It’s interesting that the subject of tyre condition should be raised. A week-and-a-bit ago, one of the rear tyers on my GT40 self destructed while traveling along at 100km/h. I felt a short vibration and then a BANG! I was fighting to keep it in a straight line. On inspection, I discovered that the tread and tyre-wall had totally separated. (Not obvious in the pic, but it is all the way around). The tyre dealer is insisting that I had run the tyre totally flat for about twenty kilometers, which is almost laughable.
Has anybody else ever experienced such a failure?
PS. Although I am not dismissing out of hand that I may have had a half-flat tyer, I can say that fifteen minutes earlier I had six observers looking over the car and no one made any mention of a flat tyre. Sixty seconds before the actual event, I had taken a long sweeping corner and the car was as steady as ever.
PPS. On Norman’s original topic, I had bought the tyres 3 months before my expected completion date. As always, the last 3 months of any build always takes 12 months /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif so the tyers were a year old before they had been used on the road (making them 19 months old now)