"Picked up" a 7" long grade 8 cat bolt goin down the highway about 75mph. Just gotta love road construction....
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Wife ran over a 1" thick steel plate 24" x14" figure the front tire flipped it up and the rear wheel hit it in the air, sheared the rear tire tread all the way across. Bungee strap hook took out a brand new tire on my pickup one year, went right thru the sidewall, thank goodness for les schwabs road hazard warantee.
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About the time of the Firestone fiasco, (I have an Exploder) I was chatting with a fellow from our church who happened to be a lawyer for Conti and others. He mentioned the Expy/Conti and Fords in general as being "overrepresented" in the blow-out/roll overs in focus at the time.
Congrats on not being a statistic.
That's good info. The day after I had the event, I went to Sam's Club in Bangor, Maine and bought a set of 4 Michelens as I no longer trusted the Conti's for my ride back to Va.
I gave the three "good" tires to the tire mechanic and asked him to give them to someone that may be struggling, but, "please thoroughly inspect them first" and "make no profit from them" were my only stipulations.
The Michelens have been hands down the best tire I've ever had.
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I work on cars for a living. The weirdest thing I ever saw in a tire was a twig (stick) about 1/8" wide x 1" long stuck in a tire. I still have no idea how it penetrated.
Similarly, I had a 2" diameter piece of wood stabbed through the inner sidewall of a trailer tire once.
It was a new Carlilse trailer tire and I took it back to the place where I bought it, wood still in place.
I got the shop manager, a good friend of mine, and told him I wanted my money back because his tire wouldn't hold air.
He inspected the tire and said There's your problem. You need a bigger piece of wood.
When I was stationed in Germany, at a small fenced radio station, we had a German Shepherd that was the sites' official guard. That dog hated motor driven vehicles from lawn mowers, to motorcycles, to cars and trucks. We had about a 75 km drive to the nearest US facility that had a motor pool, and driving there one day, the tire went flat on our carryall van about 25 km down the road. We changed the tire, and went on. We turned the tire in at the motor pool for repair. We got back to the motor pool, and the mechs were standing around laughing. They showed us the reason: a dogs tooth they ahd pulled from the tire. When we got back to the site, we checked the dog, and he had a broken lower incisor.
Scott, be thankful that did not come through the floorboard! What are the odds of that hitting perfect enough to come through the rim? I think it might have been planted.
My worse one was I was sort of off road at the end of a driveway in a yard and many moons ago someone had forgotten a steel garden claw and it was buried about six inches deep. I was up to the rims when I got caught on something and thought it was the mud so I save it more gas ... not the best choice
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The kitchen knife sharpener wins the thread, I think. But I have a good one too, this was almost 15 years ago when I was still living in Buffalo. I was driving through a mall parking lot after a snowstorm had dumped about a foot, and suddenly I heard a thump, thump, thump from the driver's side front tire. I got out and looked and there was a baby stroller wheel stuck to my tire. I pulled it out of the tire and it went SSSSssssss. The wheel must have been laying flat on the ground buried under the snow, axle pointing up, and when I drove over it the axle went right through the tread.
I have had a bunch of flats. Today takes the cake. A razorblade put a 2 inch gash right in the center of my tire this morning. I wonder what the odds are of having that thin blade rest in the right position to go through the tire that way.
So besides nails or screws, what unusual items have caused your flat?
This kid I went to high school with purposefully ran over a raccoon and the bone from the raccoon punctured his tire. I always joked around with him and said it was the raccoons way of getting even.
I ran over what looked like a oil pan drain plug bolt once. worst part was, my factory jack wasnt working very well (at all) and started to lean. then it started to lean more. so, I called AAA and told them to tell the tow truck driver to expedite as my truck was about to fall off the jack. she said "ok, ill tell him you have no tools". well, at this point Im shoving the tire under the truck so if it does fall, all I need is a new rim, and not new brakes, suspension, etc. luckily the jack held and I got the tire changed.
some of the stuff on here is wild.
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6" long hunting knife.......covered in blood. Creeped me and the tire guy out. We looked at each other and knew eactly what the other was thinking. "Is that animal blood or....???"
I got this flat just yesterday afternoon on my way to work. Was traveling on the freeway just about ready to take the offramp. It looks like it is a hardened steel knife sharpener for kitchen carving knives. Obviously, neither the tire or the rim are salvagable. It punched a 1/2" hole through the tire and shot out the alloy rim like a bullet.
Yep, it's knife sharpener, A.K.A. a steel. I used to be a meat cutter so I'm very familiar with these. Never saw one in a tire though.
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I have found a lot of the stuff mentioned here. Personally, a bone one time, recently an S-hook off a bungy cord. I have pulled pieces of wood, metal, glass, pvc pipe, copper, aluminium, out of tires. I used to work at a landfill. Mud on a tire is an excellent lube to make most anything penetrate a tire.
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6" long hunting knife.......covered in blood. Creeped me and the tire guy out. We looked at each other and knew eactly what the other was thinking. "Is that animal blood or....???"
Now it says you is in Texas, but you wasn't on vacation in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles when this happened, was ya?
Now it says you is in Texas, but you wasn't on vacation in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles when this happened, was ya?
No, oddly I was in a high school parking lot in this backwards a$$ed, redneck, crack smokin', town we live in. And coincidentally, Brentwood, is only 2 letters different than where we live, the "e" and the "t".
A short piece of sagebrush while off-roading. Punched right through the tread.
When pulling a trailer on gravel roads, it's a good idea to turn your brake controller way down low. Because the wheels will lock up easily, and dragging a tire on sharp gravel will cut a tire easily. I learned that one the hard way, too.
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. well, at this point Im shoving the tire under the truck so if it does fall, all I need is a new rim, and not new brakes, suspension, etc. luckily the jack held and I got the tire changed. 
