quote:Originally posted by Tom@Seal Beach:
Charles....that's amazing. Did the Pirelli's have a steel belt? With the advent of steel belt tires it seems like they are almost bullet proof. I hit stuff in the road all the time .... never a failure in the steel belt....but numerous failures in side walls. Of course I can't say I've been driving on 10+ year old tires.
Matter of fact, three months ago, my son fell asleep while driving, of course as the road curved to the left (thank god it didn't curve to the right or he'd gone into oncoming traffic) he took out 125 of chain link fence and bent over 8 steel posts set in concrete...he bent three wheels but no damage to the tires! Go figure...I thought for sure one of the tires would have been damaged...but nothing.
I'm not smart enough to tell you how the tires were built. They were Pirelli P7Rs. But I CAN guarantee that they split right between the tread. It just dried up and opened up down the middle