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Jul 28, 2007 | 05:25 AM

Big Swole

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Ouch, that smarts!

As I was driving to work (late). I felt a little bump in the road and a bang come from my right rear (sounded like someone open-handed my truck bed). I thought it was just another rock that my tires threw up. Well Low and behold when I get to work, I see this and my tire is half flat, and loosing air fast. So I went to the gas station and spent a $1.50 to give it some life and limped to the nearest tire store and left it there. They patched it for $20. Made me happy, I have another set of tires but, I like to ride em' till there dead. Estimated damage is $650 from autobody.

1.50 - air
20.00 - patch
+ 650.00 - autobody
= Next time I feel a bump and here a bang, I'm calling in sick.

(The damage was to the back and front of the tire on the bed. The hole was torward the inside of the tire.)

Jul 28, 2007 | 05:29 AM

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I had something like this happen to my mint low mileage 96 Impala SS. Someone in front of me kicked up a chunck of blacktop and it bounced around and i wasnt able to avoid it and it put a nice lil scratch/dent along the bottom of one of my doors. I was absolutely sick, i was ready to kill someone actually. I take this sort of thing very poorly lol. I guess in the end you gotta know this hsits gonna happen eventually and theres nothing you can do about it. Get it fixed the right way and youll soon forget it ever happened.

Jul 28, 2007 | 06:23 AM