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Can't see what it is, but anything in a sidewall is never a good thing.

Mark

 

Wow!

Is that just a rusty chunk of someone's car?

 

I can never figure how "things" can puncture a tire. I just seems like all the possible variables must line up perfectly for a puncture to happen. Now, looking at that piece of metal, it would seem like it should be laying flat on the road, and that you should be able to just drive over it with no problems. How can something like that jump up, get the angle of tire rotation just perfectly, have the exact sharpness to shear 80 durometer shore A rubber that has steel armor belts, all timed at the split micro second, because your traveling at what 60 MPH?

Now.... if you had just stopped to pet the dog before leaving this morning, that piece of metal would have been sticking in that guy's jacked up pickup truck that just seconds beforehand cut you off at the last intersection.
How does this stuff happen?????

 

What are the odds? I guess this is how Discount Tire can sell those Road Hazard Warranties.

 

Well this was a bullet I dodged last year. Just pulled it out and it hadn't punctured.

 

My wife's last car took a screw like that, but 1cm more towards the inside... it held a pretty good seal, but as soon as it came out the whole tire went flat.

 

One day, long, long, long ago I got a flat tire. Pulled into a local gas station and had the puncture plugged. Drove about a half mile and heard a weird noise coming from that wheel. Drove back and had the guy check it out. After un-mounting the tire we found 1/2 of an adjustable pliers. Went right through the thread.

 

Richard!

your car is just counterculture and wants piercings. Watch out, it will come home with a tatoo soon!

matt

 

2 years ago I was driving to work and suddenly bam, phissssssh. I swapped on the tire (because on good ol cars they actually came with a spare) and took the damaged one in for repair. It was too far gone for repair. I heard there was something inside the wheel and it wasnt til I went to pick up the new tire that I found out what caused the damage. I was a discarded dinner fork. The whole thing was inside my tire rattling around. Very strange.

 

I might believe a salad fork or perhaps even a fish fork, but a full-sized dinner fork? :crazy: