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Originally Posted by akumachu
I don't see how the tire could kick a rock on to the cooler since the cooler sits in front of the axle toward the front lip, closer to the front than the back half of the tire. So things coming off the tire would shoot pass it. Unless the wheel are turn 90 degrees, which the car can't do. Or maybe when you were going backward?
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The risk is from a stone squeezed under the edge of the tread next to the inner sidewall, effectively “pinging” the stone towards the centre underside of the car, as opposed to being thrown off the centre of the tread.