Ever have a tire explode while your filling it?

I'm getting paranoid in my old age. Every time I go to add air to my tires, I get this vision of the tire blowing up in my face. I know it's probly not gonna happen, especially since i'm at or below the max pressure. Paranoia is getting the best of me though. Even with new tires I'm like that. Older weather checked ones are even worse. I find myself filling them standing off to teh side So, just how paranoid am I? has anyone ever actuallu have a tire explode on them while they were filling it?

 

When I was a kid I was filling a bike tire and had it blow out on me. My ears rang for a while and I never did that again.

 

A guy that worked for me in the USAF had a deuce and a half truck tire blow up on him. Really messed him and another guy up. I mean real serious injuries. They were supposed to be using a "cage" but took the short cut. I think about it every time I'm airing up my motorhome tires. Have no knowledge of a car tire doing the same.

 

Friend of mine was waiting to do the air at a service (not) station. Person before him was letting the air in bigtime into his Lancruiser tyres when my friend said "You realise you're up to 60 pounds there." Answer was that this guys other car takes 32 psi and he didn't know what this one took but figured they're twice as big so he was going for 64!

 

you're not alone on that Bugman, i had the same fear while filling up the tires on my Ranger tonight.

i was at the go-kart racing class at Willow Springs many moons ago and one of the instructors was filling up a tire on one of the karts and it exploded on him. luckily it wasn't right in his face, he said he only put about 5 lbs in it.

 

Darwin Award potential.

 

I had a donut on my Jetta when I was 18, and it said 80lbs on the sidewall. I got up to around 60 and thought somebody shot me with a 12 gauge. Blew out the sidewall, and knocked me from squatting to on my back. No injurys, but my ears rang for the rest of the night.

 

Not yet, not even setting beads with brake cleaner and a match.

 

when i was in 4th grade my teacher mr. hoffman (think mr. wizard type science teacher) blew one up on the football field for us on purpose. he hooked up an electric pump and screwed it to the valve and turned it on when we were all safely away. talk about a loud fucking BOOM...that was some fun shit!

 

Not me, a place where I worked. Another guy was adding air to a 16.5" truck tire on the back of 1 ton chevy van, sitting in the 3" space between the tire and the wall. When that 10 ply tire let go at about 55psi he was pretty much knocked out cold and was deaf for a few days after that. He was luckily ok after that few days though.

 

had an old ring wheel come apart when i worked at a tire shop in the late 80s, ring side down, ring was burried in the pavement and the tire and wheel landed on the state store roof across the street. im real cautious on all of them now, especially the ground wwws on my buick

 

Not me, but an idiot at Vo-Tech decided he didn't have time to walk 50' to the tool room for an air chuck. He stuck the end of the house on the valve stem. The tire started filling up, he tried to remove the hose, but it was stuck. His buddy tried helping him remove it. The tire blew up and broke fingers on both of them.

They were working a few feet away from where the hose connected to the air system with a quick disconnect...

 

I feel the same way filling up my portable air tank. typically I am squatting over or kneeling on it. Not a good place for shrapnel..

When I worked at the local school bus yard, a driver parked her bus in its row, and while she was in between the buses, one tire let go. We felt the concussion through the ground over 500 feet away, and the boom (120 psi) was really loud.

That almost killed the poor lady. She was severely messed up. Permanently deaf with brain damage.

 

My son was airing up an old tire to move his Hudson around in the backyard and had just turned away when it BLEW up. I was in the house and heard the boom. Went out back and he was as white as a ghost! Neighbors four houses were outside trying to find out what happened. He was just shook up.

 

Me too!

 

I've seen some real gnarly Air Force training pics of aircraft tires and whats left of the maintainers after they exploded...always used a cage after that

 

I worked at a Goodyear store in SLC Utah in the 60s.
A guy brought on old city bus he had just bought at auction in for a flat repair on an outside rear dual. The tire man had it jacked up & spun off the lugs when he was called to the phone. As he walked away, the inside dual blew out because the inside rim was rusty & rotted so bad the only thing keeping the lock ring on was the pressure of the outside tire . The Outside tire went clear across the 4 lane street & thru a brick wall of a store -- the bus was blown about 8 feet sideways off the jack. My tire guy was so shook up by the near death experience I sent him home .
I had always had a hard time getting them to use a cage to inflate truck tires ---not after THAT!!

