I ride rubberbands.... literaly...

[Bimmerteck]

people who blow tires from stretching usually ALWAYS have an inflation problem.

sideway heats up past op temp, wears out the chords on the inside of the sidewall and then catastrophic failure like seen above. Glad the car and you brother are alright.

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Inflation is key and underinflated tires will fail in the manner shown. When was the last time you checked the tires air pressure? I check mine and the wife's weekly because of how many tires I've see fail b/c of under inflation.

[da_force]

That's crap...

Great no one got hurt... not even the LM

In this matter... would you say 205/40 on 8.5 is aggressive or ok?

[NELSON09]

Damn dude, glad you didn't get hurt and wheel didn't get completely trashed. Mother F@ck Falkens, I had 452s and about 3,000 miles into them they got real LOUD, so loud I could feel them...thwop, thwop, thwoup, wahbba, wahbba, wahbba, F@ck those. Glad you're ok man.

[loneStar22]

as NOTHING to do with the fact that they are falkens, falkens are actually great tires for stretching and hold up well. this happens when the tire is under inflated like everyone is saying. i stretch tires at a tire shop in dallas for a living and ive never had a problem with falkens doing this when heavily stretched.

[aar0n.]

As other have stated, this is a tire inflation problem, not a tire manufacture problem.

Seriously, this has NOTHING to do with the fact that it was a Falken tire. Underinflated tires that are stretched can unbead/fail/etc. Keeping the tire pressures in check is extremely important with stretched tires. I'm much happier with my Falken 512s than I was with my Toyo T1Rs as an everyday tire

Spreading misinformation about stretched tires really bothers me. People automatically assume that a stretched tire is less safe and more prone to failure than a non-stretched one but it's not so simple

Edit: I run between 35 and 40psi in all of my tires

[Harry]

What should the tire pressure be on a stretched tire? Would you put more/less air than you would a normal tire?

[WhiteStripes]

Yikes. That's scary. Lol I had no idea you had a 46...

[eric@canibeat]

not really surprised. Working at sears, we always have problems with selling falkens on newer bmw's, audi's, mercedes, etc etc etc.

[ginger_snaps]

kuhmo exsta's !!! lol there really piles of shit but you cant beat $75 a tire

<-------- cheap college kid

[Vandit]

As other have stated, this is a tire inflation problem, not a tire manufacture problem.

I've seen the same type of failure happen to a totally OEM Bridgestone Potenza RE070 setup on a Subaru STi.

[EMU]

another Falken horror story.....fuck that brand for life!

[Stolzy]

ouch....id recomend toyo proxes....never had trouble with mine

[southpaw]

Wut.

[simmykwan]

woww that looks insane. one of my big fears is for something like that to happen to me. glad you bro is okay

[Jay Z.]

Lets be real here...

Your brother had to have been driving on a flat for a while for the tire to come apart like that. A good tire will stay beaded even though its out of air. It looks like your brother drove on the flat long enough for the wheels to cut the side walls off.

I run stretched FK452s on the street and RT615s on the track. I've never had an issue that was caused by the tires. I think its safe to say I'm a little harder on tires too.


That being said, no matter what tires are on your car keep a close eye on your tire pressure.

Agreed, I had a similar problem last summer because the tires were not inflated properly. And I had fk452's stretched.