urban_alchemist

Thought you guys might appreciate these (or cringe quietly to yourselves). Happened in a Motorway coming into London at 1am last week... painful!

Anyway, after four days without my car she's back (but not fully healthy), and in the first 100m of driving her home, I fell in love with her all over again. My girlfriend's looking over my shoulder pouting and making huffing noises... apparently I don't talk about her like that...

Anyway... here they are...

Turbodan

Don't you guys have flatbeds in England?

Woodster

ouch, I can hear the front spoiler scraping as we speak,

MK

AiRick

I can feel your pain!

JET951

holy crap airick, how did that happen?

urban_alchemist

+1... AiRick... mine didn't look as bad, but I can bet it smelt the same...

Megatron-UK

Isn't getting towed like that going to wreck the differential/transfer?

slownrusty

That is an absolutely terrible way to tow a 993TT....why did you not insist on a flate bed!!! Boggled!

urban_alchemist

It was only towed like that for a few metres - it conked out in the middle of a very dangerous roundabout and had to be moved there and then. We couldn't get it on a flat-bed as the blown tyre wouldn't let the rear clear the ramp...

After that it was on with the space-saver and over to the Porsche-centre.

Don't worry... no damage and she still drives just right

911/Q45

How old was the tire that blew?

AiRick

Well just picked up a nail, slow leak , low pressure and then boom! Departed freeway backwards at 40mph. Missed a nice metal sign by about 3 in. Just should not be able to die from a flat!

DM993tt

looks like you can patch that right up.

chris walrod

How many bottles of Fix-A-Flat will it take to seal that one up?

Felix

Incidents like these make me think a tire pressure monitoring system (ala http://www.smartire.com ) is a good investment!

Gordon Attar

Urban
Glad there was no damage

and the sidewalls on that tyre are a bit thin the rede must have been terrible