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Posted by: nine14cats Apr 4 2004, 11:03 PM

Check this out. Towing the race car back from Thunderhill today and blam....one of the trailer tires blows up...not flat...just blows up...took out the fiberglass fender cover on the trailer....

Here's a pic...

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Posted by: nine14cats Apr 4 2004, 11:04 PM

I just picked up a full size spare for the trailer last week....I guess fix a flat in a can wouldn't have worked to well on this one!

Crazy weekend...

Posted by: trekkor Apr 4 2004, 11:37 PM

kinda looks like one of those troll dolls.

trekkor

Posted by: Carl Apr 5 2004, 12:00 AM

Bill,
You were telling me that between you and the wife a set of race tires will last, what?, 12 track days? You must be pushing a lot harder if you're shredding trailer tires like that!

Carl

Posted by: Joseph Mills Apr 5 2004, 12:21 AM

Bill,

Sorry about your fender. Glad nothing worse happened.

But that's like a podium stand trophy blowout!

Posted by: synthesisdv Apr 5 2004, 06:16 AM

On the way up to sebring late last year, an enclosed racecar trailer blew a tire a couple hundred feet in front of me. Looked like a bomb.

The fender went about 50' in the air and shrapnel was everywhere, pretty scary.

Most trailers sit unused for weeks or months, the sun really degrades the tires on one side more than the other, that can cause big problems.

dr

Posted by: Don Wohlfarth Apr 5 2004, 07:07 AM

I had a trailer tire explode almost as bad as yours, damn thing let go under a bridge.
I thought someone was shooting at me.
Everytime I hook up I don't move my trailer without checking the air pressure. Takes 2 minutes, a hell of a lot less time than changing a tire on the side of the road.
Don't forget to grease your axle bearings. Trying to match up bearings in podunk on a Sunday evening can get pretty interesting.
This kind of stuff is pretty easy to remember after you've been through it once.