I had a back tire blowout going 45 mph. (Toyota care review)

Happy first ever blowout! The only thing scary about it was the massive BOOM! of the tire blowing out. I was in 5pm rush hour mainstreet traffic and the car handled really well after the blowout and maintained a straight line no problem. I pulled into a car park to inspect the damage.

Warning: Hipster alert:



The wife playing the banjo, wearing a hoodie and white raybans was way too hipster a thing to witness without taking a phone pic and uploading it to her facebook to mock.

Since I am so mainstream (and we still had toyota care) I called the number on my keychain and they sent a tow truck after 5 mins of questions. It came within the hour, he inflated the spare etc and installed it at no cost. I also had road assistance/tire protection so it did not cost me. Only hassle was I just got a call and the dealership said it would take 3 days to get the right tire.

I did not see anything in the road that penetrated the tire, and the hole was pretty small. I was a bit wary about cancelling my AAA because I had Toyota care, but they came through for me.

 

The pressure was fine. I had him check the other tyres pressure while he was there and they were all spot on. I had checked it that week. I am paranoid about that, plus you get a warning light if it is low right?

There is about 34k miles on the tires and they look fine. I did not see any debris on the road. Just boom! He looked for anything obvious stuck in there, or rattling on the rim and there was nothing.

 

Nope. I never knew that was correct etiquette etc. I thought you generally tip people on low wages (pizza delivery, hairdressers, waiters etc etc). I am British so I'm not exactly clued up on that type of thing.

 

Almost 2 weeks and no tire. On back order with no ETA. Not good.