puncture items that defy logic

[jphanna]

my house was in sight, all i had to do was drive in to garage, walk around the corner to check my cousins house out (on holidays interstate) and walk back home. i chose the lazy option and drove there. house all good, get in car and after about 50 metres, that tapping sound and vibration in car. i knew i had picked up something AGAIN. (7 months ago, again around the corner from home, an ALLEN KEY lodged in the sidewall and punctured that and the tread. 2 holes in a newish car i had for a month.)

this time......i couldnt figure out what it was until i took it off the car. it looked like a LAMB SHANK and the narrow part of the bone pierced the edge of the tread. another 270.00 newish tyre gone!!!!

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[Mulga]

I feel your pain......Focus ST with approx 75% tread remaining, nail thru sidewall.....$310.00 thank you very much.

[2011G6E]

When we owned a Landcruiser, we'd just put a brand new set of Cooper ATR tyres on it. And maybe two hours later we picked up a large coach screw (and I do mean large...it had to be six inches long and about 3/8" thick!) right up through the sidewall just beside the tread where it couldn't be fixed.

Luckily the shop agreed to replace the tyre for the cost of fitting! Wish I could remember the shops name.

[Windsor220]

We had a customer come in recently with a tow bar pin in the tyre and also went through the rim. Not sure how.



The big bit.

[ford71V8]

If it can puncture a tyre, I have seen it.... I have the worst luck with punctures.
I woke up once to find 2 (!) punctured tyres on my car (no, not targetted sidewalls).
Thankfully I lived just up the road from a servo that, back then, could help me out.

[mik]

Indeed you never know when you're going to get something go through a tyre, I fitted a couple of nice new steer tyres to my truck and managed to pick up a triangle shaped wooden dagger through the sidewall on the inner side of the 500 buck tyre only a couple of days later.........fffttttt, enough to make a grown man cry.

[Jastel]

1/2 inch wide Drill bit - blunt end inside tyre
Spark plug - ceramic end inside
allan keys and screwdrivers - various sizes
home made tri spiked things that always have a pointy end up, like James Bond drops from his car
glass
bits of wood
and every size roofing screw, coach bolt and nail you can name.

Have had 3 flats in the taxi at a roundabout where tradies always drop their screws every time it rains. When I got there with 3 new tyres at 3am in the morning there where another 4 cars there as well with more than 1 flat.

And yes the newest tyre always gets the flat...it is a rule.

[mash again]

love the way the front tyre pops the tek screw up to go through the rear tyre!

[brettv]

hi, repaired a puncture awhile back with a tek screw driver bit in it

[Danny]

Worst thing that can happen. It really is just the worst sinking feeling when this happens - aint nothing that can be done about it either.

Some little F$$$ put a massive dark rock out on the road out near my place early one morning I was driving in my Megane at dusk and in the lighting conditions didnt see it till it was too late, and hit it.

Fractured sidewall on a 70% tread Michelin Pilot Super Sport. Gone. There were tears.

[blackf6]

When you stuff your rim that's when it gets depressing.

[FPV+fteT3]

My mum ran over an occy lead punctured the tyre and proceeded to whip around removed paint and dinted the rear quarter and door till she pulled over

[LG17]

My 18yo got a roofing screw in his tyre last week (the only way it could have happened is it fell out of his pocket!), got it fixed and put it back on himself - didn't seat the wheel properly. Very lucky it didn't come off but it did manage to destroy the mag and had to replace the wheel studs and nuts!
Still trying to find a replacement mag...
Kids, I tell ya

[ebv8]

i got a pushrod through a tyre in my old dirtbike, easy fix though with a new tube

[Blueford260]

When you are going to get new tyres next ask for a price on insurance for your tyres. When I did it, it wasn't that much extra and for me because I do most of my Km on dirt roads and tracks I'm most likely going to stake a tyre before I wear it out and when I do it will only cost me the % of how much I have used eg if I bugger a tyre and have only used 10% of the tread it will cost me 10% of a new tyre to replace.
Murphy's law but I staked 2 tyres in 2 months about 6 months ago got sick of it and inquired about the insurance got 4 brand new tyres and haven't done one since.

[Iggypoppin']

Not logic defying but my dad has probably had the most punctures ever in his Avalon. 47 and counting since he got it in 2004.

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[Peter B - CV8]

I've had probably half a dozen punctures in the last 6 years or so. Most of them have been tek screws - more than likely fallen from tradies utes etc as they've been driving along. Wish they'd take a bit more care...

[Franco Cozzo]

Tore the **** out of the side wall on a mates gate peg, scratched under the front bar getting out of his drive way because of the lower ride height from losing a front tyre, then drove 500m home and totalled the rim.

[Spurious]

Picked up a screw in a tyre on my XF years ago. It stayed there 'til the day I got new tyres. I showed the fitter & he couldn't believe it hadn't gone flat. Even the head of the screw was worn down to nothing.

I did however get sick of people telling me I had a screw in the tyre!!!

[jd dad]

Our best one was a bullet! Could see the shiny end of it in the tread but had no idea what it was. When they removed the tyre couldn't believe it. A complete intact ready to fire bullet out of something fairly reasonable as it was prob 2 and 1/2 inches long.

[JG65TE]

Got s puncture from a bottle once, didn't see it. Damn kid had it hidden in his jacket ......
. Only had one puncture in my life. Hit a bit of 2x4 in my cruiser on western ring road. My Mrs on the other hand can't go get milk without runnin over something

[GA_0009]

Not a Puncture as such, but a un-balanced tyre on the road for 5 hours straight.

[brismike]

Had a metal tent peg ram thru a fairly new tyre on my BA Fairmont just before I got the FG. Tyre shop couldn't save the tyre which had 95% tread left. $240 for a new one. Ugggh.

[CheftonUTD]

Can't remember having a single one in the ten years I've been driving.

I guess it balances out though, in the last six months my partner has lost 4 tyres, 3 to screws/nails and 1 to scrubbing a kerb while parking.

[rjr]

Someone who follows me on Twitter had this one >

[jakkes]

sliced the side wall of a very near new Yokohama S-Drive on a metal star picket in someones driveway was dark and they where boxing up for a driveway arrhhhhhh