MythBusters 18 Wheelers, Can Exploding Tires Kill?

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Tires and other things involving trucks. May good pieces of information passed along to the general public.    .....Hippy

 

[tjc transport]

i remember that episode and almost fell out of my chair laughing at it.

when a tire lets go, the tread does not come off the tire like they sent it with their machine. when a cap of a tire peals off, it does not shoot out like shot from a cannon. it peels slowly over a few rotations. even if a tire blows out.  

you will have a much better chance of being seriously hurt by the glass from the window than buy a piece of tire when riding behind or alongside a truck.

the only time i ever saw anyone seriously hurt or killed in 55 years driving was when the whole wheel came off and hit a car going the opposite direction, or a state worker on the side of the road. 

[Mark T]

Maybe it's just me, but all I noticed was that chick  what a cutie 

[mrsmackpaul]

If you have Facelessbook this will work

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Even if you don't I reckon it will work

 

Paul

[mowerman]

same here TJ   i believe they can do some real damage,,,but in 49 years of truck driving ive only seen them fly around the wheel opening and then pieces of cap  come out the back,,,alotta times  tear off the mudflap and sometimes the bracket  ,bob 

[GA_Dave]

Years ago, I responded to a wreck on the Interstate where a Nissan pickup had run over a retread that had just come off a semi.  It got wrapped up in his right front wheel, forcing him into a hard left turn at 65 MPH.  His Nissan rolled three or four times, totally destroying it, but he was basically uninjured.  He was sitting on a nearby guardrail when we arrived on scene, crying.  It was his first new vehicle and he had just bought it that morning.  The option/price sticker was stuck to the shattered glass that had been the window!