Never had this happen

This was on the 56 I bought. They were good and round when I parked it there. Guess it’s kinda like ran when parked.

The tread has RUNNOFT.

 

Looks tired.

 

looks like an old tire with plenty of tread but, no life left

 

See that a lot
Cars sit and radials deteriorate and pop
Tire probably committed suicide cause of the wheel

 

How out is it out there? I’m in Memphis and we are miserable hot here

I have had radials pop like that but it was during the summer and they were WELL past the expiration date

 

Did you slip a new ride in on us?
Just be thankful you were not doing 80 when it happens, you still have a fender & a truck. HRP

 

Better it happened while parked then in 70 mph bumper to bumper traffic. Is that a BF Goodrich TA? They are usually very good.
Dan

 

I’ve got 3 old radials that was on the wife’s 56. They are around 12 years old. Falling apart. Can’t hold air.
There’s one bias ply from the early 70s. Still holding air.
Had a very low mile m38a1 jeep with NDTs dated 1962. Still held air and looked decent.

 

Been a lot of years back,but yup,I had that happen.
I had stoped n picked up lunch for both,,at a buddys shop,got there,parked my wagon in about were it had been parked n number of times {right side of car to the sun { not that it may of had any thing to do }
We're inside having our subs. BANG n big cloud dust out side=can't even see my wagon for about a min.
Right rear tire=looked like your pic in OP. { yes,it was a Firestone 500 tire,with more then 1/2 the tread;crap}
I have no real idea why ???? Put spare on.

 

These are not roadworthy. They were just on the truck when I drug it home. Flats don’t surprise me, the level of destruction was what caught me off guard. This tire is probably 25 years old.

Sorry Mark, didn’t even remember the ugly wheel.

 

We see lots of trailer tires like that. Good tread, but the tire life is just plain timed out.

 

I had one do that laying on it's side in the garage. They get to be that old, you don't even want air pressure in them.

 

I've come to expect that from the old tires used as rollers. Just a matter of Time, esp since most sit on sand or the ground anyways. Even sitting on wood, brick, or concrete doesn't seem to slow it down all that much. & the newer the tire, the faster it happens. Although old trailer tires do last longer. PITA, but at least get some more use outta them before throwaway.
Marcus...

 

Anthony is right, the tire killed itself..

 

I've got a set of BF Goodrich I bought from the Super Shops in probably 1988 or so. I use them for mock up on all of my 35-36 pickups, since my go to is a 235-70/15 on the rear. I am shooting for a world record.

 

I’m going with suicide because of the wheel as well.

But, I have also had one do that just laying in the bed of a pickup.

Radial tires are crap anymore.

 

BFG T/A's must be prone to this. All 4 new never rolled more than 50 feet BFG T/A's on my dad's Ranchero blossomed and let the air out due to sitting indoors, and they were only 5 years old. One night when I was in the garage and one of them let go, and I thought there was a creature under the car from the weird sound it made before the air spewed out. All 4 BFG T/A's on my old '56 F-100 chassis did the splits from sitting outdoors as well, but those were old tires. Meanwhile I've got a set of slot mags with Uniroyal Tiger Paws from the 80's that have 1980's air in them and have never seen the inside of a garage and I'd bet they'd handle a road trip across Texas. Weird.

 

Those Tiger Paws are not steel belted radials, are they?

 

I’ve never seen that from a tire that was parked.