Another nail in the tire😭

[The motor guy]

People wonder why I run my trailer tires down to the steel belts. Brand new tire I just put on this past Saturday already has a nail in it with maybe 200 miles. Everytime like clockwork too. I'm glad someone on here gave me the tip to just pound the plugs in with a deadblow hammer. I forgot who it was though. It happens everytime, it's like all the extra tread picks up the nails and screws

 

[BillyHW]

Sometimes I think the tire repair shops deliberately litter the road with nails and screws to drum up business.

 

[The motor guy]

Sometimes I think the tire repair shops deliberately litter the road with nails and screws to drum up business.

I go through a construction zone where they have people driving in the median where there is yellow diagonal lines. So it's an area where cars don't usually go period unluck a normal median. Who knows, one time time I passed an oversized load on the median and after that I saw I had like 7 nails in at least two tires. All the debris ends up on the sides, or in this case the center of the road.

 

[JeffKeryk]

@The motor guy I picked up a nail near the sidewall, but in the tread, of the perfect Continental tire (with maybe 10K) on our 1st Model 3. Wheel Works (Firestone) charged me like $400 for 1 dang tire. Sheesh.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

slime

 

[Chris142]

Sometimes I think the tire repair shops deliberately litter the road with nails and screws to drum up business.

35 years ago I worked at a pep boys. When we pulled a nail out of a tire it was taken to the desk so the manager could show the customer. After they were gone he would toss it back into the street and tell it to bring us another one.

 

[The motor guy]

@The motor guy I picked up a nail near the sidewall, but in the tread, of the perfect Continental tire (with maybe 10K) on our 1st Model 3. Wheel Works (Firestone) charged me like $400 for 1 dang tire. Sheesh.

Mine are always right in the area where its hit or miss on them fixing it. They generally won't repair a tire that has a nail in any part of outer tread and my nail is always in the space in between the middle tread area and that very outer tread. You always have to go to a independent shop for those. It used to be a thumb width away, but it seems the area where they will repair keeps getting smaller and smaller

 

[The motor guy]

slime

That stuff is only good for a slow 3 or 4 day leak.

 

[The motor guy]

Shout out to 4WD for giving me the deadblow hammer trick

 

[The motor guy]

35 years ago I worked at a pep boys. When we pulled a nail out of a tire it was taken to the desk so the manager could show the customer. After they were gone he would toss it back into the street and tell it to bring us another one.

I always wondered how places like discount tire make enough money only selling tires. Must be quite a markup on them. Then again they do charge like $25/tire to mount and balance them.

 

[ecotourist]

When we move to a new neighbourhood I walk along the streets for the first few days and pick up the nails and screws. There is a mitt full the first couple of days and then it gets hard to find any more. Saves on tire repairs.

 

[LDB]

Not sure why but reading the title I heard Pink Floyd music.

 

[Lubener]

slime

No way will I ever use that junk again. Causes heavy corrosion to the steel rim.

 

[Bailes1992]

When we move to a new neighbourhood I walk along the streets for the first few days and pick up the nails and screws. There is a mitt full the first couple of days and then it gets hard to find any more. Saves on tire repairs.

You write that like you move a lot. Do the neighbours keep driving you out for doing weird things? Like zig-zagging up and down the road for hours on end picking up screws and nails?

 

[ecotourist]

You write that like you move a lot. Do the neighbours keep driving you out for doing weird things? Like zig-zagging up and down the road for hours on end picking up screws and nails?

Due to my education and jobs we've moved a few times. More than we'd like, but maybe a half dozen times in 50 years. Most of the costs were paid by someone else on most occasions. That's a good way to move into nicer and nicer homes over time without the real estate fees.

And we walk a lot. It's good exercise.

 

[bullwinkle]

Due to my education and jobs we've moved a few times. More than we'd like, but maybe a half dozen times in 50 years. Most of the costs were paid by someone else on most occasions. That's a good way to move into nicer and nicer homes over time without the real estate fees.

And we walk a lot. It's good exercise.

Need one of those magnets on a pole. I would have one, but I would be scared of the used needles...

 

[ecotourist]

Need one of those magnets on a pole. I would have one, but I would be scared of the used needles...

Have never run across a used needle on the roads.

 

[f355spider]

I buy my tires from TireRack.com. They include a 2 year road hazard warranty and used it on both my BMWs this year. Both required new tire, and so you order the replacement, get it installed, then apply for the warranty, and they mail you a check. Doesn't cover the labor to mount and balance the new tire (or disposal of the old) but better than the alternative. Saved me $900.

The warranty also covers flat repairs, but I have never bothered for those.

 

[f355spider]

Have never run across a used needle on the roads.

Drive around East Hastings in Vancouver...

I almost ran over one at a Shell station in Seattle....also dodged one at Pike Place Market in Seattle...they are everywhere around here.
Fewer in the past year as fentynal has taken over.

 

[JoeDirt41]

Been tons of nails lately. We're selling out of plug kits at the parts store. Mom picked up a self tapper in her Subaru about a month ago.