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Sorry to be abrupt, but I just got in after being stuck on a side road off the highway. SR84, actually.

My dad tried to pass some moron to get back in the correct lane, and we went over a hill, accelerating in order to pass safely without cutting the other dude off.

Anyway, the genius road architect guy decided to put a blind curb JUST on the opposite side of the crest. We couldn't really go anywhere, but luckily my dad managed to dodge a sign. It looked like that off-ramp paint up ahead...who would know there is a curb there without it being too late? Anyway, we ran over the thing and blew out both left tires. Originally we had thought the front one was the only flat, but it turned out the rear went as well. So, we were more or less ****ed into calling a flatbed. It was POURING rain and we had to wait a pretty long time for the flatbed, let alone finding a tow company. If my dad didn't have the number for another tow company he uses out east, we would've been walking.

I got out of the car and the water was up to my shins. the cab driver was pretty funny. He had some kind of Fuso-looking turbodiesel flatbed. oh. my. god., I've never riden in a flatbed, let alone at those speeds. They might as well've called it "Haul Ass Towing Co." That turbo was screaming and he was doing 95 like the entire time. I thought, "If this guy hits the brakes, or does something, we're totally gonna die. My leg's gonna break on this dashboard and i'm totally going through the windsheild."
My dad told me he was thinking the same afterwards, too.

So, like...yeah. That was my first and only blowout-experience, ever. I'm suprised at how the GS300's electronics kicked in so efficiently, allowing us a safe 200 ft. roll to a safe spot to pull over.

So, The purpose of this topic is to share all your blowout experiences and the stories following. Yeah.
 
Boy, sound like it could've been lot worse. Maybe you and your dad got lucky! 👍
 
I was pulling sedately out of a shopping centre carpark when my differential blew to peices.

Dropped 3 litres of oil, 2 spider gears, the shaft that connects them and numerous peices of the diff housing.

Not quite sure if it is impressive as a tyre blowout but it sure is embarassing..
 
What type of GS300 was it?
I was in similiar accident test driving a GS300 a few years back with my uncle when just all of the suddent, we were riding on extremely little tread left on the rims. The tire itself, just came off, went into the highway middle, then all the way across the other opposite highway.
And the middle is a big dip that actually (believe it or not) about 15 feet across and then narrows near the toll about 1 mile up. Crossing both 3 lane highways with a tire was scary. Park Place was even more surprised. But yes, we did drive back to Park Place...on that small tire tread left.


We got a $25 dollar gift certificate for that for the souvenir shop. We were glad no one behind us hit the tire.
 
Man, strange stuff has been happening to GTP members recently. Your blowout, PRs 120mph into a concrete wall, and my hornet infestation.
 
Event
Man, strange stuff has been happening to GTP members recently. Your blowout, PRs 120mph into a concrete wall, and my hornet infestation.
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It's the coming of GTP 7 or 8....Whatever the next version is.
 
Whats this about PR 120mph?

Damn you guys are lucky you didnt get hurt.
 
:scared: I got these new tires for my MTB (ok so it's not a car) and they arn't tubeless but I have rims to run tubeless. There's this stuff called Stan's no tube that seal the tire on the rim so you don't have to have a tube inside so ultimately it's lighter for your bike. Well, I hope I don't blow out because I've heard of that stuff failing and people blowing out. As for cars I never have and hope I never will :knock on wood:
 
Small_Fryz
Whats this about PR 120mph?

Damn you guys are lucky you didnt get hurt.
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You'll hear about it real soon.
 
Small_Fryz
Whats this about PR 120mph?

Damn you guys are lucky you didnt get hurt.
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PR was racing his Civic on the 'strip. Axle broke, sent him into the wall.

Funny thing is, 2 days before this, I told him on AIM not to drive the car knowing the axle was bad.
 
MistaX
PR was racing his Civic on the 'strip. Axle broke, sent him into the wall.

Funny thing is, 2 days before this, I told him on AIM not to drive the car knowing the axle was bad.
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Oh... yeah, small detail there. :dopey:
 
I had the right-rear tire blow out on my '84 Jetta about 7 years ago.
doing about 110km/h on a highway.
It felt like a missle hit the car.
Wobbled her onto the shoulder with sweaty palms.
 
I actually blew two tires out at the same time on the Blazer. Before it was lowered I was traveling down a local highway and something flew off the truck in front of me, it was a chunk of metal or something. Anyways I couldn't avoid it and it hit the passenger side front tire and flew back and hit the rear passenger. Blew both tires out and did some body damage. The guy someone at least got the plate number of the guy and I was able to get him a ticket, and me some insurence money.
 
BlazinXtreme
[…] and flew back and hit the rear passenger.
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Err, you mean tire, right? :scared:
 
I think I overshot my 120 mph crash by about... 20 mph. Considering where I crashed, it's almost impossible I was travelling at 120. It appears both axles are still relatively intact, from what we could see while dismantling it, so I'm still not sure what happened, considering that was what I thought caused the wreck in the first place. First time out with the new turbo setup, and wham, it's pretty much destroyed... That's racing.


I'd like to thank everyone for the well wishes, however. It's greatly appreciated! :cheers:
 
My first car was a 1985 Plymouth Horizon (insert jokes here) and I blew tires on that hunk of junk twice.

The first time was my first day at college. My parent shad been gone two hours and I decided to give thsi girl I met a ride to Wal-Mart. Turning into the parking lot I brushed a curb and it put a gash in the side of the front opassenger tire. Best part of teh whole thing was that it was a hot day and somehow the lug nut swelled up and got stuck in my tire iron. I had to screw it back on and poor cold water over it to get it back off. It took me about two hours to change that tire.

