Thread: Car tires blowing from snow load
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Default Car tires blowing from snow load
On 2/2/2011 10:39 AM, wrote:
On Feb 2, 11:06 am, Caesar wrote:
Indeed. Snow weighs about 15 lbs/cuft. So then, 12" of snow on a car
that has a footprint of 6'x12' would have 6x12x15 = 1080 lbs on it.
That's about 5 fat people. That doesn't seem like tire-popping weight
to me.

But the OP said he got SEVEN FEET of snow.
7x1080 = 7560 lbs of snow on top of the car.

That's definitely tire-popping weight.

I wonder if this guy is trying to get on mythbusters...

Actually even that weight (if it could be applied) would not pop tires.

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