Kestas
Staff member
I had a slash like that, but even worse, and drove from FL to MI with it before replacing. The sidewall, though, condemns the tire in my opinion.
Absolutely no. I had a bulge way smaller than that and it made me very uneasy. Discount Tire confirmed that it was from a belt that shifted upon impact.Could this tire be patched? Maybe if it where not for the bulging sidewalls. Is the bulge from being run flat?
Wife hit something on the interstate she did not see anything. The tires are michelin defenders with 40k miles on them looking for advice on a new set of tires for a CRV in VA all seasons it seems michelin defenders are no more and now are michelin defenders 2. Usually buy from Costco.
It is kinda my fault for being cheap and never fixing the TPMS as it is always on. It is one of the older ones that don't show PSI.
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I'm guessing that tread cut and the sidewall bulge are in close proximity to each other. If so, then the cut caused a belt edge separation, which is what the bulge is. It was not caused by running the tire flat!
Are you sure your wife hit something? Perhaps she just said that as in: "I don't know, honey, maybe I hit something, but I didn't see anything!".
The reason I ask is that the cut seems to have cracks at the end of the cut and that would have taken quite a while to develop. Plus, the bulge would be best explained if the cut had been there quite a while.
And was the tire actually run flat? It doesn't show any evidence of it.