Blown tires

[NewFlyerDE60LFR08030]

I have recently learned that a blown tire can result in fire depending on how long the vehicle operates with the tire being flat. I did see Youtube videos of Charter coaches and even a Greyhound bus where the tire blew resulting in the entire coach being destroyed. One thing I hope newer buses have which my new car has is a low tire pressure light on the dash board that lights up when the tire pressure is low. Since that will help reduce the risk of a fire as the result to a flat tire. And I do hope all new cars have them these days.

[bodyman]

cars don't need this tech, hi cost, lo quality junk, just look at slate of problems from toyo lately. your a driver, not a passenger, drive the car. a bus however, so large as to make lo pressure hard to detect, appropriate here, not cars.

[NewFlyerDE60LFR08030]

I dont think its too expensive to have a low tire pressure light equipped on the dash board of a vehicle. I think the way they work is it has a censor in the wheel wells and if that censor detects that the tire pressure is low the low tire pressure light will come on. My new car I bought last year has one and so far it only came on twice. And all I did was turn the radio off to hear if my tire was flat and it didnt sound like it. So I just had to add more air to my tires. Plus sometimes you cant always hear a flat tire. Like the time my Saturn got one. I felt the car driving rough and at some point I pulled over and realized my tire was flat. It did smell like hot rubber. And Im lucky the car didnt catch fire as the result. But I didnt care if that car got totaled since it crapped out too much.

Plus Im sure not all of MTAs rear wheel well fires were brake defects. Some possibly got a blown tire and the driver didnt know until the wheel well was shooting flames out. Which does occasionally happen with Charter coaches. Both private Tour and Charter companies as well as Greyhound and Trailways. I suspect Greyhounds 6956 was a rear wheel well fire since the coach burnt to its frame. And the Trans Canada Greyhound fire video I posted on facebook more likely was to. And another MCI G Series in the US. I think was a 7200 series coach.