I had a tractor tire do this once. We heard it like a dynamite blast,
checked all the sheds to see if a can had exploded. Two days later we
finally noticed the tractor. No way to figure out what caused it.

Jim

On May 29, 2007, at 7:02 PM, Allen Hill wrote:

> No thunderstorms (or rain) in this area for quite a long while.
> Also, the
> tire was checked at 45 psi last winter and was covered with one of
> those HD
> vinyl covers.  Just the way that it was so totally shredded is what
> is so
> strange!
>
>
> Route 66 Rider!
> Ramon Hill
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> Behalf Of
> Jake de Villiers
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:13 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Mounted Spare Blowout
>
> Did you have a thunderstorm?
>
> On 5/29/07, Mike Collum <collum@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hmmmm ... Was it a tire rated for 35 psi inflated to 50 psi?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> Allen Hill wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any idea why the spare would just blow out while
>> mounted on the
>>> carrier?  The weather is in the mid 80s and the parking platform is
>> shaded by a number of large trees.
>>
>
>
>
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