I rotated my tires this morning and found this in one of them.
Looks to me like a really small nail. I really wanted to pull it out and see how long it is but given the tire shops around here are closed today and it may be too close to the sidewall for a repair, I figured if there was a leak after pulling it out I'd be up the creek a little, so I didn't.
Given the location I'm guessing that when it comes out I'll be replacing the tire, which means replacing all 4 tires since this is an AWD vehicle and the tires have some miles on them. I think I'm only going to get another 10k miles or so out of these tires anyway so I won't be too heartbroken if I have to replace them over this. Pressures are normal and there's no detectable leak now.
I'm tempted to leave this for a while and monitor pressures but I'm not sure how much risk there is of the thing getting pulled out on its own. What would you do?
Looks to me like a really small nail. I really wanted to pull it out and see how long it is but given the tire shops around here are closed today and it may be too close to the sidewall for a repair, I figured if there was a leak after pulling it out I'd be up the creek a little, so I didn't.
Given the location I'm guessing that when it comes out I'll be replacing the tire, which means replacing all 4 tires since this is an AWD vehicle and the tires have some miles on them. I think I'm only going to get another 10k miles or so out of these tires anyway so I won't be too heartbroken if I have to replace them over this. Pressures are normal and there's no detectable leak now.
I'm tempted to leave this for a while and monitor pressures but I'm not sure how much risk there is of the thing getting pulled out on its own. What would you do?