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How do I decide if these five tires are holed too close to the sidewall?
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How do I decide if these five tires are holed too close to the sidewall?
On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 22:13:52 -0500, Ed Pawlowski advised:
>> Wow. I seem to have at least one a year, and sometimes more (lately). > > I drive about 22,000 miles a year and the worst case is to add some air > a couple of times. Present car has 25,000 miles and for the first time > I had to put air in one when the TPM went of when it was 7 degrees one > morning. I don't have TPMS and I only drive around 12 to 15k per year, but I get about 1 flat a year, on average and my tires last about two years on average. > Ah, it pretty much has. Many cars have a can of air now. Is that right? I have never seen a car that didn't come with a spare tire, although some come with cheap donuts instead of a real spare. Mine are 15 years old at the very least, so all mine have real spares. > It was dark, about 35 degrees and raining. Took the guy about a half > hout to show up and do the change. Meantime I shopped in Home Depot. Well, if you're off the highway, that's a different story 'cuz you can rest at a Starbucks; but if you're on the highway, then it's quicker to change the tire than it is to wait for AAA to change the tire. Safety is a factor though, so, being towed off the highway to change the tire could be a factor though. I think, in California, towing off the highway is free, paid for by your taxes (I have to check that to be sure). > The first time was a dozen years ago. I ran over a body bolt and it > made a big hole in the sidewall. Car was about two months old. I took > the other car to work. Dealer came over, took the tire off and mounted > a new one, put it back. No idea how long it took them but I lost no > time. Had to pay for the tire, of course. Sidewall holes are bad news. > When I was a teenager driving a '53 Merc with either used tire or > recaps, I changed many tires. Found a better way. I used to change my motorcycle tires myself. I don't know anyone who doesn't, but I guess some tire shops do bike tires. |
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How do I decide if these five tires are holed too close to the sidewall?
On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 01:13:08 -0500, FromTheRafters advised:
> One time as I was crossing some railroad tracks, I heard my tire going > phtt phtt phtt phtt with every rotation. I pulled over and put on my > spare. Took the tire to a shop to see what happened and to get it > repaired if possible. The object which punctured the tire was found > inside, it was a spark plug. Wow. A apark plug. I wonder if that's what I ran over? One day, decades ago, when I was just an obnoxious kid, I was following a truck at night on a crowded New York highway and I made the mistake of ****ing him off (I was young and stupid). I probably beeped him or flipped him the bird but I don't remember what I did nor what he did to cause the altercation. He may have been innocent and he is just circumstantial, but while I was following him, my tire suddenly blew. All I remember was hearing a loud POW and my tire was flat instantly. There was a gash in the tire tread, as I recall, and nothing else visible. As if a knife had been stuck in the tire. I changed to the spare, and remember thinking, "never **** off truckers" (and I never did again, since truckers are not your friend). A day or two later, when the tire is replaced, there is an actual deep mark in the alloy wheels on the *inside* of the rim directly across from where that gash was, but no object. To this day, I don't know what suddenly flattened that tire; but whatever it was, it was big. Whatever flattened that tire was long enough to go inside the tire and touch the inside of the rim which is a few inches, but it then came out. It was like as if a railroad spike had been run over. |
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How do I decide if these five tires are holed too close to the sidewall?
Frank Baron:
Not saying the trucker did anything to cause your flat that night, but: Not all truckers like their jobs. Many are under pressures not self-imposed, but by their employers or customers, to get product to stores where you and I can buy it. And sometimes their driving habits show it: Speeding, tail-gating other drivers, frequent lane changes, frequent use of the horns, etc. Best just to give them their room. Remember: this is not Star Wars - they are not "Imperial Star Destroyers" and we are not Luke in his X-wing, or Han Solo in the Falcon, zooming by them in outer space and taunting them. LOL |
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How do I decide if these five tires are holed too close to the sidewall?
On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 9:23:21 AM UTC-10, wrote:
> Frank Baron: > > Not saying the trucker did anything to cause your > flat that night, but: Not all truckers like their jobs. > Many are under pressures not self-imposed, but > by their employers or customers, to get product > to stores where you and I can buy it. And sometimes > their driving habits show it: Speeding, tail-gating > other drivers, frequent lane changes, frequent > use of the horns, etc. > > Best just to give them their room. Remember: > this is not Star Wars - they are not "Imperial Star > Destroyers" and we are not Luke in his X-wing, > or Han Solo in the Falcon, zooming by them in > outer space and taunting them. LOL My guess is that the emergence of self-driving trucks will bring about the return of highway pirates. It is going to look like small X-wings attacking an Imperial Star Destroyer. |
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