garados

iTrader: (3)

Haha, it was kinda funny. Last saturday, I decide to check my tires, just to make sure they're good, and they are. 35 psi all around. Anyway, on sunday, my dad says that my back driver-side tire looks a little wierd, and I say it can't be. I just checked it. So we both stop worrying about it.

Anyway, on to Monday. I'm heading off for school, and I take the freeway entrance normally at 50 mph with a 40mph speed limit and a 30 mph recommended speed. No big deal, but the back end seems to slide out a little bit. Not really a bad thing, since I got off the throttle a little. Anyway, after about 10 minutes on the freeway, I exit and head off for the school parking lot. I turn into it at about 10 or 15 mph, then right after I hit the apex, *poofft* and the back end kicks out and I'm pointed off at a wall. I downshift quickly and countersteer, and I get the car pointed the right way again. Again, no big deal. I look in the rearview mirror, and the woman driving is freakin out cause of my driving skillz =P

So, I'm looking for a space, and I go over this pot hole, and the front goes thuds over like normal, but the back left tire just plops. I was all, "crap, my tire's flat." Wrong. I park, and look, and the tire is completely off the wheel =\

Check your tires, everybody. You don't know when they'll just come off

edit: There was a few holes in the tire from foreign debris, so that's what caused the tire to become flat and come off the wheel when I took the turn into the parking lot.

King_j

good advice

B2FiNiTY

iTrader: (2)

dang you got lucky not to wreck your car.

garados

iTrader: (3)

hell yeah I did glad it came off in the parking lot, and not on the freeway

trigun7469

I have seen some ones tire fly off during a HPDE it was not good at all, its always good to check your tires and torche them I do it after every session at HPDE, but you seemed to be lucky that time