Flats, flats... more flats!!!

Tripper · Sep 29, 2012

Well I haven't really had a flat for quite a while but all that caught up with me Thurs & Fri. On Thurs I rode my bicycle up to the office & when I came outside it had a flat. Ok... luckily someone gave me a ride home. Later that afternoon 2 morons in a van ran me off the road & as luck would have it... right where they forced me off... the curb was broken & had a big spike of crete & punched a big hole in the tire & bent my tie rod. On Fri I was gonna take the panel to Galveston but my wife said to take her car instead! When I got back... the panel had a flat on it... a trifecta! Hope that clears me for another couple years now!!!

BoB

Neverdone · Sep 29, 2012

Been having similar luck lately with my tandem trailer. The last three times I have pulled it I have blown at least one tire each time. I should just pull the last one off cut a hole in it an patch it. Maybe it will save me some time and frustration.

Sam_Fear · Sep 29, 2012

Is it roofing season in Texas?

Snake Farm · Sep 29, 2012

Yeah I think it's going around. Last weekend the wife and I were coming home from the hospital after our Grandson was born and hit something on the Interstate and cut the sidewall out of the right rear.

Nothing like changing a tire beside the Interstate at 3:30 AM

Just got back from the tire shop where we ordered a set of four......been four years since we got tires for her Jeep and man they're just givin'em away aren't they

donsrods · Sep 29, 2012

When the economy was good there was a real construction boom here in Florida, and the problem was the roads were littered with roofing nails, drywall screws, and lots of other stuff the worker's trucks would drop on the roads. No joke, you would pick up a nail or two every couple of weeks.

That problem went away with the economy, but about a month ago I was driving to the shop and heard an explosion in my left rear wheelwell. I just kept driving so I could look at it at the shop. As I was pulling in a guy at the AAA in my row of buildings yelled "Hey, you have a flat tire."

I got out my trusty plugging kit but when I tried to air up the tire air was coming out faster than I could put it in. Turns out the inside wall of the tire had a huge gash in it from some road debris..........I think it must have been from an accident and they didn't get it all cleaned up. So I had to buy a new set of tires as they were getting some miles on them anyway.

A little while later my Son Don had exactly the same thing happen on his SUV, ripped the sidewall out, but is tires were brand new, so it cost him $ 140. And just last week we had to remove a drywall screw from Dan's pickup tire and plug it.

Hate when that kind of stuff happens.

Don