A front and a rear blowout are two different emergencies wanting two different responses, which is worth knowing beforehand rather than during. A front tyre going takes the steering with it. The car pulls hard toward the failed side and the wheel tries to leave your hands. A rear tyre going barely touches the steering at all, which is exactly what makes it dangerous, because the back of the car starts to move around and the instinct is to correct with the wheel, then correct back.
The answer to both is the same and it is unnatural. Grip the wheel firmly, keep it pointing where you want to go, and come off the accelerator gently. Do not brake hard, do not steer sharply, and let the car slow itself down. On the A13 that takes longer than feels comfortable with traffic behind you, but a car with one destroyed tyre is stable at falling speed and is not stable under heavy braking. Once it is down to walking pace, ease it off the carriageway, get everybody out on the side away from traffic, and call. We are out 24/7 and we carry the common sizes.
Get yourself somewhere safe first, and only then start ringing anybody. That means as far off the carriageway as you can get, hazards on, and everybody out on the far side of the car. Valve in Rush Green, balance in Becontree, pressures before we go. The wheel comes off in Becontree, not on a ramp in Hornchurch.
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The A13 along the edge of Dagenham is fast and heavy, the A1306 New Road carries plenty of through traffic, and neither offers much room once something has gone. Every useful decision in a blowout is made in the first three seconds, which is why it is worth having read this on a quiet afternoon rather than working it out with a lorry sitting on your tail. Hold it straight, lift off, let it slow, then get off the road.
A driver felt the wheel snatch hard toward the nearside and held it straight rather than fighting it. The car came to a stop clear of the live lanes and a replacement went on where it stood.
A failure on the A1306 New Road barely touched the steering, so the driver carried on for a hundred yards wondering what the noise was. That is the usual way a rear one announces itself.
A tyre destroyed near the Rush Green border had come off the bead and taken a chunk out of the rim edge. Better found before the new tyre went on than afterwards.
A front one feels far worse and a rear one catches more people out. The front pulls the steering hard and is unmistakable. The rear leaves the steering alone, so drivers carry on for a while and only then find the back of the car moving around underneath them.
Because a destroyed tyre gives you almost no grip at that corner, and hard braking asks it for grip it does not have. Coming off the power and letting the car scrub off its own speed keeps it pointing where you put it.
No. A blowout tears the casing plies apart rather than making a hole through them, so there is nothing sound left to bond a repair to. The wheel is worth checking too, because a tyre leaving the bead at speed often marks the rim.
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