Question: Toyo Proxes failure

[Drholliday]

Had one of my toyo's fail yesterday morning. I drove home New Years Eve and all was fine, woke up New Years Day and the tire was completely flat and I found this (see pics). This tire has been on the rear axle for the last 8,000 miles so it doesn't make sense to me. Anyone know what could cause this?

 

[05_LLY]

Id say a broken belt would cause that, these toyos are just about maxed out or our trucks when there empty so something little can cause a failure, hitting a curb, pothole, towing/ hauling heavy with them, ect...

 

[eds04max]

That is bizzarre Chris!! I hate to hear that. Call me if you need anything.........I might can get it warrenteed???
Have you replaced it yet??

 

[Drholliday]

That is bizzarre Chris!! I hate to hear that. Call me if you need anything.........I might can get it warrenteed???
Have you replaced it yet??

No worries Ed, I just put a new set of 285's on it. I still have the 3 good toyo's and had the tire shop scrap the bad one. Really no point in trying to warranty the tire b/c they prorate the wear on the tire and it was getting pretty close to the wear bars, I put almost 15,000 miles on those tires after getting them from ya. I plan on getting another toyo to replace the bad one when I get back from Iraq to race on.

 

[McRat]

Yeah, that tire formed a bubble and the bubble ground itself flat.

You were lucky. Often when tires do that they explode instead.