It’s good to know some basic car stuff.
 

Okay. Today I had a flat tire on a major highway. Total air loss. I limp it safely to the gore point between the highway and an off-ramp. Not ideal. A CHP officer was on me fast. She flipped on her lights and asked me to back up into the wider section for added safety. Okay. I moved. I complied.

She cracked my lugs! And despite my factory Jack’s best efforts to murder me, I get it done. I thank her and she spots me back into traffic.

( I go buy some fishing lures)

I then went to the tire shop I just bought my new Coopers at. He says he can fix it. I proceed to get on a conference call for work. The guy does his thing and mouths, “no charge”. I back out leave, unbeknownst to me, my RAYBAN sunglasses slip off the roof onto the roadway and get smashed into a billion pieces. and yes I did a upturn to go look for them and I saw the sad carnage. I manage to finish up my phone meeting without screaming profanities.

At the office typing note, I get the tingly spydie sense thing. I got out look at the tire. I find the leak spot The dude simply stuffed a temporary plug in it! I go to my own regular shop and they try to patch it. Nope. My rim shredded the interior. The tire was a goner. The next flat, next week, next month would have been spectacular. You know it; I would have been doing 80 next to a big rig full of live chickens.

I am so glad I checked. I knew enough that a competent shop would have inspected the tire for damage.

I dodged one Despite my lost favorite rayban wayfarers and the need to buy a single new tire. I think I dodge one. Some basic car knowledge is a good thing.

Now? I’m sitting on the couch sipping a beer while wearing a helmet. Just in case something like a nut falls off an airplane.

Oh the CHP lady puts that sticker , the yellow one on my tail-light. This, Despite the fact that I was actively changing the tire and moving on. You all seen the same sticker on abandoned cars roadside. Well, I think GORILLA GLUE makes that sticker. My tail-light is covered in leftover sticker. She laughed, blushed, and apologized while trying to peel it off.

Argh. Whatever she was cute, and she did crack loose my lug nuts. :). WD-40 time.


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1604541499.jpg

pics?

or are they on Penthouse Letters?

Why the sticker if your next to the car?

Any pictures?


Of her, not you!

Glad to hear it all will work out safely in the end. FWIW, I recently had a comprehensive tire failure at 70 mph on the left rear in the minivan--fully loaded as we were coming back from Big Bear. I wiggled a wee bit, and I just gently shepherded it off the next offramp. The tire looked like one of those experimental no-air tires being researched by Michelin--totally shredded. Mrs Noah and I had the rear unpacked (and it was packed), spare tire pumped up and swapped, and all luggage/bikes back in place in half-an-hour.

Cute cop chick cracked my nuts.....:D

First aid for the shaving knick? That is service.

Yeah why the sticker? That’s bull crap, you were changing the tire.

The only thing that would have been better (and more spectacular) is to be passing a construction zone with fresh tar.

25 years ago when I bought my 911 I got it 100 miles home from Tulsa, OK where I bought it. I noticed the next morning one tire was really low. So I aired it up and drove to work, knowing there is a major family owned tire shop a few blocks from work. At lunch time I ran over there.

He used a floor jack on the side jack point. Yea, they had a Porsche jack pad. He removed the aluminum lugs with a hand pull handle, and they dismounted the tire, patched the hole on the inside, and TORQUED the lugs with a torque wrench. All no charge.

I wrote them a nice analog letter. They mailed me a nice jacket with the company logo on it. I was real sad when the family sold to a big tire chain.

Vash, I was at a convenience store & gas station a couple of years ago getting gas for my car. I was next to a 18 year old or so kid screaming into his cell phone "DAD, you HAVE to come change my tire now!" My dad would have just laughed and told me to walk if I asked him to change my tire for me.

I left long before the tire was changed. I don't think I have even been that helpless sine I got to double digit age.

Not sure how I could have dragged myself away from that drama. I would have gone in to get a soda and nachos.

She cracked his lugs? What?
The lady cop changed his tire?

Why do you assume you'd have a blow out?
The plug would have either held or done a slow leak.
You'd have seen a low tire, or woken up to a flat tire.

Exciting tire blow outs are TV

The tire was cut thru by the rim on the outside.

It wasn't about the plug, it was about the damage to the inside of the tire itself that would cause a weak, possibly hot spot that would be more likely to fail catastrophically.

anybody else notice the avoidance of a vashian thread title, such as "She cracked my nuts!"?