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Well....
I have a little bit of unfortunate news to tell. Last week I was on my way back up to Stephenville from Fredericksburg on Highway 16, and I had almost made it to Llano when my left rear tire decided to throw the rubber while cruising at 70 mph. Luckily, there was not any traffic and the tire did not actually blow out, and I was able to safely get my truck off the road just riding on the bare body casing of the tire. The damage wasn't too bad, but it did manage to put a decent dent in the underside turn of the rear quarter panel (you can't really see it but it did mess up the paint). It also broke the bracket/brace that holds the body panel in front of the rear tire, and did some slight damage in front of the tire and messed up some of the paint there as well. It made me so mad when it happened that I couldn't even say a word, and there were some people with me and let's just say that they kept a safe distance 
. So now I get to fix that bracket, and hopefully I can fix the dent behind the tire. Oh, and the tire was the original Michelin spare that had less than 1,000 miles on it, and the tire had no dry rotting or cracks at all. Therefore there is no reason that it should have thrown the tread 
. So be careful of the so called "good" tires that you buy because you might not get any warning. The End.
Dawson
. So now I get to fix that bracket, and hopefully I can fix the dent behind the tire. Oh, and the tire was the original Michelin spare that had less than 1,000 miles on it, and the tire had no dry rotting or cracks at all. Therefore there is no reason that it should have thrown the tread . So be careful of the so called "good" tires that you buy because you might not get any warning. The End.Dawson
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Not trying to be mean, but you were dealing with a 16 year old tire, michelin or not it was bound to blow. A tire of that age has only one place, in the scrap heap. It won't show any dry rot cracks because it has lived it's life underneath the truck out of the UV rays, but the rubber is still deteriorated from old age. Just my .02.
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Thought you just said something about not having anything to do
. Take care and we'll see you at the pulls. Next time I see ya I gotta come over and introduce you to the real pulling fan in my bunch, my 4 year old.
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I have a little bit of unfortunate news to tell. Last week I was on my way back up to Stephenville from Fredericksburg on Highway 16, and I had almost made it to Llano when my left rear tire decided to throw the rubber while cruising at 70 mph. Luckily, there was not any traffic and the tire did not actually blow out, and I was able to safely get my truck off the road just riding on the bare body casing of the tire. The damage wasn't too bad, but it did manage to put a decent dent in the underside turn of the rear quarter panel (you can't really see it but it did mess up the paint). It also broke the bracket/brace that holds the body panel in front of the rear tire, and did some slight damage in front of the tire and messed up some of the paint there as well. It made me so mad when it happened that I couldn't even say a word, and there were some people with me and let's just say that they kept a safe distance . So now I get to fix that bracket, and hopefully I can fix the dent behind the tire. Oh, and the tire was the original Michelin spare that had less than 1,000 miles on it, and the tire had no dry rotting or cracks at all. Therefore there is no reason that it should have thrown the tread . So be careful of the so called "good" tires that you buy because you might not get any warning. The End.
Dawson
. So now I get to fix that bracket, and hopefully I can fix the dent behind the tire. Oh, and the tire was the original Michelin spare that had less than 1,000 miles on it, and the tire had no dry rotting or cracks at all. Therefore there is no reason that it should have thrown the tread . So be careful of the so called "good" tires that you buy because you might not get any warning. The End.Dawson
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I love my smarty. I got the new one with revo and it is freakin awesome!! With it just on 3, it almost feels better than any chip or programmer I've ever had. Its nice smooth power, and my egts never break over the 12 hundred mark. It pulls freakin awesome, and surprisingly, its extremely fast for just being a 60 hp setting. I smoked an old mustang gt the other day, and the kid stopped to talk to me afterwards thinkin I had a ton of stuff done. Granted he couldn't drive, and missed like 2 gears, but still, it felt good.
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cbtumedic,
I know that it was an old tire, and I can't say that that wasn't the cause for it failing. It would seem like the tire would at least show some signs of the tread separating like a bulge or bubble under the tread or cracks where the tread meets the sidewall. There's nothing I can do to change it so there is no sense in stressing about it. The neat thing about that tire is that the original four just like it that were on the truck lasted 85,000 miles. And then the two Michelin sets that followed got better than 80,000 miles as well. But that was back when they made tires that are worth the money unlike they do now.
Dawson
