<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Rear blowouts are more dangerous than front. Cars have a higher tendency to oversteer during a rear blowout.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> During the Ford/Firestone issues in the 90's most deaths were from rear blowouts that the driver over corrected causing the vehicle to flip.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto" id="composer_signature"><div dir="auto" style="font-size:12px;color:#575757">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto" align="left"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: PaulHunt73 <paulhunt73@virginmedia.com> </div><div>Date: 7/25/23 9:02 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: mgs@autox.team.net </div><div>Subject: Re: [Mgs] FYI </div><div><br></div></div>Jay Leno is hardly poor :o)<br><br>Mine was tubed and I expected it to be shredded, but it just had a cut <br>about 3" long. One of the spokes had broken, normally they just lose <br>the head in the hub and the pressure keeps the main part in the rim. <br>This was missing altogether, heaven knows where that went. A rear tyre, <br>I can't remember what the sensation was when it suddenly deflated at <br>70mph, but it was so mild I just brought the car to a halt as I normally <br>would. Rear tyre so may have helped, and passenger side so safer to <br>change on the motorway. Touring fully laden so stuff had to be unloaded.<br><br>PaulH.<br><br>On 24/07/2023 17:23, Max Heim wrote:<br>> It just occurred to me that I bought my current tires for my previous <br>> car, which left the premises in 2018, and was in a state of <br>> disassembly for 3 or 4 years before that. So they might date back to <br>> 2014 or even 2012. Still at least 70% tread left and the sidewalls <br>> look fine with no cracking. They have always been parked out of the <br>> sun under a carport with a car cover. I am not too concerned about <br>> sudden failure since they contain inner tubes.<br>><br>> I did once have an abrupt deflation incident with a previous set due <br>> to highway debris, but didn’t have any trouble keeping the car under <br>> control, and I changed to the spare on the roadside.<br>><br>> --<br>> Max Heim<br>> '66 MGB<br>><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Mgs@autox.team.net<br>Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html<br>Suggested annual donation $12.75<br><br>Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/mgs http://autox.team.net/archive<br><br>Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/mgs/cgmoog@optonline.net<br></body></html>