My dad took the cls out today and after about 2 minutes from the house he heard the tyre burst. He had been driving at less than 30 mph, then when he was pulling away from the t junction at about 10 mph the tyre make a sound akin to driving over a pothole. He then contined to pull over and park the car, so this was about 20 metres of driving after the burst. The tyre that burst is the rear right tyre.
The car is used almost solely for pootling around town and has only been used a handful of times on the motorway. The front tyres were changed about a month ago and was told I had about 3-4000 miles left on the rears and that they were in good condition, so about a year or 2 of life left for them, so didn't bother changing them. I also had the allignment done at the same time on the hunter machine, it place is an independant specialists who are trustworthy (eurotyres in wembley).
The car is a cls500 with 19" amg alloys, 2006 06 plate car, 1 previous owner and was purchased about 6 months ago from an independant dealer (hillmoren in leicester) with 12,500 miles on the clock and it has now covered 2,000 miles. The dealer had carried out a minor service prior to sale of the car too.
I had taken the car for a little run on the motorway to give it's lungs a workout and found the car to be juddering above about 40-50 miles per hour and getting worse the higher the speed. It felt like the wheels were not balanced properly so I assumed that because I hadn't taken the car for a high speed run since it had had the new front tyres and allignment it was down to that or the tyres pressures (I didn't get round checking the tyre pressures however). I needed to take the car into mercedes for some small things on the car to be done anyways so thought I would let them check it out.
So am I right in guessing that the tyre actually burst?
Why would this happen, I cannot see anything apart from one old one that seems to have safely lodged itself in some time back?
Thanks in advance
The car is used almost solely for pootling around town and has only been used a handful of times on the motorway. The front tyres were changed about a month ago and was told I had about 3-4000 miles left on the rears and that they were in good condition, so about a year or 2 of life left for them, so didn't bother changing them. I also had the allignment done at the same time on the hunter machine, it place is an independant specialists who are trustworthy (eurotyres in wembley).
The car is a cls500 with 19" amg alloys, 2006 06 plate car, 1 previous owner and was purchased about 6 months ago from an independant dealer (hillmoren in leicester) with 12,500 miles on the clock and it has now covered 2,000 miles. The dealer had carried out a minor service prior to sale of the car too.
I had taken the car for a little run on the motorway to give it's lungs a workout and found the car to be juddering above about 40-50 miles per hour and getting worse the higher the speed. It felt like the wheels were not balanced properly so I assumed that because I hadn't taken the car for a high speed run since it had had the new front tyres and allignment it was down to that or the tyres pressures (I didn't get round checking the tyre pressures however). I needed to take the car into mercedes for some small things on the car to be done anyways so thought I would let them check it out.
So am I right in guessing that the tyre actually burst?
Why would this happen, I cannot see anything apart from one old one that seems to have safely lodged itself in some time back?
Thanks in advance
