Car transporter tyre blow out

If the O/S/F has gone boom, we need TNCSI and CF to explain how the wagon veers to the right.

Physics???

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Weight transfer, which direction the driver turns the steering wheel or he didn’t have no time to react?

I would of thought the wheel hub of the blown tyre would act as a pivot like turning a wheelchair. Or if it was still turning at the same rate as the fns then the different diameters would make it go to the right.

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It’s all happened so quick.

It will at 50+ mph

That’ll buff out.

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A bit of Duck tape or Gaffer tape should suffice.

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I feel very lucky then, 2 weeks ago when I was heading up the autoroute towards Chateauroux, because a tyre exploded on an artic powder tanker just as I began to overtake it.

I heard the explosion and in the instant I could see nothing but a brown cloud with lots of little black fragments blotting the view from my windscreen.
I continued straight and was immediately clear and saw the wagon pulling onto the shoulder, which was very narrow. I did the same several hundred metres further on where it widened a bit next to a phone.

Took a few minutes to recover from the shock and, in a brief moment when nothing was passing got out and ran round the front checking for damage with one eye on the passing traffic.

But it wasn’t over. I restarted along the shoulder and, when up to speed signalled left to rejoin but continued straight. It was very busy but then a wagon flashed me and began his move to the next lane to allow me out. By this time I was almost at his speed but allowed him to complete his pass of me and moved to the left. As I flashed him back in I saw in my mirror another wagon moving over behind me but he was flashing angrily and blowing his horn, so I let him pass and flashed him back in, no thank you this time and when I passed him later, more hornblowing and rude handsigns. 2 sides of the courtesy and otherwise on the roads today.

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I responded to a transporter that had done the same thing, depositing 7 high end Range Rovers across all lanes shutting the motorway!

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Looks to me like the brake lights come on instantly.

The blown side will have more drag than the inflated wheel which continues to run freely.
Like hitting a deep puddle on one side only. Haven’t we all felt the steering pull in that situation?
Apart from the lack of a tyre there might also be debris dragging on the blown side and even ripping brake lines off and jamming brakes on.

Also with a high load the drop on that side is chucking the vehicle over at a nasty angle.

Transporters are not the most stable of vehicles to start with. Higher and longer than many other trucks.
If @juddian were still around he would say more than I ever could.

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Insurance right off then Boss Man.

Just a wee bit, I was initially told it was a multiple pile up, until I turned up and found it was a wagon and its load. :grin:

The public do tend to exaggerate, it’s human nature to over emphasise the situation, if a car has a bang and it’s only steam from the radiator the caller will say it’s on fire a multiple appliances are dispatched.
Or occupants trapped is definitely all hands on deck for a shout, on arrival they were only struggling to get their seat belts off.

I had the same thing with a car transporter on the m40 s/ bound just before Cherwell valley exit .
It wasn’t quick like that incident , he slowly started to drift to the right ( I’d just started to o/take ) , I originally thought it was sleep / medical that was causing him to come my way , then the front tyre went completely and the transporter went hard right , he luckily didn’t hit the central reservation.
I pulled over to make sure he was ok , he was but said he just couldn’t hold it , he was just a passenger , frightening to witness .

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That was frightening to see Dozy.

I’ve lost count of the amount of vehicle fires I’ve been tasked to, only to arrive and find it’s a blown turbo.

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Lucky escape for 7 Range rover customers, at least for a while.

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Or a split fuel pipe that makes smoke but not on fire.