Parker Gen

That's too bad what happened there bud. It would've been better off it if didn't cause all that damage huh.

strongsail

I feel your pain.

Years ago I towed an Airstream trailer. It had 6-ply bias tube-type tires, and I ran 60lbs in them. I had a flat on the trailer in a park in San Jose, and I took the wheel off and took it to a service station to get it fixed. The kid came back in about 5 minutes and said, "Here's your tire, all fixed." I asked him, "How did you pull the tube, patch it and get it all back together in 5 minutes?" He gave me a deer-in-the-headlights look and said, "Oh, it has a tube? I just put a plug in it."

I didn't feel like teaching the kid how to tell a tube-type tire by the valve stem. I just said, "Well, yeah, it has a tube. Maybe you better start over."

About a week and 500 miles later, on I-10 east of San Diego, that tire lost all its tread at about 60 mph. The tire itself didn't go flat, it just shed all the tread in big slabs. I started hearing something like thunder, looked in the right side mirror, and watched as the flailing tread ripped the **** out of the side of the trailer. Tore out the rocker panel behind the wheel, busted out the fiberglass fender liner, popped off the fender trim. What a mess.

I figured that the kid had blown a bubble between the casing and the tread when he plugged the tire and aired up the leaky tube. I wanted to throttle him, but by then we were too far away.

I bought a new tire, cut away all the shredded aluminum, and it took me a month to get the sheet metal, rivets and tools to do the repair. This all happened in the middle of a long road trip with that old Airstream.

IronCobra

This is my story of YOUR tire:

I was only R or H rated NOT ZR rated
I was too low on air
I am getting a bit old
I might have had some feathering or uneven wear.



Glad you're ok though.

Scoupe3

Glad you came through without a scratch
Are you going to stick with Yokos?

CStrike - Cool sig did u make it urself?

CStrikeSC

Thanks, actually I found it somewhere, if you look closely, its 2 subs with the L logo etched in plexy.
Mitsuguy, the only reason I heard about that crash was because I drove past it on 15 about 1 mile from moapa heading towards Mesquite. Body bags and everything, life ends quick sometimes.

IS_Sunny

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Sometime last month a made a post on my old account. It had to do with my left rear tire blowing on the highway at 85MPH.

The pics speak for themselves: Major rubber everywhere, paint / clear coat damage galore, badly bent fender, missing quarter panel extension




I'm posting some updated pictures of my progress. I don't have too much money to work with right now, and here is my progress thus far.
- Heavy degreaser to remove tons of melted rubber and scuffs, new tire, pounded in bottom quarter panel, new quarter panel extension body piece from another 95 sc300. I know it doesn't look great, but I think it is an improvement. All DIY, and only spend $55 plus the cost of tire.



Still need to get the rust out, and fix this paint!






Just as soon as I win the lottery, ill have it all sanded painted cleared, and rolled out.

Lemme know what you think!

mkorsu

Not bad so far.

I remember this original post.....what was your old screenname?

ProjectLex

Definite improvement. Props on making a drastic improvement with such little bit of $ put in.

Being broke spurs creativity!

Keep us updated.

IS_Sunny

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Thanks guys!

I did feel OK with the way it came out, considering it cost so little thus far. Although I imagine the paint will be the expensive part. Anyone have any ideas, thoughts, tips, anything that may help me get this thing looking good again?

That bottom quarter panel was literally bent almost all the way up. We took a wooden rod, cut it down to about 1 foot long. Removed all of the carpeting and stuff from the trunk, so that we were right at the folded metal. Then put a mousepad on the metal to absorb the shock and prevent big dings.... then just hit the heck out of the rod with a hammer. It literally bent out about 35 degrees, with no paint damage that wasn't already there, although it up close it is not very smooth like it was stock. That's what I get for ballin' on a budget

The account I used before was Gateway78 ... I couldn't remember my old 4 year CL account pass, so I made that one, realized I hated the name, and made this one.

DaveGS4

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Tommy, I'm sorry you can only have one account. I'll merge the old one into this new one.

Chenzo26

Good work on that beast Tom. I will bring that touch up paint when I come down there. I still havent gotten my GS4 back as of yet - its been 5 weeks...I might as well just go buy another. :/ Let me know of any progress on the car flipping project - I might be looking at another one today. '98 ford escort with 135k miles in working condition (so the guy says) for $800. The dude says the AC works great and engine and transmission are great, so there isn't much to fix up there. I'm gonna end up spending about $800 total on the '95 Altima I bought a week ago - and hopefully the A/C will work after I am done with it today. Anyway, great job on the SC - that thing is a champ.

IS_Sunny

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Its so old school, lol