Flat Tire - Unbelievable What Caused It

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Last Tuesday I went "up in the country" to one of my trout fly fishing places. Good paved roads but narrow, out in the mountains. Low tire pressure light came on and before I could stop and check it out the right rear tire went down. Had to stop and put the spare on. Tire ruined. Didn't recall running over anything. I could see the puncture in the tread but couldn't pull what ever it was out with pliers - it kept crumbling. What? Took to tire shop. After getting two new tires, the tech came out and said he had never seen this before. First time he had seen an Animal Bone go through the tire. Asked him what kind. His best guess was leg bone of a raccoon or other such. A first.
 
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Cousin was visiting a few years ago and when leaving she noticed her front tire was flat. I took it off and ran it up to the local garage. The old tire guy came out a few minutes later holding a little white sliver. It was a hollow bird bone. She must have ran over a dead bird and it it the tire just right. Repair guy said he’d seen almost everything in tires but never that. Strange things happen.
 
In the TOLTEC truck stop on Interstate 10 they had one of each, items that had been removed from truck tires. Walls adorned with about anything imaginable. They also had a toy plastic lizard. Asking about it, they said they had a real lizard flatten at truck tire. Seems they had sold the tire the night before, and installed a tube and mounted it on the truck. Problem was, a lizard had taken up residence in the tire and went un-noticed. After about a day the lizard skull had worn a hole in the tube.
 
A while back at a local tire store, saw a deer antler sticking into a tire.
Me? Ran over a spark plug.
The skinny end went in.
The spark gap and threaded end stuck out and got mashed.
Left a hole big enough to stick your finger in it.
AAA Emergency Service Tire Tech - ‘ I can’t plug a hole that big.’
 
Also saw a three point antler in a tire at the shop. Guy said owner's dog brought in home and left it the driveway.

Flat on my bicycle caused by wire from a road alligator.
 
Mine is much more mundane, but I was following a Virginia Power truck, pulling a trailer with a couple of utility poles on it. As I watched a big bolt came off the trailer, bounced on the road a couple of times then went under my Bronco and punctured my rear tire. No room to swerve in the traffic. All I could do was watch that thing bouncing right at me.
 
Mike said:
Friend came to go hunting. Heard his front tire hissing........38 spl hull enbedded in tire up to the rim. Head wore down primer out.......Guess it held air till the primer let go.
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I need to be more careful where I park at the range! :eek:
 
Strangest thing I've pulled out of a tire:
I had the shop door open and heard a thump thump thump coming up the road. A regular customer pulled in saying he picked up something on his right front tire. Sure enough he had...a brake caliper off a 10 speed bicycle! The long threaded post that holds the caliper to the bike fork had punctured his tire and the caliper came along for a ride. I was able to plug it..with 3 Tech tire plugs.

Never leaked..matter of fact I have never had a Tech plug leak..(I've done hundreds of them) and I once put in 6 of them on a glass cut in a ORV/ATV tire. It was almost new when he hit the glass..I patched it with NO guarantees. The guy came back a year later with the tire..now bald..but never lost air.
Great product those Tech plugs.Of course now most tire shops wont even consider doing a repair.
 
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Having a construction company, we had 30 to 40 vehicles in the fleet. About everything conceivable poked holes in tires. I got my first Snap-On wrench after pulling it from a new truck tire. The wrench was rapidly stolen. Once pulled an 18" piece of rebar out of my tire. It had wrapped around the wheel from inside the tire. About the oddest was a slow leak and when found an office staple like you use to staple 2 pieces of paper together had produced the leak. A frost heave at 2 AM in the Yukon Territories took out both of my front tires and bent the rims. Ordered a new Ford pickup in 1972 and was notified it had arrived. On arriving at the dealership to pick it up, the truck had a flat as it was backing off the transport. It had General tires on it from the factory and before they wore out I had 11 flats. I swear those tires would suck a loose nail out of a fence post as I passed by and be impaled.
 
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Mike said:
Friend came to go hunting. Heard his front tire hissing........38 spl hull enbedded in tire up to the rim. Head wore down primer out.......Guess it held air till the primer let go.
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I had an almost similar incident. I had just finished shooting at a local indoor range. I was less than a block away and heard something odd coming from the back wheel well. I pulled over and there was a spent 9mm cartridge embedded in the rear tire, case mouth first. Luckily it hadn't punctured the belt but it took some force to pull it out with my fingers. I figured somebody had dropped a piece of once fired brass in the parking lot and I hit it just right.
 
Strangest thing I've ever found was an entire welding rod in an older gentleman's tire... decent sized entry hole, no other damage, popped tire off the rim and had to scratch my head a bit.
 
When I lived in Ohio I had a piece of shock absorber enter the side wall and exit in the tread
 
Wife managed to collect half of a slip-joint pliers (about 8" long) through a tire sidewall. Not many months later she found a 3/8"X3" bolt, also through the sidewall.

I don't know how she does it. Another one of life's little mysteries.
 
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