Duner dude, that sux. Unfortunately I see those loose retreads and entire shredded tires all the time. Freaking idiots that don't take care of their stuff, heat up a tire and kablooie.
I expected your damage to be worse. Thanks to the license plate bracket for saving the rest of the nose. Mine recently deflected an electric cord that had unrolled on the freeway. Made a helluva sound. Just left a red streak across the plastic cover that rubbed off.
Good luck with the repairs. They do make some really good epoxies. Might try a backup piece to reinforce the breaks.
Again bro, sorry that had to happen to you.
I think the bracket helped, but's it's only 1/2 taped on now, so I might have to remove it and re-install it with new tape. Oh darn, might have to leave it off for a few days
I ordered the black permatex plastic weld off amazon, plan is to apply and use zipties to hold it in place while it dries (if it's possible im not sure it is). Or just let it dry in it's relaxed state as the epoxy says it can also fill gaps (Probably go for this next weekend). Should be as good as new if it works
I had exact issue which lead to some paint damage on the left fender which I didn't connect to having been the tire immediately.
Thought I got some weird sideswipe while parked hit and run and then remembered I had hit a tire tread with my left tire a few days before..
No video sadly.
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Damn that sucks, I'm going to call my insurance agent too.
Oh your links don't work (permissions issues).
Out of curiosity, did FCW go off when the car in front of you brakes for the tire at about 2 seconds? Hard to tell how hard he was braking, but I would have expected it might trigger at that speed with a sudden slowdown - unless you also started braking immediately when you saw his brake lights. Hard to tell. Obviously you started braking when you saw the tire...
Sorry to hear about the damage. Tire retreads are terrible.
No alert from the car, I think he was far enough ahead he was just barely showing on the AP screen.
I'm sure some retreads are good, but those are likely the more expensive kinds that people don't buy to save money. They sure are hazardous when they fail. I don't expect to see them in the carpool lane, as I thought mostly large trucks buy retreads, but apparently so do light trucks. Don't they have a lower top speed rating though? Obviously guy was in the fast lane in the carpool lane
Allot of the times it's the companies not taking care of their stuff, not the people driving the trucks, but if there is a speed restriction then it's the drivers fault. If they can save $100, then who cares if they cause $1000's in damage to other cars, or worse kill someone on a motorcycle.
It appears there is also a tear / fray in my cloth underbody shield too, the bolt is loose, so I'm going to tighten it up when I rotate my tires later today and see if it is really an issue or not.
** my deductable is $500, but I'm thinking that filing a claim will devalue the car. Probably better to fix it myself and save making claims for the next time timething hits me.
