Oddest Thing to Flatten Your Tire?

Nails and screws are too common. What is the weirdest thing you discovered that pierced your tire?

After a long drive in my old F-150, I stepped out and noticed the disappointing "hiss" sound of a deflating tire. When I finally found the tire that was leaking, I saw an allen wrench poking out. After I got my plug kit ready, I pulled it out and put in the plug. Somehow it happened that the long end of an 8mm allen wrench decided its new home was my BFG A/T.

 

Nothing weird, but it did involve nails.



I got three flats, all the front driver's side tire within 2 weeks. They were all from nails. Those are the only flats I've ever gotten in my 6 years of driving.

 

iv have a triangular piece about 3" long of 1/8" thick metal stuck in a tire...whats weird is that the tip was on the outside and the fat part was in the tire....what else was weird is it would not pull out through the tread but I had to pull it out from dismounting the tire...dont ask me I have no clue how/what/why or anything

 

From working in a tire shop for about 7 years i seen alot..weirdest things was a set of keys, a usb cable, and a piece of broken blade from a snowplow. We also had a small piece of fencepost stuck thru the tire and out the other side of the rim

 

A piece of wood right through the side tread

 

^Whoa really? Never seen that happen before...

 

I have had the occasional nail or allen wrench, especially after Katrina. But by far the oddest would be either a mangled fork or a length of 3 inch thick telephone line with the copper exposed.

 

Pulled a key out of my tire one time.

 

not my truck, but another florida member picked up a railroad spike in his tire on one of our wheeling trips......and there is no railroad near where we were wheeling

 

Pulled a used spark plug out of one of my tires once.

 

Log...

 

A piece of rock from a gravel road about the size & shape of that RR spike posted above.

 

Worked in a tire shop for a few months, I'd say the weirdest thing I saw was a nickle.

 

This....... piece of a metal file stuck in my sidewall, only had the truck 2 weeks when it happened

 

Not too odd but a stick through the sidewall and a sharp rock right through the meatiest part of the tread on my Duratracs.

 

A pair of scissors that went in backwards with the handle portion in the inside sidewall of the tire.

And a military issue knife with no handle.

 

My buddy had a lawnmower key wedged in his tire. It took an hour to get that darned key out!

 

Umm, does bleach and a heavy right foot count?

 

I found a screw driver in my wife's tire, picked it up on I-35.

 

only flat i got was in the scion xb pulling into the drug store to pick up some allergy meds. the pull in(lowered part on the side walk to meet the road) was busted a little and busted the side wall on front right tire.

had a stick go in an atv tire, lol. stupid 2 ply tires!!!