jambojeef
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| posted on 24/11/06 at 05:45 PM |
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BANG! - and the tyre is gone
Apologies to all those I made late for work this morning when they encountered lots of flashing lights heading North on the A1 round Newcastle
On my way to work this morning in the daily driver and a little thud from the back of the car then loads of noise -knew Id had a blow out and so made
it to the side of the road and was pretty quickly recovered my some nice Highways Agency traffic officers - thankyou fellas, but you could have taken
your time - i only missed 45 mins of work....
A word of warning to those of you with lots of negative camber, check the insides of your tyres since mine were above the legal limit at the outer
edges and totally bald on the inside - which I guessed caused the blow-out.
Geoff
 
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jambojeef
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| posted on 24/11/06 at 05:45 PM |
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Another...
 
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fesycresy
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| posted on 24/11/06 at 05:58 PM |
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Below the legal limit 
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The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
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Guinness
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| posted on 24/11/06 at 06:00 PM |
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Wow, glad you're OK, could've been nasty.
That's a little more than a bit of camber. Time to get it laser aligned me thinks!
Heard about you on the local news this morning! Glad I was WFH.
Cheers
Mike
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jambojeef
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| posted on 24/11/06 at 06:38 PM |
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Yeah, you could be right - I ought to have to checked come to think of it.
Yeah I guess it could have been a lot worse - the way off the A1 into Morpeth has a pretty sharply banked section which would I have would have been
driving at some point during that journey - it doesnt really have friendly run off areas either!
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JoelP
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| posted on 24/11/06 at 06:44 PM |
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any trouble from plod about it?
I had a tyre go flat a while ago, tunned out it was down to the metal strips on the inside, legal on the outside. This was on a 406 that carried
excess weight so the back end was squashed. 
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jambojeef
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| posted on 24/11/06 at 06:53 PM |
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When I realised why it has gone pop, I wondered if the flange would have words but they werent actually there - the only guys in attendance were those
Highways Agency dudes, not the boys in blue.
They would have been totally justified in making a fuss of course!
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owelly
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| posted on 24/11/06 at 08:03 PM |
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Whats wrong with you folks? Get a patch on it............
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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MikeR
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| posted on 24/11/06 at 10:15 PM |
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Patch - pah, i'm sure that will polish out
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zetec7
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| posted on 25/11/06 at 03:53 AM |
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Some duct tape and shoe polish ought to do it...
http://www.freewebs.com/zetec7/
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