I've never seen nor heard of this before....the other evening my wife was driving home on the last few miles to our house and came upon five or six other vehicles trailing a very slow moving tractor-trailer that was bellowing smoke from the RR trailer wheels. She couldn't tell if the brakes were locked or simply dragging flats along. She also noticed dual tire tracks on the roadway that were apparently made by the TT.
The next day we went to get the X out of the garage and I noticed both RS tires were covered in popcorn gravel similar to what we use at the top of our driveway. Closer inspection shows the tread is completely filled in by, apparently, molten rubber that has vulcanized itself to our tires. I used a screwdriver to poke/dig at it a bit and it is definitely bonded to the tires.
We contacted our insurance who initially denied responsibility for road hazards to tires but due to the unusual circumstances have agreed to fully inspect the car for paint/whatever damage and maybe pro-rate the tires since balance is way off now. This occurred to our X 35d.
I just thought I'd share since I've never seen something like this before. The dual tire marks are almost 4 miles long before he turned north and it amazes me the tires liquified rather than catching fire. It was a box trailer and not a tanker hauling liquid asphalt or anything like that and she said the smoke was definitely from the tires/wheels and not something dripping out that she could tell. Weird huh?
The next day we went to get the X out of the garage and I noticed both RS tires were covered in popcorn gravel similar to what we use at the top of our driveway. Closer inspection shows the tread is completely filled in by, apparently, molten rubber that has vulcanized itself to our tires. I used a screwdriver to poke/dig at it a bit and it is definitely bonded to the tires.
We contacted our insurance who initially denied responsibility for road hazards to tires but due to the unusual circumstances have agreed to fully inspect the car for paint/whatever damage and maybe pro-rate the tires since balance is way off now. This occurred to our X 35d.
I just thought I'd share since I've never seen something like this before. The dual tire marks are almost 4 miles long before he turned north and it amazes me the tires liquified rather than catching fire. It was a box trailer and not a tanker hauling liquid asphalt or anything like that and she said the smoke was definitely from the tires/wheels and not something dripping out that she could tell. Weird huh?
