My wife drives our 5 mostly. We live right about 30 miles from St Paul, where she works. Anyway I put a new set of General Altimax Arctic snow tires on it this past November. I've had the same kind of tires on this 5 already, that wore out, plus I have Altimaxes on our 2 other vehicles, so lots of experience with these tires. Always kept inflated 35psi (air compressor in the garage, I check them so often I wonder if I have OCD or something)
Anyway she was driving home from work 12-26, she heard a loud BANG and could barely get the car over to the shoulder, and eventually couldn't get it to move. SHe doesn't really "do" cars, and was relaying all this to me over the phone on the side of the road. By the time I could get there (had to find someone to watch the kids and call in late to my job) I discovered the entire tread part of the tire separated from the rim, and wrapped itself around the strut. Thank God it didn't pull off the brake line! Pictures of the carnage:
I've NEVER had a tire let go this completely, and I've literally wore out 4 sets of these same tires on my vehicles with NO problems. Has anyone else run into this sort of thing before?
The Tire Rack (where these are from) got me a new wheel/tire in, like, 3 days even with the holidays going on so everything is back to normal now.
Anyway she was driving home from work 12-26, she heard a loud BANG and could barely get the car over to the shoulder, and eventually couldn't get it to move. SHe doesn't really "do" cars, and was relaying all this to me over the phone on the side of the road. By the time I could get there (had to find someone to watch the kids and call in late to my job) I discovered the entire tread part of the tire separated from the rim, and wrapped itself around the strut. Thank God it didn't pull off the brake line! Pictures of the carnage:
I've NEVER had a tire let go this completely, and I've literally wore out 4 sets of these same tires on my vehicles with NO problems. Has anyone else run into this sort of thing before?
The Tire Rack (where these are from) got me a new wheel/tire in, like, 3 days even with the holidays going on so everything is back to normal now.