailer and the manufacturer AND deal with the car damage, let the newspaper/TV station follow the story. Think of it as not only providing a public service, but warning consumers about purchasing certain brands of tires.
I get nervous enough on my tires just driving 60 miles once a week to teach a night class - though they are still comfortably under warranty. When I bought my car ten years ago, I tossed the stupid temporary spare away and my Dad went to a junkyard, found a rim and I purchased a new tire to use as a spare. I just sometimes forget to keep it inflated.... .
At any rate, it is appalling that a tire could BLOW UP like that. Go flat. . .well, that can happen. . .but BLOW UP?
magellan (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-12-08 12:38 AM
Response to Original message
17. One of our Goodyears did that recently too
The wall of the tire simply exploded out. We were doing 70 not a minute before but thankfully my husband was slowing down because he thought something in the steering suddenly felt funny. We'd never seen anything like it. Not flat, the wall was just GONE. The tires weren't new, but we get them checked regularly and do very little driving. We put it down to the effects of the fearsome heat year after year in FL.
I'm glad you're safe and had your faith in kids restored as a side benefit!
It's a medium-sized bonfire; the primitive making the final comment (not worth quoting) verifies that yes, Goodyear tires are made in the socialist paradise of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, Red China.
I don't think it's a good idea for Ms. Ed to diss her fellow ideogogues; she should have kept this mishap under wraps, so they wouldn't look bad.
