# Tire Pressure Phobia

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/tire-pressure-phobia/41333>\
**Category:** The Show\
**Created:** [December 27, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tire-pressure-phobia/41333 "2009-12-27T16:26:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![CapriRacer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/capriracer/32/22_2.png) [@CapriRacer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/CapriRacer)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tire-pressure-phobia/41333/1 "2009-12-27T16:26:59Z")

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I am sorry, guys, but it’s now 2 for 2 when it comes to discussions concerning tires.  
  
  
  
 To review: Peterson called in because he had a phobia about putting air into his tires. As a kid, he had a friend who was injured by an exploding tire. After many years, the woman he was with had convinced him to give it a try - and nothing happened!  
  
  
  
 However, this was followed up with an ancedote at work where someone’s cousin had a tire explode while filling it.  
  
  
  
 Your advice was right on - the odds are extremely low that this would happen and he should forget about it.  
  
  
  
 HOWEVER, Tommy - in his effort to make a connection with Peterson - relayed his phobia about old style trucks with split rims.  
  
  
  
 First, it’s hard to find a split rim in use nowadays. Been that way for deacades - and as an anecdote, is un-necessarily alarmist - and Peterson was right in pointing that out.  
  
  
  
 You guys said that the primary reason this happen is from overinflation!  
  
  
  
 Sorry, but that is 100% wrong!  
  
  
  
 The primary reason this happens is because the tire was damaged - because the tire was operated UNDER-inflated - AND - the best precaution is to regularly fill your tires to the proper pressure.  
  
  
  
 and defective? Every tire is inflated before it leaves the factory - and if it was defective it would have exploded there!  
  
  
  
 I realize you guys don’t deal with tires much - and an occasional slip is to be expected - but seriously! I think you guys need to get some assistance before you answer another tire question.

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