Putting snows on a little early....

Dreadpiratepikle

Dreadpiratepikle

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So last night I was heading into Leeds to drop my roommate off at his mechanic to pick up his truck, and as I was turning off of rt 4, my right rear tire started shaking. I pulled over and discovered a flat tire. The rubber was almost too hot to touch so I didn't try and investigate the cause of the flat just then. I got out my portable compressor to see if the tire would hold any pressure so I could limp to a gas station. After about 5 minutes the compressor wasn't getting anywhere, but the tire had cooled down enough that I started to run my hand around the tire, trying to find the cause. I discovered this:

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It was on the backside of the tire, so I didn't see it until I got the tire off. These are brand new Direzza Sport Z1 Starspec, with less than 6k on them. Anyone had this problem with these tires before? I'm going to email tirerack.com to see if they will replace it for me. Should I try and get two tires, so I can put two brand new ones on, instead of only one? I've heard that its a bad idea to only put one new tire on, because of uneven ware. Thoughts?
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I got home with the spare, and put my unstudded snows on this morning, with my beat to @*%# stock rims.
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did you get the road hazard coverage? if not try anyway, they MAY help you. Tire Rack sold me PZero Nero replacement tires at a discount even tho I din't have the covverage

do you remember hitting anything, did you find anything else that might have caused puncture, then tire shredded from being run flat (most likely scenario)

 
I've seen that before when you run on a flat or extremely low pressured tire for too long.... how often do you check your tire pressure?

 
has your tire been run on flat before it went flat? running on it flat for a while chews up the inside and the sidewalls usually become weak cuz of less rubber and just airing it up thinking nothing was wrong and driving on it could possibly do that unless you had it repaired before and somehow failed now then who ever repaired it should have suggested you a new tire

 
again, did you check the tire thoroughly for evidence of puncture? sliver of metal, nail, indian arrowhead, alien interference, etc?

this is probably easiest to do once wrecked tire is demounted.

 
I've been running snows all summer. and fall. Saving my summer tires for a real summer. Some day it will happen.

 
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I just had a blowout on one of my Direzza Sport Z1 Star Specs the other day. They only had about 5,000 miles on them.
 
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