Weird tire failure

[Beat Army]

No obvious puncture. Fully inflated. Maybe 34k in em. Plenty of tread. 3 years old. Looks like the sidewall just gave up. Just going down the street.

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[Bandit’s Lair]

Were they aired down over a long period of time? That’s a weird wrinkle right there at the sidewall treadblock.

 

[Beat Army]

Never aired down.

 

[WambliSka]

I’m stumped! I’ve never seen anything like that before. Damn!!! And on the inside sidewall, glad you caught it before it became catastrophic

 

[Beat Army]

I didn’t catch it. It failed catastrophically…luckily I was only going 30 and in town, so the only casualty was the tire. I pulled over immediately and put on the spare.

 

[Bandit’s Lair]

I’ve seen similiar damage on a dry rotted tire before but there’s stuff going on on the entire tire right there. I’ve never seen one “wrinkle” laterally like that on the sidewall. Do you have any further pictures? I’d be looking for “DOT ####” I see the place of manufacture on there but don’t see the date of manufacture. First 2 digits tell the week and second 2 tell the year of manufacture. You may have had them on the vehicle for 3 years, but how long did the shop have them on the shelf?

 

[DylanM]

Good chance you ran over something in the road that you didn't see... happened to me several years ago with a tire less than a month old. In my case I found the offending piece of metal after walking back a hundred yards or so.

 

[Beat Army]

 

[Beat Army]

So were my tires manufactured in 2016?

 

[Bandit’s Lair]

Nope. April 2023. I dunno. That’s just a weird occurrence I guess. At least now you have justification to get some new shoes!! “But Honey!!!! If that tire failed what’s to say the other ones won’t fail too!!!”

 

[Beat Army]

Wait…I had it backwards…2023…so not old. I had them installed in 2024.

 

[Beat Army]

Too many miles on em to just replace 1.

 

[azmojave]

You must have hit something, you can see a point of impact. Bummer.

 

[md2k]

The wrinkle is likely from driving on it flat.

 

[Freems]

Internal sidewall separation after impact?

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