 

One of the guys I used to work with changed a tire and was putting air into it to seat the bead. He thought he had about 50 lbs in it when it blew. It went straight up in the air and broke a light fixture. He was lucky, just broke his arm. I'm very careful whenever I do that.

 

I had a four wheeler tire blow up in my face. Damn near pissed myself

 

just last summer I was at out local gas station...
I was pumping gas watching this dude fill his flat tire,
He kept filling
and filling
and filling
and BOOOOOOOM... blew the tire right off the rim-
It was on a white caprice just like your old cop car bugman-=
It was so loud I felt it-
the dude filling the tire was ok just had this half puzzled/ half scared to death look on his face... all I wanted to do was bust out laughing... I've never seen that happen untill then but always wondered what it would sound like... and its LOUD-

 

Okay so I'm not the only one who is paranoid. My wife's truck has 17s and the front tires max pressure is 44 psi. The rears are in the 50 psi range. The tires are on aluminum rims so I stand to the side when airing them up. Not the same thing but a spray paint can got in my burn barrel. It moved the 55 gallon barrel over by a couple of inches. And a neighbor down the street heard it and came to my house to see if I was still alive.

 

Had one on my semi blow when I had it parked in the drive between mine and the neighbors house.
My son was airing the tires and one let go at about 105 psi, busted a couple windows on my house and one on the neighbors.

 

When I was much younger had a flat on my 59 mercury.I knew the owner of a gas ststion so I changed my own tire.Aired it and it sealed ok.Ok
i want 32 psi in it put in air gage it put more air in gage itgoing up slowley? putting more air in it BOOM im lucky to be able to father kids as I was bent over the tire.The blast of air hit the owner in the chest ripping a L shaped hole in his shirt and red mark on his chest.Knocked him silly and scared the crap out of me.He through that dam gage away.I think about it everytime I air one.I dont trust the cheap gages I use my own dial type and dont always trust it.

 

I had one on a car trailer blow after I loaded a car on the trailer and discovered a low tire and tried to air it up. Luckily blew out on the inside, but scared the hell out of me!

 

had something similar happen to me last year when i was using some primer on the car, i set the can down too hard and it blew the bottom off the can, coated me from head to toe in paint (literally looked like i jumped in a tar pit) and then it proceeded to punch a hole through my garage door really lucky it didnt hit me in the face. i was standing there shell shocked and my neighbor came out with a horrified look on his face and said it felt like his house jumped the foundation, looking back i can laugh at it but it really was a close call. "contents under pressure" I have learned to really respect that warning

 

I thiink about it when filling , but am only really concerned when I am filling up the maypop specials on some old wreck to move it to somewhere else in the shop.

had one blow about an hour after I filled it, that's about it.

it's the big rig tires that'll kill ya. 120 psi in a huge tire like that... not a good thing to be around

 

holy fucking hell man...that's some crazy ass shit! love the pic with the story




f1james-i had a similar thing once with one of those cheap air gauges...60psi in some cheap ass mowhawk tires, noticed when one of them got a bulge in the sidewall so i checked the psi with a new gauge and promptly bought new tires.

 

I had a maypop special blow up here in my private junk yard.

It was bolted to a front axle so I could roll it around when I needed to.


I didn't hear it or see it go off. I just found the damage later. It blew a hole in the top of the tire across the tread. Also about a foot of tread blew off in a flap.

I don't know how much pressure it had in it, but I'd guess not much. Whenever I fill a junk tire here, I put just enough in it to make it roll pretty good. I suppose it just sat there in the sun and popped.


I don't really worry about it though. Chances are that its NOT going to happen.

I've messed with hundreds of junk tires and that one is the only one I've ever seen do that....and it was ROTTEN...I'm suprised it held air.

 

I had some crusty old tyres on my 36. They did hold air but had gone flat. I needed to move the car so I filled them up. Shortly after...BOOM. I wasn't right near the tyre but was still in the shed. My wife came ruuning out of the house thinking I had killed myself with the O/A. The house was 100 yards from the shed. Made a huge dust cloud roll out of the shed.

On another topic. Drive shafts in car fires. They're always good for a laugh...especially with rookies.

 

Maybe you feel that way from doing your whitewall sanding tech grinding all that rubber away...lol I love that vid.