I have recenyly experienced a 10mm diameter hole blown through the centre of the tread pattern of 205 x 16" V rated tyre with less than 3000 miles use.
I thought these tyres were supposed to be re-inforced beneath the tread with either steel wire or rayon to prevent this sort of thing happening and wondered if anybody else had experieced a similar problem with these tyres.
After driving on Michelins for many thousands of miles without problems, it has not exactly increased my confidence in Pirelli!!
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A most unfortunate experience. Tyres these days are much more resilient than they used to be.
What kind of warrenty were you given with the new tyre? I would go back to the supplier and ask for it to be replaced under the manufacturers warrenty. They should then return the tyre to Pirelli who will be able to inspect the tyre to try and find the cause. Alternatively contact Pirelli directly.
Could be you hit something in the road, or maybe had been carrying a nail in the tyre for some time. Whatever the cause, you'll just have to chalk it up to experience.
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In my last 40 years of driving,I have had a total of four sidewall failures-one was a remould-the other three were all Pirelli.
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I have P6000 205/55 16's on my SEAT Leon, and touch wood, no problems in 44k miles...... How ever I did have a blow out on new Yokahama A520's in France on the way home from Spain in my Primera GT a few years ago at 130mph on the rear, and it took a French Xantia Driver to catch me to let me know....By the time I'd stopped 2 miles drown the autoroute the tyre has bits of wire coming out of it, and was real hot. It wasn't till myself and my 2 cousins unloaded all the camping gear from the boot and changed the wheel that I realised what had happened. I was suffering from a cold, and after hearing a BANG I turned and said "what was that", having a cold my hearing wasn't too good and didn't hear the reply of, "looked like you hit an old engine mount".
Either way, it showed up just how stable the Nissan Primera is!!!!
Neil T
SEAT Leon TDi 150
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