lukish
New member
Hello,
So two weeks ago I went to the car mechanic to replace my old Sonar tyre in the back, which had been badly punctured, with a Yokohama 185/50/14 (can't remember the exact model though).
The last night the Yokohama tyre blew up while on the highway. There was a terrible smell of burnt rubber. I examined what happened today, and I've seen that the reason the tyre blew up is that the inside of the tyre was rubbing against the inside of the wheel arch! Little by little this thinned the side of the tyre, till it completely cut it open. The tyre has a huge gash on the side now, and is even partially melted. A little bit of the red paint on the inner part of the wheel arch has even been scraped away by the constant friction, so that you can see the clean metal.
My question is: I'm driving a Seicento Sporting with standard 14" alloys, and the tyre fitted was a 185/50/14 which was just fine. I have two Conti sport in the front, same size, and they've been doing just fine. I assumed that that size of tyre could easily go in the back as well, but apparently not. What do I need to do to avoid that in the future? Add some spacers? If so, I've been reading about spacers, offset, ET, but am still not sure how big a spacer I need. Can anybody enlighten me please?
So two weeks ago I went to the car mechanic to replace my old Sonar tyre in the back, which had been badly punctured, with a Yokohama 185/50/14 (can't remember the exact model though).
The last night the Yokohama tyre blew up while on the highway. There was a terrible smell of burnt rubber. I examined what happened today, and I've seen that the reason the tyre blew up is that the inside of the tyre was rubbing against the inside of the wheel arch! Little by little this thinned the side of the tyre, till it completely cut it open. The tyre has a huge gash on the side now, and is even partially melted. A little bit of the red paint on the inner part of the wheel arch has even been scraped away by the constant friction, so that you can see the clean metal.
My question is: I'm driving a Seicento Sporting with standard 14" alloys, and the tyre fitted was a 185/50/14 which was just fine. I have two Conti sport in the front, same size, and they've been doing just fine. I assumed that that size of tyre could easily go in the back as well, but apparently not. What do I need to do to avoid that in the future? Add some spacers? If so, I've been reading about spacers, offset, ET, but am still not sure how big a spacer I need. Can anybody enlighten me please?