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[scootr]

Many years ago the then girlfriend was driving down hill on the parkway when she saw a wheel pass her on the left. A bit later when she pulled off the car tipped over the left. Apparently the wheel she saw was hers

 

[Dftodd]

Many years ago the then girlfriend was driving down hill on the parkway when she saw a wheel pass her on the left. A bit later when she pulled off the car tipped over the left. Apparently the wheel she saw was hers

I had a DOT inspection on a F550 service truck. The dude doing the inspection overtightened and stripped out the lugnuts on one the rear passenger side duals.

I was going down a toll road in Orlando FL. I was in the center exit lane which could go either east or west bound onto another toll road.

Felt the back passengerside dip and start to wobble. Figured I had a blow out.

I looked up just in time to see one of my rear tires pass me and merge west bound onto the toll road

That was a long morning. Thankfully the tire went between some cars and rolled down the breakdown lane before stopping. I was in rush hour traffic and figured that tire would have smoked someone, but thankfully it didn't.

We found the tire sitting in the grass about 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile down the road.

 

[two_bit_score]

Apparently the wheel she saw was hers

A friend had a little 2 door 1980 Ford Escort and drove from Houston to Conroe (which was not near as congested back in 1981 as now) and lost the left rear wheel somewhere right out of Houston because that was when people started waving at him. But he never thought to check anything and just waved back and kept driving. Didnt notice it until he pulled into his driveway. Those front wheel drive Escorts were tiny cars, esp a 2 dr.

 

[FriendwithTractor]

When I was a younger man, A friend had an old Dodge Caravan from the early 2000's that was dearly loved. But, like all early 2000s Dodge Caravans, the van was in a constant state of distress. This time I was following him in my truck to get the rotors looked at. We were maybe 2 miles from the garage at a stoplight. Light turned green and the only thing that went forward was the driver's side front wheel. It made it 15-20 feet into the intersection with my friend in hot pursuit (on foot).

That was the beginning of a very not so fun day for my friend and I.

 

[WinterDeere]

I had a DOT inspection on a F550 service truck. The dude doing the inspection overtightened and stripped out the lugnuts on one the rear passenger side duals...
I looked up just in time to see one of my rear tires pass me and merge west bound onto the toll road

Same thing happened to us in the NJ pine barrens. Noticed an egg forming on the sidewall of the driver's side tire of the boat trailer, and stopped at a garage in Burlington, NJ to have a new tire mounted. Fifteen minutes later, we're cruising thru a sparsely-populated section of the pine barens when the wheel came off and passed us, sailing off somewhere into the woods on the side of the road. Made a mess of the trailer and fender, but thankfully the boat and everyone in the car survived. Single 3500 lb. axle, probably running near max rating with that boat, behind a 1978 Ford LTD wagon, ca.1983.

 

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[Dftodd]

Same thing happened to us in the NJ pine barrens. Noticed an egg forming on the sidewall of the driver's side tire of the boat trailer, and stopped at a garage in Burlington, NJ to have a new tire mounted. Fifteen minutes later, we're cruising thru a sparsely-populated section of the pine barens when the wheel came off and passed us, sailing off somewhere into the woods on the side of the road. Made a mess of the trailer and fender, but thankfully the boat and everyone in the car survived. Single 3500 lb. axle, probably running near max rating with that boat, behind a 1978 Ford LTD wagon, ca.1983.

I was coming back on a two lane highway from Melbourne FL, to Yeehaw junction.

I got stuck behind a truck hauling a construction office trailer.

Noticed a wobble for a few seconds and then a wheel and hub came off one of the trailer axles.

Just as it let loose and traveled into the other lane, the tire got smoke by a Pontiac fiero coming the other direction.

That tire and hub launched straight up about 50ft in the air.

Well I'm freaking out since I'm headed for where that tire seems to be headed.

I'm slowing down and trying to keep an eye on the tire to make sure it doesn't come through the window. Then.... I lost site of it

It came down next to the truck in the ditch and bounced off into the seco palms on the side of the road.

The truck driver, either didn't realize he lost the tire, or didn't want to stop and kept going. I ended up calling highway patrol and reporting the driver after chasing him for a few miles to get the tag number.

 

[dstig1]

I was on I-80 going through Iowa City a couple years ago, and had a semi tire/wheel pass me on the shoulder. This was on a stretch that had the concrete median wall, and it just kept on going - bouncing/sliding along that wall. I backed way down and watched it eventually bounce off to the right and off the roadway. No other traffic was around, strangely (maybe they all stopped, behind me?). Funny, I thought at first, then realized how lucky I was.

Must be something about I80 in Iowa About 1.5 years ago my coworkers and I in a car driving back from Omaha watched a trailer disassemble itself in front of us over the space of 10 miles. We saw it starting and stayed well back but the driver was apparently clueless and just kept going.

Having drive through Iowa many times I have a saying: "In Iowa there are cars in the ditch". And I don't mean shoulder. Always see at least one and you often look at it and go WTF?

