Reminds me of a time when I was young, poor uni student living on the smell of an oily rag.
I had an old bomb of a car (Datsun 120y) which developed a rather large bubble in the wall of the tyre. It never really occurred to me just how dangerous this was. My daily commute to UNI involved a small stretch of road that was 100km/h.
In typical fashion though one morning I drove to work (5 mins), was working as a console operator at a servo. About an hour after opening up I heard this almighty bang. Thought to myself what **** was that, looked around the servo, the forecourt, nope nothing out of the ordinary etc, until a customer came in and enquired about who owned the Datsun of which a tyre had just exploded. Gulp, that was me!
Made a real mess of the tyre too! I leant my lesson and bought a new one (although likely it was a retread).
A few years later, my brother was driving the same car when all of a sudden the front wheel came off and rolled down the street, car left the family after that.
Young and poor, those were the days!
