On the the way home, my rear/passenger tire blew out while on the freeway. The night before I heard a ticking noise but couldn’t locate the source. Later in the evening, I noticed the sound gone so I thought whatever it was dislodged. I heard it again while drive home from work and finally saw the nail head. Arrgh, again! I figures I go to tire shop tomoroow since it was Saturday evening already. Last time (Feb 8 ‘09), the guy at the shop said it was OK to drive on it as long as you’re not losing air, so I didn’t think much of it.
15mins of street and 10mins of freeway, the tire blew after I was changing lanes towards the rightin case the tire lost air. Didn’t EXPECT the blow-out!
Car immediately swerved to the the right, I steered back to the left and braked to attempt regaining control but start to spin back across 3 lanes toward the concert barrier.
My wife woke up at this point in time to see us skidding towards the barrier.
We continued to skid backwards but the momentum was slowing and the car spun alittle more. We finally came to a stop and fortunately, everyone behind us had stopped and there were no chain reactions. Since the traffic had stopped, I quickly saw my chance to drive over to the right shoulder and did.
A good samaritan came up to help and right away open his trunk and pulled out a small floor jack but I declined since I already called AAA. CHP sho
wed up should after the AAA truck arrived.