 

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[mrmikey]

Seen this one awhile ago, sorry if it's already been posted:

 

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Bruce

Spray pilots are a different breed. The orchard I worked at hired one in spring, when the ground was too wet to drive with a tractor. I've seen him come up through their orchard and over the cold storage building so low that he had to lift the tail to keep from dragging it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Took this one recently, must have come off the right side.

 

[WinterDeere]

Seen this one awhile ago, sorry if it's already been posted:

Driving thru western PA about 20 years ago, I was just about to pass a semi when one of its left rear trailer tires blew out and then left its retread in our path. Truck was probably doing 80-85 mph, and I had probably pushed the needle temporarily closer to 95 mph to overtake him, which are actually pretty common speeds for that section of road. We were in my wife's then-new Audi A3, which if you know the car, is a tiny little thing... but nimble!

In any case, it happened just as we were pulling up almost even with the axle carrying the failing tire, and the explosion was so loud from where we were sitting that I thought we'd been hit. Somehow managed to avoid the peeling retread, so our ending was better than the folks in that video.

I really do feel retread tires should be illegal, as they create a serious hazard for other vehicles on the road. I don't think anyone is ever going to wreck a semi driving over a discarded retread, but it could be the end of many smaller cars at highway speeds.

 

[Peter 315]

They will only recap tires that are 6 years old or newer . We run them on the sander/plow trucks no blowouts at 25mph and freezing cold outside...lol

 

[orezok]

I was towing my travel trailer to a very small state park in the Redwoods. When I pulled up to the entrance road I stopped as the final 3/4 mile was a 1 lane “path” with no place to pull off if someone was coming out. At some points the Redwoods were less than a foot clear on both sides. I always stopped to check that the way was clear.

As I sat there a pickup pulls up and asks if I lost a tire. I checked and all 4 were on the trailer, but I looked under and the spare was gone with just a frayed cable from the hoist left.

Now when the cable broke the tire must have fell exactly flat to pass under both axles. Had it kicked up I could have launched the trailer like the car in the previous video.

 

[duramaxsky]

Driving thru western PA about 20 years ago, I was just about to pass a semi when one of its left rear trailer tires blew out and then left its retread in our path. Truck was probably doing 80-85 mph, and I had probably pushed the needle temporarily closer to 95 mph to overtake him, which are actually pretty common speeds for that section of road. We were in my wife's then-new Audi A3, which if you know the car, is a tiny little thing... but nimble!

In any case, it happened just as we were pulling up almost even with the axle carrying the failing tire, and the explosion was so loud from where we were sitting that I thought we'd been hit. Somehow managed to avoid the peeling retread, so our ending was better than the folks in that video.

I really do feel retread tires should be illegal, as they create a serious hazard for other vehicles on the road. I don't think anyone is ever going to wreck a semi driving over a discarded retread, but it could be the end of many smaller cars at highway speeds.

It's not the retreads. If the tire is run low it will do that new tire or retread. Those failures are at the sidewall where it meets the tread. Retread or new it makes no difference. The problem is that with a tire next to it holding it up in most cases on the trailer the driver has no idea. Since it's not unusual to drive 5 or 6 hours without stopping the tire has plenty of time to fail. A lot of newer trailers have a system that keeps the tire inflated if the leak isn't too bad and a white light come on the front of the trailer. But most trailers don't have them. But retreads are fine as long as they are properly inflated. They don't fail any more often than new tires. Infact the last one I had fail was on a new trailer and was a new tire. Our trailers had that system for several years but it's got a lot of problems. So they stopped getting it. That failure on my new trailer would not have happened if it had that.

 

[California]

Seen this one awhile ago, sorry if it's already been posted:

I once got launched like that little Kia. Thankfully, less serious.

First generation Scout, IH tin on Jeep CJ running gear. Employer overloaded it with stuff to take up to Squaw Valley for our survey office there. I got up the grade to Auburn when BAM! and I was looking nose-down at the pavement for a moment.

RR wheel had snapped off at the wheel bearing and launched me as the chassis rode up over it.

I slid to a stop in the freeway as traffic darted around me. Engaged 4x4 to drag the carcass over to the shoulder.

 

[Grumpycat]

They will only recap tires that are 6 years old or newer . We run them on the sander/plow trucks no blowouts at 25mph and freezing cold outside...lol

The usual problem with recaps is the new tread not bonding to the carcass.

After shaving the carcass is visually inspected for separation. Suspect areas are drilled to see if the rubber comes up when the drill bit is extracted. Isn't a perfect process but when I witnessed in 1978 that was what they had. Many failed.

 

[BravoXray]

Seen this one awhile ago, sorry if it's already been posted:

My question is, how could the driver of the truck not have felt something going on in the front end before the tire came off?
There has been a couple of times when I drove someone else's vehicle and they had a loose wheel or really bad wheel bearing, and you'd have to be deaf and numb not the hear or feel it. Both times I nursed the vehicle back to the lot and parked it. Both drivers said they never knew anything was wrong.

 

[mrmikey]

My question is, how could the driver of the truck not have felt something going on in the front end before the tire came off?

May have occurred over a long timeframe, it was so gradual he never noticed it....maybe?