Apologies to all those I made late for work this morning when they encountered lots of flashing lights heading North on the A1 round Newcastle

On my way to work this morning in the daily driver and a little thud from the back of the car then loads of noise -knew Id had a blow out and so made it to the side of the road and was pretty quickly recovered my some nice Highways Agency traffic officers - thankyou fellas, but you could have taken your time - i only missed 45 mins of work....

A word of warning to those of you with lots of negative camber, check the insides of your tyres since mine were above the legal limit at the outer edges and totally bald on the inside - which I guessed caused the blow-out.

Geoff
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Below the legal limit

Wow, glad you're OK, could've been nasty.

That's a little more than a bit of camber. Time to get it laser aligned me thinks!

Heard about you on the local news this morning! Glad I was WFH.

Cheers

Mike

Yeah, you could be right - I ought to have to checked come to think of it.

Yeah I guess it could have been a lot worse - the way off the A1 into Morpeth has a pretty sharply banked section which would I have would have been driving at some point during that journey - it doesnt really have friendly run off areas either!

any trouble from plod about it?

I had a tyre go flat a while ago, tunned out it was down to the metal strips on the inside, legal on the outside. This was on a 406 that carried excess weight so the back end was squashed.

When I realised why it has gone pop, I wondered if the flange would have words but they werent actually there - the only guys in attendance were those Highways Agency dudes, not the boys in blue.

They would have been totally justified in making a fuss of course!

Whats wrong with you folks? Get a patch on it............

Patch - pah, i'm sure that will polish out

Some duct tape and shoe polish ought to do it...