We have preached it over and over again for years now. We have shown countless videos of what can happen, and we’ve even had it happen to us. Putting a car on the dyno can be a good time…you get to see the honest power figures for your ride and you get to hear the car in action without the car going anywhere, but that also ramps up the danger factor exponentially. As the RPMs climb the tach, more and more energy is at play, from the engine to the rollers the tires are spinning. If anything goes wrong between those two points, it is not going to be a gentle issue. We’ve seen engines explode, driveshafts call it a day…we’ve even heard of the rollers seizing up mid-pull. But one thing to consider are the tires. A typical pull will put the car into a mid-range gear and will run the entire RPM range. We’ve started dyno pulls at 80 miles an hour indicated before, so we have to wonder just how fast the rear tires on this late-model Mustang were spinning when the tire failed. It was not a gentle air-down, either…that puppy explodes with enough force to bend up the Mustang’s “black metal” sections just as hard as it did the outer sheetmetal. Remember, folks, keep your distance from the moving bits!
I just don’t understand what was going on here. Why was the car at that high of a speed for that long on the dyno? And notice how the dyno operator didn’t even have a clue what speed the car was at when all hell let loose
I guess I am confused. When I have run a car on a dyno it was in the gear that was as close to 1:1 ratio as possible. They run the car from around 2k to redline and done.
This event seems to be ripe for carnage if they are going to be running a car to “max speed.” I wonder if the Mustang guy is going to go after the “dyno” guy.
Or maybe, just maybe, it was a crappy/cheap tire…
Expensive lesson to learn. Unfortunately way too many people assume their tires can handle whatever they throw at them. The guy said he had the car a month; doubt he even looked at the speed rating on the tire. If someone else did the mods it is too easy to (foolishly) assume the whole car is built up to the task of handling all the additional power.
It might be something to mention to your car enthusiast friends. Explain to them the concept of tire speed ratings. You don’t want to hear they died in a high speed wreck when a tire burst.
Sad day for the Mustang but I hope people learn from it.
True, if tire is not rated for x-speed and it exceeds it, BOOM!
What speed rating tires does a stock Mustang GT come with these days anyway?
that sucks
its new
and well maybe its a good thing or maybe bad that it was someone else that did it
if you’re gonna have a huge expense…. ENJOY it
It would be my guess that hard dyno runs strapped down to a roller put different stresses on tires than normal use…certainly it looks like the tread gets flexed a lot harder. Anyhow, note to all the guys who stand around with cell-phone cameras video’ing everything…try to not drop the camera like some kind of doofus as soon as anything actually happens.
Yeah, why is it making such a long pull?
Gets a flat tires, totals car. #fordproblems
Well, at least he’ll be able to buy a real car now, perhaps not something made by Ford. Garbage
9 years no camaro=garbage
34 million recalls from GM products=garbage
24 deaths from faulty GM ignition switches=garbage
$900 million in fines imposed on GM=garbage
Grenaded engines in new corvettes with a class action lawsuit pending=garbage
A tire lets go on a Mustang on a dyno and the car is garbage?
Yeah, well, because Ford makes their own tyres…hmm, let us not forget this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q3IZDCaR7M