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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 08:44 PM
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Is it rare that a tire tears from the stretch ?
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Old Oct 24, 2013 | 08:46 PM
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Stretching tires is unsafe.
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 03:20 AM
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Originally Posted by SiiiAlbert
Is it rare that a tire tears from the stretch ?
Not rare at all, actually.
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by SiiiAlbert
Is it rare that a tire tears from the stretch ?
What do you consider rare?
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 11:40 AM
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seeing tires not stretched is rare.
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 01:16 PM
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yea if the tire is way to small for the rim, or someone has no idea what there doing
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 03:02 PM
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I was going to post some pics but all you need to do is google: stretched tire fail and you will see consequence of stretching the tire
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