Tyre blowout!
 

Stuck at the side of the M1 in the snow, tyre just suddenly started to wobble then a nasty burning smell. Called recovery, waited for an hour and they phoned to say they couldn't find me in Yorkshire. I'm near Milton Keynes....!

Safe by the side of the road though mate - seen many a blow out cause some real hurt ....

Hope you get rescued soon and there's no damage to your rim ....

Sounds nasty, glad you got it stopped safely.

Hope recovery dont take too long to find you.

Lucky it wasn't any worse.

Just got in, recovery took nearly 3 hours though so not best pleased. Tyre has split at the rim so feel quite lucky. Just got home and there's a powercut so having a great evening!

I had a blowout down the a127 at 60mph, sideways and brown trousers were involved! Lucky tho as I had been doing a ton on the m25 just beforehand.

Scary stuff Matt, luckily the tyres gave me some warning moments before. I was cruising at around 60, put my foot down to get past a lorry then bang! Ive never seen a tyre smoke and be red hot like mine was earlier. It was a Avon ZZ3thats done about 35000miles so not done bad.

Mine was down to a nail, think I have a pic somewhere... one min

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n...t/IMG_0297.jpg

All the potholes about, wonder we dont hear more stories like this.

Bit of a pain but could have been so much worse.

One thing I was told, never hit your brakes, just ease off and pull over.

Remember going down our Spur road, car went flying by with a tyre smoking, flashed him but he didnt slow. Then his tyre exploded, he was OK just pulled over onto the verge.