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Have you broken a tyre?

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:48 pm
by LuxyBoy
Guys i am just after feedback of who has broken a lug on a tyre.

Please include:
Tyre Type
Tyre Size
Vehicle it was on
If possible an explanation of what you were doing at the time eg. line lock on bitumen, crawling/gassing it up a rock face or tree root in mud

(NO SIDEWALL PUNCTURES PLEASE)

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:56 pm
by 75 cruiser
285/75 r16 cooper st on a tray back landcruiser climbing up a rocky hill.

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:24 pm
by Timmeh
I've ripped lugs of 35x13.3x15 baja claws in the bush on shaly rock surface. I run them on a hilux.

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:18 pm
by GQ Bear
Heaps of tears and chunks missing off all my tyres - mostly on shaley, loose rock and other rock climbs, etc. My current tyres are Simex 35x11.5 R15's and they have a few splits and tears, and a couple of chunks missing here and there. These have by far been the toughest tyre i've owned, but i have never had a whole lug missing before:shock:

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:39 pm
by stoo2
I have a cut most of the way through one of my ET's lugs ( 35 x 10.5 x 16 on a troopy, Toolangi rocks )
Stu

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:13 am
by ricky1970
Broken lugs off all 4 Kumho 31" M/T's, punchered all 4 in the tread (about 12 punchers in all) and tore the sidewall out in one of them, all done by rocks. RIP 4 x Kumho muddies :?
Got MTR's now, 1 cracked lug doing the same stuff and no flats :)

lugs

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:28 pm
by Bunyip
have completly towrn a lug off a simex jungle trekker2 and sliced through 3 off the six ply side wall, was getting wheel spin on a very sharp rock ledge. lucky they were bias ply though any radial would of been
f@$%cked

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:06 pm
by ferrit
Got some chunks missing from my Maxxis mudders, but no other damage yet.

Rocks in the brindies- usually under power while turning.

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:43 pm
by leigh 2
l have chunks out off bf mud on rocks
leigh :cool:

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:22 pm
by Beastmavster
Torn part of a cooper stt lug off and cot wires hanging out from the carcass.

(creek rockhopping at Ormeau)

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:21 pm
by mtb_man
Torn several lugs/chunks off a 31x10.5 Bridgestone Desert Dueller, gassing it on sharp rocks probably to blame. Tires were on a diesel Hilux and a diesel GQ at different times.