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Originally Posted by vex
Yes. As the tire is already stressed outside of spec; damage to the wheel is more than likely to result (not to be confused with the tire). Normal blow out allows for material sacrifice to save the wheel. This is of course dependent upon the amount of stretch on the tire. The closer the stretch is to stock spec the more material will be available to sacrifice in maintaining the wheel.
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I don't mean more damage to the things I own. I mean more dangerous. I.E. am I more likely to die or more kill someone else based on a blow out because of a stretched tire instead of a non-stretched tire? In my experience when you have a blow out you're driving on a shitty little band of rubber wrapped around the wheel flopping around like an epileptic on meth. Would a blow out with a stretched tire be worse or harder to control in some way?
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Originally Posted by vex
This is not the same as failure (encroachment into plastic region of deformation).
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The explaination was what I was looking for (the picture helped). I wasn't relating this to tires though, I was just wondering why the technical information about the material had such a wide range of data. Seems either really unpredictable or there is a lot of data that we aren't getting. I would imagine to have an 800% discrepancy there would have to be a lot of tests with different compounds, temperatures, etc.