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How often do you have a flat tire or tires?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:08 pm
A lot of factors, so if you are an average driver, not off-road or construction, etc.. How often?
I had gone years without a flat or leak. Driving habits are no different. Seems like it was one every few weeks, but over the last 6 months had 3 tires with nails, glass shards. Purchased 4 new tires and now have 2 with nails/slow leaks.
Wife has had 3 tires go down with nails/glass in the same time period.
I’ve pressured washed the driveway and blow it off regularly.
I’m convinced it’s the dead beat white trash neighbors whom I’ve had words with many times. Wife says I’m schizo and says we just run over the shite on the roads.
8 tires in 6 months. Gotta be the neighbors right?
I had gone years without a flat or leak. Driving habits are no different. Seems like it was one every few weeks, but over the last 6 months had 3 tires with nails, glass shards. Purchased 4 new tires and now have 2 with nails/slow leaks.
Wife has had 3 tires go down with nails/glass in the same time period.
I’ve pressured washed the driveway and blow it off regularly.
I’m convinced it’s the dead beat white trash neighbors whom I’ve had words with many times. Wife says I’m schizo and says we just run over the shite on the roads.
8 tires in 6 months. Gotta be the neighbors right?
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Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:09 pm to RentToOwn
Likely somewhere you drive everyday. Walk the neighborhood.
This post was edited on 4/9/25 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:10 pm to RentToOwn
Put up a camera.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:13 pm to RentToOwn
I usually go years without them, or I have 2-3 in 6 months.
A couple years ago I had a 6 inch wrench go through my tire (It was almost entirely inside my tire), and a couple months later got a screwdriver thru another tire. It was like I was collecting a toolbox. I wasn't even driving through construction areas. Think it was just some bizarre coincidence that a truck I was driving behind dropped those tools at the exact right time.
A couple years ago I had a 6 inch wrench go through my tire (It was almost entirely inside my tire), and a couple months later got a screwdriver thru another tire. It was like I was collecting a toolbox. I wasn't even driving through construction areas. Think it was just some bizarre coincidence that a truck I was driving behind dropped those tools at the exact right time.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:15 pm to RentToOwn
Two in the last 1.5 years. Last one before that was nearly 10 years ago
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:16 pm to RentToOwn
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8 tires in 6 months.
You're plugging these and not buying a new tire every time you get a nail, right?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:16 pm to Neauxla_Tiger
Gotta be something up cause that’s not normal unless you’re in construction/junk yards a lot.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:20 pm to RentToOwn
Two in the last two years, but not much prior to that. I think it's because there is a lot of construction in my area lately and not a lot of enforcement about trailer/hauling/tarping.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:20 pm to RentToOwn
I haven't had one in a pickup in probably 15 years or longer.
My wife hits curbs all the time and runs over nails and screws. She doesn't even drive 50 miles a week, but gets at least 6 flats a year.
My wife hits curbs all the time and runs over nails and screws. She doesn't even drive 50 miles a week, but gets at least 6 flats a year.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:21 pm to RentToOwn
Discount Tire will fix flats for free. Had to go there four times in about two weeks due to some construction near our house.
Just had to go there the other day for a leaky valve stem, totally free. Even if you didn't buy the tires from them.
Just had to go there the other day for a leaky valve stem, totally free. Even if you didn't buy the tires from them.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:24 pm to Saintsisit
quote:Had a spate of them across all the family cars. Some were run flats…gotta replace them every time. Others were in the sidewalk. It was rough on the wallet.
You're plugging these and not buying a new tire every time you get a nail, right?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:24 pm to Saintsisit
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You're plugging these and not buying a new tire every time you get a nail, right?
Yeah plugging them. I know it happens but a pain in the arse when you come to expect it often
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:25 pm to Stonehog
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Discount Tire will fix flats for free.
Good to know. Thanks
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:26 pm to RentToOwn
you get flat tires from glass?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:30 pm to RentToOwn
I'm pulling a nail out of and patching a tire every six months or so.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:32 pm to boxcarbarney
Not often. 10ply mud tires on my truck
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:32 pm to RentToOwn
Hardly any, but my Mario kart driving wife manages several a year somehow banging curbs and driving half in the shoulder
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:34 pm to RentToOwn
I definitely had more in Louisiana. Combination of bad roads, people littering more, bad suspension, trashy people.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:36 pm to Dawgfanman
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Likely somewhere you drive everyday. Walk the neighborhood.
I do this often and I have picked up so many nails and screws I can’t count. I remember going behind garbage trucks that left around 20-30 large nails in a small area on the street. Some of it is construction but some people don’t dispose of things properly.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 3:37 pm to RentToOwn
I’ll bet I haven’t had two flats in the last decade. I drive a heck of a lot of miles some years between personal vehicle and work vehicle.
I see no rhyme or reason to when I get them.
I see no rhyme or reason to when I get them.
This post was edited on 4/9/25 at 3:39 pm
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