Wow rough day!
 

Well I was initially greeted by a flat tire on the grand prix that I took off and brought to Mavis to get fixed. Ends up being a whole in the sidewall, tire is junk. OK no biggie it happens. So I went to a friends wedding and on the way home I get a slight shimmy in the brakes of the Tahoe that gradually gets stronger. So I limp the truck home staying off the brakes and about a 1/2 mile from my house KABOOM! the right rear tire literally blows apart and I lose brakes completely. get it whoaed down and am sitting very precariously on one of the narrow roads that people fly down by my house, at midnight. I see a gaping whole in the sidewall of the tire so I made the decision to drive it the last 1/2 mile home slowly and use the trans to stop the truck when I get home which went fine but there is some pretty bad damage to the truck. Without even getting the wheel off the tire is obviously DEAD, the rear rotor has a crack in it and I am not even sure what caused the brake issue yet. fun fun!

Edit: alot of the damage on the tire is from driving it, the initial blow out is by the valve stem

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That looks like fun! NOT!!!!!!

wow was just your day for tires huh?!?!

Damn man.

I just had to put 4 new rubbers on the Saturn cause they were so worn that they got real real choppy. LOL

Atleast your ok and you didnt ignore it.

well buy elcheapo tires and you ll alway get what ya pay for!
luckely you didnt get hurt or hurt someone else.
I would change all those tires and stems for sure!!!!!

Hey man I have been running Nitto's for years and never had an issue with any of their stuff, in fact 9 out of 10 times they exceed my expectations for what I was expecting to get. You can go pay $400.00 a tire for Michelin's or Pirellis, I'll stick with these.

maybe a bad batch?
sidewall blowouts are bad news!
and you still got some tread left.
how old are they?
Maybe dry rot ?

damn that sucks! good thing u didnt get hurt tho!

shitty times. i hate those type of days

I think the tire was induced by the crappiness of the road I live on. Tires are 4 years old, have about 40K on them

Nittos are el cheapos? They are very highly regarded, about half the people on this forum use or have used them, myself included.

Dude that sucks. good thing you didnt end up hitting anything.

:ditto: