ok to drive over tires?

[amykathleen]

today we were driving and there was a tire in the middle of the road (on it's side). luckily it was in a different lane of traffic.

anyhoo for future reference, for the echo would it have been safe to drive over the tire? (not touching our wheels of course). is the echo high enough off the ground? we have 15" rims if it's any help.

~Amy

[Damage82]

I wouldn't recomend it, cause if you just scraped it, you would have had it roll underneath you and that would have caused a problem, if you had to drive over it, do it as slow as possible.

[ECHOKnight2000]

Yeah I agree, I mean the ECHO is relatively high I guess for a sub-compact...but still I think even with any car you should be careful of tire shrouds-I think that's what there call. Not long ago I was driving to my co-workers and I was on the highway and this old Ford truck was in front of me and the tire went out! He just pulled over and it wasn't like the movies where the car is flipping over and over (thank goodness) anyway no surprise that a tire on a Ford went out but the point is I kind of dodged the tire shreds or whatever...in general you want to advoid or drive carefully over them, but try to advoid if possible, you don't want it to get caught in anything under the car or damage something, yes I know its just rubber but you never know!