Date:         Wed, 30 May 2007 04:17:16 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Mounted Spare Blowout
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So of all the things I could be thinking about at 4 in the morning I now
find myself thinking about the notion that of all the myriad things you
might have done in that situation (like shoo away the rat, fer instance),
you apparently decided instead to hunker down and observe this entire
process from beginning to end.
So, how many licks does it take to get to the cent- um... how long does it
take a rat to chew through a tire?
I'm also wondering if you sat the owner down to tell him this same story...
or if it's even true.
I need to go to bed now.

Cya,
Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Springer" <kimspringer@RCN.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: Mounted Spare Blowout


> I've seen this happen before and every bay window driver should know never
> to park the front of the van too close to a garbage bin.
>
> I once observed a rat jump from a garbage bin and onto the spare on the
> front of the van, eat through the vinyl cover and into the tire on a bay
> window.  Once the tire lets loose from the chewing, the rat is projected
> at
> the bin, bounces back off the bin and breaks the front window.
>
> It actually wasn't that loud, just a short squeel from the rat as it hit
> the
> windsheild.
>
> Kim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Allen Hill" <route66rider@KNOLOGY.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 5:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Mounted Spare Blowout
>
>
>> No thunderstorms (or rain) in this area for quite a long while.  Also,
>> the
>> tire was checked at 45 psi last winter and was covered with one of those
> HD
>> vinyl covers.  Just the way that it was so totally shredded is what is so
>> strange!
>>
>>
>> Route 66 Rider!
>> Ramon Hill
>> Live Long and Be Free
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>> Of
>> Jake de Villiers
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:13 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: Mounted Spare Blowout
>>
>> Did you have a thunderstorm?
>>
>> On 5/29/07, Mike Collum <collum@verizon.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hmmmm ... Was it a tire rated for 35 psi inflated to 50 psi?
>> >
>> > Mike
>> >
>> >
>> > Allen Hill wrote:
>> > > Does anyone have any idea why the spare would just blow out while
>> > mounted on the
>> > > carrier?  The weather is in the mid 80s and the parking platform is
>> > shaded by a number of large trees.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jake
>> 1984 Vanagon GL
>> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>>