tyre exploding @ 80 mph is not funny !!

[d3x]

note to self, keep a spare pair of undies in car incase of high speed blow out..

glad you made it ok AND kept your car intact! I reckon houdini would have been proud of that one!

[Jimbo]

Quite apt this thread's been resurected as I've had "a bit of a bother" this afternoon.

I think it can be best said in pictures, once I've had a few stiff drinks.....

[HJM]

Jeez - what's happened Jimbo ?

Hope you and your car are ok

[The Vee]

Don't like the sound of this Jimbo. Is everything ok?

[Spirit]

Don't like the sound of this Jimbo. Is everything ok?

Ditto !

Just read this.......what's up Jimbo ???

[Dom B]

I wouldn't worry about the brembo fitting you just take a rear and swap to the front and spacesaver the rear if a front pops.

With the load and incredible torque vectors our cars are capable of I would never use anything less than a 91 W rated tyre. The forces the tyres undergo with 4wd when hammering it are immense compared to normal cars.

Other note. I used to use Goodyear eagle F1 tyres, not cheap but at the time regarded as one of the best. I bought some from a large name online tyre seller and fitted at a local garage. The car never felt good the ayc lights used to come on round sweepers when not pushing it. The tyre never lost its centre moulding but 2000 miles later the edges were knackered. looking at the profile of the tyre the shape was not flat across the tread but high at both edges and pulled in at the centre. The tyre on the other side was fine. I changed the set and the tyre guy put them on top of each other and said the right one looked like a 40 profile tyre despite being marked up as 50 and it certainly was not the same size as the other side. The wall listed a different list of belting layers and material on each tyre. The tyre guy said the odd one was a chinese counterfit!!!! It looked like a Goodyear and was was a direct copy but not a real one.

I gave up on Goodyears now the supply was infected by china and went to Toyo Proxxes T1Rs instead and never looked back. Hopefully china won't copy them with crap fakes any time soon!

[WOODY72]

Wow Dom, sounds like you went through a bad experience with that chinky tyre. In defence of F1's as a retired tyre tech, i used F1's on my 200sx for ten years without any problems at all, and i drive real hard. Have been using them on my VR4 for 18 months now without any probs at all, and i can honestly say i would not entertain anything else. Most of the leading brand tyres i have tried have very similar levels of grip in the dry, but in the wet it's a different story, F1's being far better than anything else. But each to their own. If you are happy with what you are using, then stick to it. Nothing is worse than buying a new set and being unhappy till they wear out.

[Wobble]

7 years and now you reply hmmmm

[kiteman]

After reading all the post's regarding SGHOM's blowout experience, I just clicked this thread started back in may 2005.
Then a few months later some guy called Jimbo had a bit of bother and lots of concern was expressed, then nothing.
Not as much as a hint or rumour of what happened to him.

[Dom B]

Oh don't get me wrong, I love Goodyear F1s, used to use them on all my cars, I just can't be sure I won't get a fake one so I sadly stay clear of them now.

[WOODY72]

Just a freak i expect Dom. In all my years being involved with tyres, i've never seen one.

[MarkSanne]

I've finally tried out a new set of tyres and went from Toyo T1R's to Goodyear Eagle F1's. They feel good. One thing that bugs me: isn't there a mark that indicates the side/rotation? I think all 4 tyres are put on the same way by the tyre fitter...

[Humpty's Revenge]

Mark there should be either a very vague arrow that just looks like part of the pattern or the word outside?

[MarkSanne]

I've searched and searched but couldn't find anything on these Eagle tyres?!

[kiteman]

Mark I've just checked an eagle Fi assymetrical and it has the words "side facing outwards" on the side wall.
It is 180 degrees from the letter G in the word goodyear.

[WOODY72]

They are assymetrical tyres (same side facing outwards) not directional.