How do you not know?
 

That the tire is flat as a pancake while pulling out of the driveway.

Or when you start driving down the street.

Or as you turn into the next street.

Why don't you notice till half way down that street.

And when you finally do notice something is seriously f'd up do you drive it back?

All that does is burn the tire so now instead of patching the flat we need a whole new frikkin tire.

My wife is really frikken smart but sometimes she really tries to convince me otherwise.

Rant off.

That's not too serious. Why didn't you fix it before she left?

Ideally some of us walk around the car to make sure tires are inflated before driving off. Last winter I was coming down my back lane and 50 yards from home the tire went flat. The old snow tire was really old anyway. Tire wall destroyed. Replaced both rear tires on the Porsche and back to normal. Way back my daughter comes home in the Nissan Xtrail suv from univ. Drives about 3 miles home with a flat tire. No damage to tire and reinflated it after removing nail and fixing it. Go figure.

A lot depends on the age of the tire. From what I see the longer you drive on an old tire the wall gets destroyed. Newer maybe can handle it. Maybe a bit of luck too.
Guy

At this point in your post, I kinda figured you were talking about Mrs. Stomachmonkey... 'Cause Mrs. Z-man would have done the same thing!

SmileWavy

-Z

The annoying part is she's going to need new tires soon, like in 3-4 months, so it does not pay to buy just 1 at this point.

No one even stocks the Pirreli's she has on there right now.

Really irritated.

I know how far she got because when I left to drop the boy at school you could see the drag marks on the street right up to where she hung a u-turn to head back home.

She parked it in the street and when I moved it to the drive to swap on the spare you could feel and hear it instantly.

I cringed the 15 feet pulling into the driveway.

Tire? Bah, peanuts.

Wait til she drives on the rim on the freeway for two miles so the only thing the rim is good for is scrap aluminium and it's a limited production factory wheel, and you can't get find a replacement without going to the steeler and paying $1500 for one so you end up replacing all 4 with aftermarket wheels.
For $1600.
Plus mouting and balancing.
Plus the cost of the new tire.

Grocery shopping.

Twice in 1 week....women in front of me attempted to place the conveyor divider behind her groceries.

Both times it landed half on and half off (hung up on the side).

FAIL.

Why?

They did not care. Didn't even give it another thought - just dropped it behind the groceries - in helter-skelter fashion.

Not picking on females because there are plenty of males that are oblivious as well.

Just an observation and commentary, FWIW.

mine still does...
upside..
she does inform me what those lights tell her these days..
service means service...
in years past they just glowed until something didn't work..
visiting me @NCO Acad. having driven my Z..
I noticed the alt. light on..
how long I inquired..
how long what..

Rika

The low profile tires one my 944's came with on 17's, one night I went to make a right turn and found the tail just wanted to keep going straight. The tire didn't have visible signs that it was low, but it had about 6PSI in it.

Funny you should mention this. I drove off in my Trooper the other day and heard a whump, whump. Pulled into a gas station and checked the tires, Left rear was at 10psi. The tire looks like its inflated to over 30. These are large sidewalls as well.

Last big ticket item, I get in her car and pull out of the drive, apply brakes and holy hell what's that noise:eek:

She's says, yeah it's been doing that for a couple of weeks, was going to mention it to you.

I asked her if she was having trouble stopping the car:confused:

She said "yeah, it's not been great lately"

Hmm, about as long as it's been making that noise?:rolleyes:

"yeah, that's about right"

And it did not occur to you the two issues were related, as in the brake pads are worn completely off and what you are hearing is the brake rotor being gouged out like the f'n grand canyon?:mad:

I parked on the side of our winding driveway a few mos ago, half in the mulch leaving plenty of room for her to get past. She goes out to get her haircut and it crosses my mind to say something, but c'mon it's a freaking Land Rover sitting there, you can't not see it. She comes home later and points out the long scrape/dent from rubbing against my plastic rear wheel arch. Wondered what that noise was but didn't stop to find out (and limit the damage to her car, mine was ok)

I can still remember doing a brake job at the service station I worked at in the 70's. A cream colored '68 Fairlane came in on a hook. The woman had driven it metal to metal for so long that a caliper piston had worn completely through one side of the disc and had become wedged in the middle, locking the wheel.
Jim

X3, in the last year, in my world. Includes cars with TPMS...

JR

Just remember it's your fault and it's not about the nail.

I wouldn't be so hard on your wife. She's humane after all.

run flat tires..........

only tire I will allow on my bride's ride.........

The vehicle I put my wife in has to be bullet and bomb proof, and "female" proof.

I watched a lady in a big Mercedes suv yesterday do a u turnin the middle of a curve of a highly congested local road, when she saw me coming around the bend she floored it... hit the curb hard. ...I heard it and my windows were up with a/c on. ...
Not the smartest. .

The answer to the question is another question, asked by the lady.

"How much can a stupid tire cost, anyway?"

That's what was going through her head as she drove it back.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1409102409.jpg

This is not the worst I have seen. Just like stated above, I have seen them driven through the rotor, pads, and the caliper piston until it finally spit out, and either lost brakes completely, or wedged into the caliper bracket, and locked the wheel up .
The above photo was from a dude, and not a female.

Honey, my car is making a funny noise and it doesn't go very well anymore. Can you take a look at it?

