Tire tread seperation

[scouthead]

6 year old bfg all terrain ko... It has been used.

It let go friday night at 70mph. Flat tire. Didnt have spare with me so i called AAA for tow. No prob.

 

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What i didnt catch fast enough... In the that second pic i just posted? The flapping tire rubber shoved my tailpipe up into the body...

 

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Cruising down highway on a couple new tires- started stinkin in the cab... Plasticy wirey smokeyness...

 

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The tailpipe was about 4 inches from the driverside tailight... All the hot gas was shooting right into the area where the plastic lamp assembly is. It melted everything.

 

[76k5blazerr]

I had that same thing happen to me in my 79 blazer, on the way home after i bought it except for the entire tread came off the tire, not just a portion. Funny thing was the tire still had air in it, it didn't pop, just lost all the tread. When the tread came off it wrapped around the axle and locked up my e brake. It was rolling on some probably 20 year old mud tires.

 

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Aaaaaaand once all the molten plastic and wire fused together- wires shorted and burned... Fuses popped, but not fast enough, or maybe too many circuits fused together, but i found overheated and discolored wires at the firewall junction where the inside and outside harnesses come together.
Black plastic or some type of grease oozed out of several of the pin/wire holes.
After removing the driver side tailight harness, and replacing a few fuses, i now have running lights (light) on the pass rear again. The headlights still work...
-no brake lights
-no hazard lights
- no turn signals
- no hi beam indicator on gauge cluster

Im not looking forward to tracing everything and figuring this out. Seems esxcessive for tire damage!

 

[scouthead]

I had that same thing happen to me in my 79 blazer, on the way home after i bought it except for the entire tread came off the tire, not just a portion. Funny thing was the tire still had air in it, it didn't pop, just lost all the tread. When the tread came off it wrapped around the axle and locked up my e brake. It was rolling on some probably 20 year old mud tires.

Ooof! Hadnt thought about that- probably a blessing my driver side ebrake cable on the axle broke a few months ago- there was no cable back there to get pinched or pulled on- that would not have been fun at 70 mph

 

[GWeakland620]

Wow dude, that sucks big time. I've never heard of something so complicated and complex happen from a tire blowing.