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I was tooling along in the boxster and hit a bad spot in the road man hole that was about 3" elevated over the surface, I think. It's not unusual around here. Less than a block later, my TPMS alerted me to being 11psi low and 17psi low by the time I found a place to pull off. I used the Porsche supplied goo and inflator. The inflator couldn't get much over 29psi. I think the problem is that the inside of the sidewall got pinched and cut. I was fairly close to home, never got over 30mph, but by the time I got home I was at 12 psi.

Without the TPMS, I probably wouldn't have noticed until I was much farther from home.

Fortunately, when I bought the car, I bought their tire and wheel protection. I've got free tires (if damaged or puntured) and repaired or replaced wheels, for the next 5 years.

Kind of sucks that it didn't happen during the day on Fri instead of later afternoon on Sat. I guess I'll be doing the mad dash to get it on a flatbed and to the dealer early Mon morning.