What's that? no .... I don't think I ran over anything. At least I don't remember doing that.


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1409153100.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1409153110.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1409153119.jpg

But .... some men are worse than women.
In my yoot i worked at a gas station.
A guy came in saying the engine on his toyota was making funny noices.
I opened the hood and saw part of a terry cloth towel stuffed into the hole on the valve cover where the oil cap normally would reside. (aka 710 cap).
I say PART of a towel because the rest of it had been injested into the engine and was wrapped around the cam and rockers.

There was no oil on the dipstick either, not even oil residue. But there was a little bit of lint on it.

My wife has shown me twice she can tell when the tire pressure is down by 5 lbs. ('06 Jetta with 15" wheels). She will say something like, "It's not handling right. There might be a tire low on air."
Both times it has been down 5 lbs. :D
Farm girl.

Best
Les

Not sure how far the wife dragged my battery tender ..........
It is out there somewhere ........

Ever see someone use an air wrench trying to INSTALL (not even remove) an oil filter? I have - kid at a shop while the wife's car was getting a new battery. After destroying about 5 or 6 oil filters the kid finally gave up and asked for help. I was equal parts horrified and LMAO as I watched this through the window between the garage / service area and the store where I was standing. Register guy asked if I wanted them to install the battery for me and I just pointed to the garage and said absolutely not I think I can manage!

I remember once seeing a woman drive down Ventura Blvd in a newish MB with a flat right front tire. She was doing about 30 mph--fast enough that I couldn't even flag her down from the sidewalk.

I eventually made my way to my car, and found her finally stopped on the side of the road about 3/4 of a mile down from where she had originally passed by me.

Ventura Highway, in the sunshine?
Where the days are longer and the nights are stronger than moonshine?

I don't know either, it just happens.

This forum beats the Comedy Channel! :D

Fiance and I went truck shopping....for her. I picked out a nice 3 year old F-150.
Her: It's not big enough.

I picked out a nice Tacoma.
Her: It's not big enough.

I picked out a nice Silverado.
Her: It's not big enough.
Me: You pick.
Her: I like this one (Tundra dual cab with 8 ft bed).
Me: It's too big, you'll never be able to get it in your driveway, and I can't even get in the cab without a ladder.
Her: I'm getting it.

Two years later, before we could trade it in on a slightly smaller Sierra, I had to paint all 4 corners of the bumpers where she had run over things.

My BMW had iDrive, a sound system w/Sirius, hands free phone, a navigation system... I barely knew I had a car under me, let alone tires.

THAT is extraordinary! The fact that he could even drive it to your shop is almost unbelievable. :confused:

He can drive....he just can't stop so great.

This really is your fault, my man. Not that hard to check pads on a regular basis, i.e. every 3 months or every oil change etc. and never let it get that far. It is not annoyance but your family's safety that depends on you checking the brakes. I keep track of all my vehicles brake pad wear (just by checking regularly) and change them early. Most all cars can be checked with a flashlight without jacking the car up.

If you do your own brakes, it is a big plus to buy the pads at AutoZone. They have lifetime warranty on pads (WTF!!??), so bringing them back early won't hurt your pocket book. AAMOF, if you run them to the metal, the warranty is voided.

On the tires, well, buy tire monitors if you have a <2008. The new cars now all have mandatory idiot lights coming on, so problem solved. I think that was a very good idea.

Cheers,

G

Just file this away, man.

File it away for the next time that you don't notice her new shoes/hair/dress/nails/... ;)

That ball of stuff around that driveshaft in the photo that sammy posted is an alien egg pod.

I agree. :D :D :D

This thread and the other one SM started... something like "Conversations with my wife" ...are very "Sticky Worthy."

If there's anyone here who has never called the mods "poopyhead," please send a PM and plead the case.

They don't need to be stickies forever... but they'd be golden for a good long while, IMO.

Daughters Mini has tyre pressure monitors built in. , but that didnt stop her running with both front tyres way underinflated as she had never in 2 years ownership even thought to check tyre pressures-the lesson cost her two new runflat tyres which would easily have lasted two further years had they been run at correct pressures.
Wife drove home 10 miles from work in ery heavy traffic,on a very hot day, in her Fiat with the overheating warning light on, and then mentioned to me that a light was on on the dash that she'd never seen before? Which one-can't remember. Its really a miracle that the engine ran at all to get her home as by the time she entered the driveway it needed a new(used replacement) cylinder head and 4 new pistons, on an engine that had only done 60,000 miles, and had been serviced by the book.

"...in her Fiat with the overheating warning light on..."
.
So, did/does she like the Fiat, otherwise?
What model/color?

In her defense (or to my embarrassment), I can see it with modern suspensions and modern tires that have such strong sidewalls that you can drive them blissfully unaware. I ruined a Boxster tire once because it picked up a nail and I had no clue (rear), the car felt 100% normal and I was doing freeway speeds - no issue at all, rock stable. By the time someone flagged me over it was ruined and the goop was useless because the sidewall was so damaged. On the flip side, I had a quick deflation on a michelin Super sport (front) and I could tell immediately, that thing is made of bubble gum. It can happen on a modern car... conversely, if I drive my early 912 I can tell you if any corner is 2 psi low ;-)