Oddest Thing to Flatten Your Tire?

+1. Had the same thing happen when my wife drove a Honda Odyssey. We were coming home from a trip to Orlando, Florida and were less than a mile from our house. Maybe it's not that uncommon afterall.

 

Way back when I used to repair auto's, I once found a pair of side cutters (dykes) inside a flat tire. I still have and use them today. That was in 1988.

 

Oddest thing was this throwing star in my sidewall. later I was molested by a flying Scarecrow!

 

I have been doing tires for a few years, passenger and commercial and have seen some pretty weird things. Commercial tires have some large objects sometimes.

On the list:
A bullet
A syringe
Pliers
Screwdriver
Wheel weights
Scissors
Rebar a few feet long
5 inch diameter rock (the kind trucks drive over on construction sites)
2x4's
Allen wrenches
Jack handles
Brake pads
Drill bits
Razor blades

I am sure there are more but those are what I could think of now.

The weirdest by far was the bullet I pulled out of a passenger car working at Les Schwab.

 

Phillips head screw driver

 

Add in a spark plug ,and a piece of antler.

 

Deer antlers got my uncles combine before

 

Friend had a screw driver, but it was from the inside of the tire. Truck was brand new (chev). Must have been dropped in there in the factory.

 

When I was working in a service station up in Casper Wyo., fixed a flat tire that had a smashed flat tuna can in it, go figure.

 

Got a bolt in one of mine once, approximately 6" long, 1/2" shank, and was thumping off the 3/4" head. Blunt end, but punched it through somehow.

 

Just popped a tire from this past weekends wheelin' trip with this....


Don't ask me how a body mount was just laying around miles away from civilization. A couple tire plugs and I was on my way.

 

Just washed the truck today and noticed a bit of damage around the pinch weld where it got lodge between that and the tire. I'll snap a pic tomorrow.

 

I ran over a mostly buried vw bug chassis once and cut a tire

looked somethin like this but no suspension and mostly under the dirt, was also at the top of a hill climb

 

A pen.

 

I had a 16 penny duplex nail in the tire of a 2002 Sienna I used to have. The double head kept the tire from deflating but it did cause a very slow leak. I kept on filling up the tire and after about a month, the tire light would come on again. I finally broke down and had it examined by my mechanic and he found the nail.

 

Election season in 2004 and I found this razor in my tire. Couldn't be repaired.

 

The better question is HOW was I able to climb hills in a dropped truck.

the answer is, this was in a 86 XJ (Cherokee), not my taco

 

It wasn't on my Taco, but my HET in Afghanistan. I had just replaced the front axle, parts of my Central Tire Inflation System, and my tires. I parked my truck in our staging area to get it ready for mission the next day. I came out to get ready prior to leaving and found a nice bullet hole in my left front steering tire. They had shot over our wall and put a round right in my tire..... While in Iraq in '08, picked up a 50 cal round (still live), still cant figure out how it didnt pop while going down the road. Pushed it in so far that the rim was almost flush with the space between the tread.

 

Oddest thing to flatten my tire......a very angry 64 yr old lady.

 

jeepers creepers!



ive had SOMETHING do this to mine. not sure what...