The second time I was driving to meet some friends at a club and hit a pot hole about a half mile away. Apparently my exhauset had been rusting because the muffler suddenly started dragging up against the rear driver's side tire. In teh time it took me to think, "What is that?" the tire blew. I pulled into the next drive and had just jacked the car up when my friend drove by, saw me, turned around, and helped. Luckily that one only took me about 20 minutes to fix.
 
Sage
Err, you mean tire, right? :scared:
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Yup I meant the tire, I never have passengers in my truck :lol:.
 
PunkRock
I think I overshot my 120 mph crash by about... 20 mph. Considering where I crashed, it's almost impossible I was travelling at 120. It appears both axles are still relatively intact, from what we could see while dismantling it, so I'm still not sure what happened, considering that was what I thought caused the wreck in the first place. First time out with the new turbo setup, and wham, it's pretty much destroyed... That's racing.


I'd like to thank everyone for the well wishes, however. It's greatly appreciated! :cheers:
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Dang, sorry to hear that, Fred. Glad you weren't injured... errr, you weren't, were you?
 
Sorry 'bout the car PR

Not a tire blowout, but still embarrasing and scary.

It was raining cats and dogs and visibility was piss poor. The fact that I was on an extremely busy, fast moving (70km/h limit) road didn't help. All of a sudden, the engine shut off - gas pedal did nothing, 0 rpm, it was off. After just a few seconds, I started losing my ability to steer (the wheel locks up when the engine is off) and my brakes were also getting pretty hard to press down. Somehow I got really lucky and managed to barely coast into a gas station- the car stopped completely as soon as I was out of the road.

I've had the engine die a few times in the past, but it's never happened when the car was rolling.
 
We get flat tires every once in awhile. There usually isn't a story to go with them because we are somewhere along the highway between here and Milwaukee.

We get them because my parents will drive their tires over the maximum mileage the tires were built for.
 
When me and my dads were coming home from my Grandma's once, and we had a scary incident.

My Grandma lives in a pretty freaky place, near all industrial factory's etc (and im always hearing strange noises)... and it's like in the middle of no where.

And we were driving home at night on a road with no street lights.. (it was like a scene in a horror movie).. as we're driving on this road we see headlights from another car coming towards us. He then put his "high beams" on, then i heard a slight screeching noise, and the next thing i know is that he swerved into our lane. HEADING STRAIGHT TOWARDS US!..
My Father had a few words to say "#@%$***&##@" Etc. then slammed on the brakes and swerved off the road hitting the curb (Blowing our front left tyre) then hitting the guard rail smashing our front bumper to pieces. we missed him by about 10 metres. and we both would've been travelling at about 90 Km/h.

That was the scariest incident i have ever encountered while being in the passenger seat of a car.
The worst part is the other bloke just swerved back into his lane, and continued "flooring it" up the road. leaving us there in pitch black...

Luckily me and my father were not hurt, just a few scratches and bruises.
 
he turned his hi-beams on and stuff? was he purposely trying to murder you folks? Too bad you didn't get his plates...you should've pressed charges.

Anyway, that really sucks. It could've wound up like that 60mph head on crash test on 5th Gear. :scared:
 
Duke
Dang, sorry to hear that, Fred. Glad you weren't injured... errr, you weren't, were you?
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Broken left wrist and left radius. I consider myself lucky to get out of all that with only two broken bones and a few bruises.

It's a serious wakeup call, though. Doesn't mean I'll put off racing forever, but I'll be way more cautious about my equipment.
 
PunkRock
Broken left wrist and left radius. I consider myself lucky to get out of all that with only two broken bones and a few bruises.

It's a serious wakeup call, though. Doesn't mean I'll put off racing forever, but I'll be way more cautious about my equipment.
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Wow. I'm really sorry to hear that! :scared: Typing must be a pain in the a**, right about now....
 
It was pretty difficult Friday and Saturday, especially Saturday considering how sore and tired I was, but it's a bit easier now. I'm not saying I could type a novel, but I can work my way around a keyboard relatively easily.
 
Wow, sorry to hear about that P-rock. Is the car a total loss?

Oh and I've never had a flat in a car but quite a few on various bikes.
 
Driving home with my current car, the left rear tire blew. I found that it had a spare tire, but no jack.
Several hours of walking towards my dads house (Somebody who lives along the highway let me use their phone, my stepmom picked me up by the time I was 3/4 of the way there) later, I got back with a jack, but the police and a tow truck were already sitting by my car. The tow truck driver wouldn't just go away, so he charged me 60$ to tow me off the highway (all of 100 meters). I didn't have the cash on me, so he was going to tow my car back to the impound (another 200$), but my stepmom saved me with a credit card.
This is one of several experiences I've had that makes me dispise towing companies.
 
Emohawk
Driving home with my current car, the left rear tire blew. I found that it had a spare tire, but no jack.
Several hours of walking towards my dads house (Somebody who lives along the highway let me use their phone, my stepmom picked me up by the time I was 3/4 of the way there) later, I got back with a jack, but the police and a tow truck were already sitting by my car. The tow truck driver wouldn't just go away, so he charged me 60$ to tow me off the highway (all of 100 meters). I didn't have the cash on me, so he was going to tow my car back to the impound (another 200$), but my stepmom saved me with a credit card.
This is one of several experiences I've had that makes me dispise towing companies.
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There are some bad ones. Tow trucks do good service on one hand, but there are some that are out there, just to rip people off. Taking advantage of people in vulnerable situations, just flatout robbing them. 👎
 
Event
Man, strange stuff has been happening to GTP members recently. Your blowout, PRs 120mph into a concrete wall, and my hornet infestation.
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My cat had to be put down today. Spontaneously.

*Sorry for the irrelevance.
 
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