Falcon Tyres

For starters you need to take more interest in what happens to your car; after all you are the person responsible for keeping in a roadworthy state. You should have checked what was done at the 30,000 km service and made sure everything that should have been done was done. You should also have checked the condition of the tyres before you left on your trip to the coast. Had you done so you would have seen the condition they were in and not suffered the fright of your life. The tyre could well have gone from roadworthy to unroadworthy between 30,000 km and 40,000 km; they could have been just roadworthy when checked at 30,000 km and the extra 10,000 km could have tipped them over the edge. Tyre specialists say that 50,000 km is about average for a heavy car like the Falcon, but that can be substantially reduced if the wheel alignment is out, as you say yours was.