Mike Melton examines a trailer tire that blew out after running low on air pressure following a nail puncture. Heat rings and a missing cap show the sidewall made contact with the road, overheated, and failed. Any tire with this damage should come off immediately.
If you ever want to know what a tire is made out of, here's your steel belt right here, right there. So when tires blow out like this, they can be very dangerous. So what happened to this tire right here? The whole cap of the tire itself came off. So I can guarantee you this is an old tire. So let me, let me check the manufacturer date. So this one here was manufactured in 2021. So the reason why this one blew out, all right, it's not the age of the tire, So what happened here is he ran this thing low in air pressure, so he probably got a nail in it, wasn't paying attention. This is a trailer tire. And so what happened is as he's riding down the road, he's riding on the sidewall, heats the tire up. And then what happens next? You know, the tire blows out, the whole damn cap comes off. So that's exactly what happened to this tire right here. You can see all the sidewall marks on it where he's been riding it low, low in air pressure. So what they call that, they call that a little bit of heat ring. So when you get a heat ring in your tire, take that son of a gun off because you're going to either tear your car up or you're going to hurt somebody.
