Blown tire: how far do you think I can drive?

Ya'll do realize the thread was started in July, 2012. I think he has probably resolved this issue by now.

 

What you are thinking of may be the reaction created when heat is applied to a rim. I don't think this happens just from the heat generated by a flexing tire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNZ4siYGkag

 

Bigrigbound revived it.
If his info is correct , he is a newbee.
Better he gets the right information.
Right?

 

Really,it is the flexing off the tyre that's the initial heat source.
That's why an underinflated tyre heats up.

 

Oh well, people do try to revive dead threads. Another forum I'm in just had someone try to revive a thread that has been dead for over 2 years and the OP has been dead for a year and a half!

 

Are you talking Kevin's forum and who died?

 

Actually, I've put out a tire that caught fire with a shovel and sand (granted I was hauling the sand in a dump trailer) but really that is the only way to put it out is to cover it with soil of some type.

 

That's just the start of the reaction. On that video it says gases are released inside the contained rim area ... which the gases is a byproduct of the reaction which is started by a heat source.

I read it on one of the big name tire websites. I can't remember which one. After looking wildly I think it's called the Diels-Alder Reaction which is a thermal reaction when two chemicals in a tire heat up and mix together creating more heat. Something like that. That's one reason it can reach such high temperatures along with the oils and other stuff in a tire when it burns. That big tire fire in VA burned for like 9 months and smoldered for 13 years because they couldn't put it out.

 

Yep. Lily Williams, about a year and a half ago from a brain anuerism. She was a good friend of mine.

 

I'm still not ready to concede that brushing a couple of gallons on an overheated tire over a period of 10 minutes would not reduce the temperature a very significant amount. Think about how long you would have to heat a two-gallon pot of water on a gas burner to boil it all away and how much heat that takes. Air temperature and humidity would be significant factors in evaporation of water on a hot tire, but I believe the vast majority of it would be "boiled away" by the heat in the tire. But I would not bet a lot of money on it.