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After getting the vaccine exhaust all together yesterday afternoon I took the car for a long drive once things cooled off a bit… Supercup sounds great and car ran very well. All was fine until I got home and heard a suspicious hissing as I pulled in the garage.
The Michelin Pilot Sports on the car are about five years old but have a lot of tread life left so I wasn’t planning on new tires for another year or so. But it turns out there was about an inch long section of razor blade embedded in the drivers side rear tire. Now I’m not opposed to plugging up and running a tire but this is about an inch long cut in the tire and pretty sure that it isn’t fixable. Only thing I can think of is the front tire flipped it up and back tire caught it just perfectly to press it in. Given the rate it was losing air it must have happened just in the last mile from home. Threw a tire pump on it to keep it from going completely flat while I got the car up and sitting on blocks in the garage. Really glad it didn’t happen out in the middle of nowhere.
So now my dilemma is to just get an inexpensive tire to throw on and drive it for a while or just go ahead and pull the trigger on new rubber all around. It looks like folks here like both the Pilot Sports and Continental Extreme Contact.
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