Parking tyre half-on kerb

[mikehammer69]

A few times recently ive been half on the kerb with the tyres

Shortly after I had a flat and needed replacement tyre

I know the guy and it must have needed a new one but would the parking have caused it. I forgot to ask him at the time. Thanks IA

 

[Mottie]

No. Just coincidence.

 

[Diver Fred]

I think it depends on how you are driving onto the kerb. If you are driving onto the kerb at a low angle you could be knocking the bead off of the rim.

 

[Mottie]

I think it depends on how you are driving onto the kerb. If you are driving onto the kerb at a low angle you could be knocking the bead off of the rim.

If you did that, it would immediately deflate. More likely to put a hole in the sidewall than knock the bead off.

 

[Dunnomate]

Ex MOT tester here. Kerbing can create a weakness in the sidewall or the treaded circumference, after momentarily trapping it between the concrete kerb & rim. A tester spins tyres while the vehicle is up on the jack, & I failed many due to bulges, which can lead to blowouts. Also failed badly damaged rims, mainly alloys due to kerbing. I think around a 100 people a year in the UK die due to rear blowouts. At speed, a car/van can swap ends faster than a blink of an eye.....although a mate had a rear blowout in his Focus ST, the object went straight through the tyre & rim. Looks like it`s had a .303 bullet through it. I have the rim & photos. He said the car hardly twitched at 60mph. Depends on tyre profiles & ply + not cornering at the time.
Ben Collins was paranoid being driven by Misha Charoudin, re possibility of knocking a tyre off the rim at the Nürburgring Green Hell....& they`re proper low radiused racetrack kerbs, not high Council kerbs, obvs.

 

[Mottie]

Only time I’ve ever worried about a blowout was when I was going as fast as I’d ever been - 144mph - on a fully laden motorbike. I remember thinking, 'if I get a blowout now, I’m dead'. As it happened, I started to get a death wobble on the handlebars so my bum'ole told me to back it off a bit!

 

[mikehammer69]

This would be reversing slowly onto a footpath and passenger-side tyres half resting on footpath.

The car is actually parked on the footpath which happens to be the end of a footpath outside my house and not interfering with walkers

I thought "kerbing" was a separate matter involving friction of sidewall and rim against kerb which is not happening here

 

[Dunnomate]

This would be reversing slowly onto a footpath and outside tyres half resting on footpath.

The car is actually parked on the footpath which happens to be the end of a footpath outside my house and not interfering with walkers

I thought "kerbing" was a separate matter involving friction of sidewall and rim against kerb which is not happening here

Yeah that as well. I call any interaction with a kerb, kerbing....although I understand "dogging" might not be taking Ralph for an after-dinner walk

 

[Dunnomate]

Only time I’ve ever worried about a blowout was when I was going as fast as I’d ever been - 144mph - on a fully laden motorbike. I remember thinking, 'if I get a blowout now, I’m dead'. As it happened, I started to get a death wobble on the handlebars so my bum'ole told me to back it off a bit!

I was sat with a mate in The Dam, quaffing Amstel Bier, keeping an eye on my 1976 Proddy racer LeMans parked by the canal when I noticed a rat under the fat(for those days), Pirelli Phantom rear tyre. Then I noticed the rear was as flat as a pancake. Called out the equivalent of the AA. One member turned up in his Renault 4 van, closely followed by his mate in another R4, who deliberately nudged the back of his mate`s van, which immediately rolled forward, with the driver of that van running to jump in & secure it.....which his mate clearly knew he usually didn`t. Holland being flat & all that. They were both laughing, clearly stoned. They inflated the tyre after adding some green slime. They wouldn`t take a Gulden. "Will that keep pressure" I asked. "Only if you keep it at above 30mph", came the reply. 2-up trip to Hoorn & back, trying not to get distracted by the lights of Rotterdam on the right at 135mph in the wet & dark.
Two rear blowouts on my BSA Bantam at an indicated 70mph a few years previously....until I found that whoever bolted the rear mudguard on, used a very long bolt that was interacting with the rear tyre. Similar to the bolt MS used to attach a camera to his ski helmet.