Tyre blow-out

New video added to the Africa videos ‘library’ of our first tyre blow-out. Click on the link to see: Cuthbert’s First Blow-out

Click here to see the full blog story at ‘Blow-out‘

For more on Cuthbert’s Michelin XZL tyres and wheels generally, why we chose them, and a video demonstration on changing a tubeless tyre, click on the link to Tyres and Wheels

Update 27 Jan 2019

We have quite a lot more experience with these tyres now.  I think that the blow-out described above could have been caused by not installing the tyre plug correctly.  I think that when I installed the tyre plug to stop the puncture, the plug may not have gone through the whole tyre thickness.  I think that possibly the plug tool hit the steel mat under the tread and moved sideways.  This would have sealed the hole in the outer tyre, but not the hole in the inner section of the tyre.  As a result, the air escaped from the inside of the tyre and ‘inflated’, thereby delaminating the tyre between the steel mat and the tread. This probably led to the catastrophic failure.  I no longer use tyre plugs on these tyres, instead I remove the tyre and fit a patch or mushroom plug from the inside.

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