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#4 ·
I've seen people drive on worse, but i'm not going to be responsible if you drive on it at 100MPH and have a blow out, slamming sideways into a bus of football players hurting/killing any/all of them.

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#5 ·
Repairs cannot be made to the sidewall of a tire.
If you are buying the car, demand a new tire.
 
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#6 · (Edited)
Yes, replace asap as it's not safe to drive on for two reasons, crashing and further damage to the car. Even if you stick to city streets where it would be very hard to crash due to tire failure, blowouts can cause significant body damage to modern cars...sadly. Use this as a bargaining chip towards new tires.


Edit: Tried to find a picture of blowout damage (wrinkled fender/quarter panel, popped headlights, etc.) and could only come up with this lovely picture of a model pretending to fix a flat.

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chucchinchilla said:
Edit: Tried to find a picture of blowout damage (wrinkled fender/quarter panel, popped headlights, etc.) and could only come up with this lovely picture of a model pretending to fix a flat.

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Agreed. :laugh: Using only 2 fingers on that ratchet...
 
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#13 ·
Isn't that chunk out of the part of the tire that is designed to protect the wheel from minor curb rash? If so, I wouldn't think it would matter that much to the overall structural integrity of the tire. Looks ugly, but I wouldn't think it's unsafe because of that.
 
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nicoli said:
Isn't that chunk out of the part of the tire that is designed to protect the wheel from minor curb rash? If so, I wouldn't think it would matter that much to the overall structural integrity of the tire. Looks ugly, but I wouldn't think it's unsafe because of that.
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That's what I'm thinking too. The chunk missing is not the load baring part of the sidewall.
 
#15 ·
in the grand scheme, probably just cheaper and safer to buy another tire. you could probably drive on it and never had a problem, but it's just going to be a failure point that gets worse and worse over the life of the tire...
 
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nicoli said:
Isn't that chunk out of the part of the tire that is designed to protect the wheel from minor curb rash? If so, I wouldn't think it would matter that much to the overall structural integrity of the tire. Looks ugly, but I wouldn't think it's unsafe because of that.
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That's what I was thinking. I'd live with it. Especially if the tire is newer/has good tread.
 
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