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21-01-2014, 09:19 AM | #1 | ||
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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!!!! [/IMG]
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21-01-2014, 09:24 AM | #2 | ||
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I feel your pain......Focus ST with approx 75% tread remaining, nail thru sidewall.....$310.00 thank you very much.
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21-01-2014, 09:48 AM | #3 | ||
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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. |
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21-01-2014, 10:48 AM | #5 | ||
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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. |
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21-01-2014, 10:56 AM | #6 | ||
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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.
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21-01-2014, 07:39 PM | #7 | ||
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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. |
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21-01-2014, 09:31 PM | #9 | ||
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hi, repaired a puncture awhile back with a tek screw driver bit in it
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21-01-2014, 09:51 PM | #10 | ||
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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. |
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21-01-2014, 11:42 PM | #11 | ||
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When you stuff your rim that's when it gets depressing.
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22-01-2014, 08:00 AM | #12 | |||
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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
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22-01-2014, 08:39 AM | #13 | ||
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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!
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22-01-2014, 08:46 AM | #14 | ||
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i got a pushrod through a tyre in my old dirtbike, easy fix though with a new tube
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22-01-2014, 09:26 AM | #15 | ||
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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. |
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22-01-2014, 02:00 PM | #16 | |||
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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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22-01-2014, 02:38 PM | #17 | ||
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22-01-2014, 03:38 PM | #18 | ||
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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...
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22-01-2014, 07:21 PM | #19 | ||
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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.
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22-01-2014, 08:26 PM | #20 | ||
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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!!! |
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22-01-2014, 10:03 PM | #21 | ||
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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.
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22-01-2014, 10:11 PM | #22 | ||
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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 |
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22-01-2014, 10:19 PM | #23 | ||
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22-01-2014, 10:42 PM | #24 | ||
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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.
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22-01-2014, 11:09 PM | #25 | ||
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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. |
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24-01-2014, 07:34 PM | #27 | ||
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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
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