agranado

on my way up to the o-town meet this past weekend.

I ran over a metal wire type thing when I first got on to the highway and said to myself "fuck, Im gonna get a flat".

Well, I drove on for a little bit and didnt feel anything, so I figured everything was all good.

About 5 exits up, bam. This shit happens. Luckily I felt it soon enough before the entire thing ripped (i was doing around 80 at this point)

So, did i expect a bad flat was coming after I ran that shit over? Yes.

Did I expect the tread to stay intact but for the sidewall to rip like paper? Fuck no.

Anyone wanna shed some light on this?

DaInFaMMuS1

holy fucking shit thats dangerous. I would be in a RAGE if that were me. The tire company would have to make me some special tires with my name on em for some shit like that with the amount you probably paid for the tires

subbuzz

:bighuh: good thing your ok,that looks ugly.i had escta's on my saturn (17's) nothing but bubbles/probs. sorry man,get that fixed asap......

SwervinCL

Well, Kuhmos are out.

Glad your ok bro...

hybridnrg

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i say send an email to Kuhmo with this picture and say WTF?!?!?

h2o-pr00f

Glad you are ok... is the rim damaged?

97BlackAckCL

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Wow, you are lucky u saw what you ran over, and can you say refund?

My boy's kumho ecsta 18 just did almost the SAME thing after he hit a sewer grate, wow, glad the guy at ntb convinced me to get yoko's instead of kumho's

teh CL

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i got kuhmos and their fine

danielsmi

FOR NOW!! DUN DUN DUN!!!

OMG, You totally just jinxed yourself be careful driving, if I were you I wouldn't drive tomorrow, or ever!!

97BlackAckCL

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It's not like he'd be driving very fast!





Sorry silver, u do have a 2.x

CleanCL

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given the benefit of the doubt that each exit is roughly a mile apart, you drove 5 miles after running over a metal wire, and clearly expected to get a flat... sorry but this sounds like your fault.

kraftey

I have 3 different tires on my car!

Front two are Kumho Ecsta Supra 712's (not 711! :P)
And the right rear and left rear are something else that was there when I bought the car.

agranado

I thought the same, trust me. And like I said, I was expecting a BAD flat.

However, this ripped right at the sidewall. Look at the pic. Can running over something like that just straight rip the sidewall and skip the flat part?

and I have had flats before, So I know what it feels like. This was something different all together. Dunno..

agranado

and yes, the rim got some paint damage to add along now to my completely busted and fucked up rear one.

Why are these rims getting all fucked up on me.. Im really not that bad a driver.

subbuzz

in his defense he can go just as fast as us........



it just takes him a year and a day longer to get there than us 3.0's

3.0>2.x

agranado

You're assuming that your trannies can get you that high without breaking, and even that's already assuming too much.

subbuzz

don't feel bad, my one rim is shot after a curbed the f*ck out of it the other day.(lip is )back to parking 101 for me.

sad but true.

agranado

That's the thing though. I've never curbed my lips. just this tire thing and the brake fluid on the other rim

bebop.fey

my kumho's were bomb shit! =) lol sorry to hear

agranado

I dont know if you mean that they were the bomb! (good) or that if they were shit (bad) =[

03silvertypeS

i got the 711s on 2 of my stock 17s, that pic isn't making me very happy about that purchase. I'm still debating on putting my 17s back on for the winter or just leavin the 18s on it since i won't be driving it much in the winter

CleanCL

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i've driven on tires going flat before, all kinds, and each and every time the inside of the tires were melted/shredded. if i had gone any longer it would have resulted in a picture like yours. when the tire is going flat an extreme amount of heat builds up and virtually melts the tire, it doesnt matter about the brand. not to mention you have no idea the initial damage caused by the thing you ran over. it may have gotten stuck and then littlerally ripped ur tire off after driving on it.

slamed_cl_on_18z

^^very true trust me im the KING of melting and shredding tires you should know this and have seen my tires before. Does this make me MAD JDM YO!!????

732xghost

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^^^ im the most JDM on AZ, sorry

damn me and my best friend have kuhmo's

i have ecsta asx all seasons

and my boy has supra 712's on his bimmer.

bebop.fey

my kumho's didn't fail me and they were really good! iono maybe something happened while driving =/
my friends don't have any problems too

97BlackAckCL

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:ghey:

Jamz

that tire looks pretty bald....is it?


I had 711's on my last rim package. The place I got them from couldn't tell me over the phone what Kumho they were mounting my rims on...only that they were Kumho's. I was expecting 712's and got 711's.....BIG difference!!

I got a good price on the package, but you get what you pay for with the 711's....they suck

Viscous

Damn, good thing you pulled over before that tire came off completely. That fucking sucks.

My kumho 712's were ridiculous shit too, got air bubbles on the REAR tire after only like 3k miles. The front ones always tramlined whenever I went over any groove on the freeway.
Got some better tires now, thank god.

agranado

Tires werent as bald as they appear.. they still had some decent tread left.

teh CL

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bastards, all of you...i'll get all of you back

and dont worry i wont be goin anywhere anytime soon cuz my car is in like a million pieces



gettin closer to paint day though