When Did You Last Have A Flat Tire

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by jhynesrockmtn

My son had two flats in a remote part of Idaho with his family aboard. He was doing 60mph and hit a board with nails in it that was obscured on the edge of the road.

The fact that that's a Ford Explorer isn't lost on me!

Edit. I just put the glasses on. So, the fact that that's the bigger brother to the Explorer isn't as coincidental.

[ckcarr]

I never get flats.

Except, back in April I had a friend visit and we went way out into the desert in my Jeep. Drinking a few beers. So we stopped to pee, and when I turned off the engine I heard this noise like a bunch of cicadas trying to come out of the ground. I looked all over for insects, until finally I realized it was my left rear BF Goodrich All Terrain tire hissing away. A sharp rock had ripped through it.

No worries, have a spare, until I started looking for the jack.

Every new Jeep I buy has the Jack hidden in a different place. This only took 30 minutes to find, hidden under a rear plastic roof nut holder...

Tire could not be fixed so they said, so that was $250 I didn't need to spend..

[GH85Carrera]

Time flies, but I think it was under two years ago. A large nail right on the edge of the tire. I noticed it while in my garage. I aired it up to 40 PSI, and drove to the local tire shop. It was too far to the sidewall to save the tire, so I have one tire of the same brand and style that is newer than the others. When I got home, I moved it to the right rear.

With the limited slip on the El Camino in a tight right hand turn, like at a stop sign turning right if I hit the gas much the inside tire has to rotate at the same speed as the outside tire, and since it is going less distance it has to spin and it wears faster. Left turns are almost always wider angle turns and no issues. It is a not a major increase in wear, but it is usually down to the wear bar at the same time as the front tires. The left rear usually has tread left, but I get a set of four tires.

[ted]

I've had more issues with belts separating.
2 years ago had a screw in my DD tire that I was able to fix in my garage with a plug.

Had a belt start to separate on the front tire of the crew cab dually create a little vibration through the steering wheel.
100 miles later the front tire let go.

More than once I found a belt separated on a trailer tire a week before taking the race car trailer out.

Had a flat on the back tire of the race car at the track fortunately felt something wrong before blasting the roval at 170mph again.
I may have cut the tire on something when I cut across an un-swept apron on the track.
That's why we always bring 8 tires to the track.

[Otter74]

I've had to get a couple of leaks repaired on my JSW in the year and a half I've had it, and I got a flat in it driving home from work last summer, going past downtown Chicago on the Dan Ryan. Fortunately I was 100m from a large pullout where I could safely change the tire. This was the first flat I'd gotten in probably a decade.

[Tobra]

Last time I had a flat tire was shortly after finishing my residency. I was living in Houston on $800 a month. Not enough to spring for new tires, hence I was rolling on used. Got a flat about the time I started making a bit of money. Was changing the tire on the side of the 105 right outside of Conroe TX. 5 different people stopped to offer to help, last guy offered a beer, from the cooler right behind the driver's seat in the pick up bed. I was on the side of the road maybe 15 minutes.

When I moved to California, there was this time when traffic was all backed up at this intersection. At the front of the line was a car with the hood up. This was in June, about 108* but a dry heat, which is about the stupidest thing people say out loud on a regular basis. I pull into a gas station and walk over to find out what the deal was. The lady had a dead battery, on her way to buy a new one. I get ready to push her, and some other guy runs up to help. We get her pushed into the gas station. She had jumper cables, so he hopped into his car, with Oklahoma plates, and split. Turns out this lady was sitting there for hours, nobody stopped to help her but me and some Okie. This is what I think about when people talk trash about Texas.

[GH85Carrera]

There was a major highway construction project that lasted about two years, and there was no logical option but to drive through it to get to work. I was having about 6 flats per year. One of the things I love about my El Camino, every single flat was in my own garage. No doubt I picked up a nail leaving work, and it would go flat overnight. I just used the convenient floor jack, and impact wrench and put on the spare, and dropped off the tire, and went to pick it up at lunch time.

It got to the point that I picked up a used wheel and had the best of the old worn out tires mounted on it when I replaced all 4 because they were worn out. So I had a "spare, spare tire" and did not have to dig out the spare behind the seat. I bet I had 10 or so flats in two years. Each one was a nail or screw that was fairly new.

After the construction was done, my regular flats stopped. I still have the spare, spare in my storage building but the tire is a bit dry rotted. I need to have it dismounted and disposed of..

I always though it was very nice of the Elky to have a flat, right in my own garage and not on some remote spot. It has been nice enough to have a dead battery right in my garage as well, where I had two spare cars to take me to get a new battery.

[911 Rod]

2 rear flats on my 996TT at highway speeds in the last 5 years.
Both times the tire was destroyed.
First one I had to buy all 4 and the second one was just the rear 2.
Those tires were not cheap!

[Eric Hahl]

3 in the last 8 months

[Deschodt]

way too often and rarely patchable... LAst one was the best, a bolt with nut attached went thru a very new tire, and the tire had just gone out of stock so I had to buy 2 of the new model to match the axle... $650 for the trouble... no hazard - will reconsider that in the future.
It's more often than not the right rear, dirty road side.

[masraum]

I've had lots and lots of slow leaks due to nails, drywall screws, etc....

I think I've only ever had one instant flat while on the road. I hadn't had the boxster long, and hit something (man hole, or something like that) that pinched the sidewall and gave me a pretty much instant flat. That sucked since the boxster has no spare, and by the time I found the hole in the sidewall, I'd already tried using the goop. I replaced the goop, but would be pretty unlikely to ever use it again. I used to carry a tire plug kit in my cars, although I was always able to wait until I got home to do the plugging. I should probably get a tire plug kit and jack and jack stands now that I'm in BFE my myself 4-5 days a week.

[Pazuzu]

Several times a year. The Pilot PS4 tires on the rear of the 911 were sticky nail magnets, I would pick one up 2 or 3 times a year in 6-8K miles.

The new job in an industrial zone means I've had 3 or 4 in the past year in the pickup (thank god it ended up coming with a barely used full sized spare), and probably 4 or 5 co-workers have had at least one.

[livi]

Once. Some thirty years ago. Porsche 924.

[ckelly78z]

This March, we were pulling into our vacation cabin in West Virginia. I got out of my diesel Excursion, and thought there was a natural gas leak...nope...it was my RR tire that I had just ran over a sharp stone that went straight through the tread.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Several times a year. The Pilot PS4 tires on the rear of the 911 were sticky nail magnets, I would pick one up 2 or 3 times a year in 6-8K miles.

The new job in an industrial zone means I've had 3 or 4 in the past year in the pickup (thank god it ended up coming with a barely used full sized spare), and probably 4 or 5 co-workers have had at least one.

Do they actually go flat on you? I've picked up lots of nails in my 26 years in Houston. I've rarely actually had a flat. I usually end up with a slow leak that I notice that a tire is low before I've got a flat.

[widebody911]

I had a flat on my M3 spring of last year - just before all the Covid stuff hit. I had it fixed, but since the tires were getting a little long in the tooth anyway, I ordered 2 new ones. Then everything hit the fan and I never actually mounted them.

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by masraum

Do they actually go flat on you? I've picked up lots of nails in my 26 years in Houston. I've rarely actually had a flat. I usually end up with a slow leak that I notice that a tire is low before I've got a flat.

Noted. I've not had a complete flat or lost tread or anything like that since, well, as long as I can remember. Yes, I tend to wear tires down to the bone instead of replacing them because of damage.