Tonight I found this in my tyre...

DannyDan

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This thing is massive and blunt-ended, so I have no idea how it managed to penetrate the tyre :confused: Starting to wonder whether it had purposely been stuck upright to the road. It's so long that I'm worried about whether it might have damage the rim too.

I'm guessing that a puncture of this size isn't repairable (the diameter of the bolt must be about 0.75cm)? That'll be £400 down the drain for 2 new tyres :(
 
bloody hell thats impressive, you can repair the tyre but if they are £200 to start with I wouldn't bother, keep the other good one though never know when you might need it in the future :)
 
mglover070588 said:
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I knew that sentence wasn't quite right when I was writing it :o

touch said:
Surely not? I would have thought if you were intending to damage tyres you would use something a bit sharper?
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True, I just have no idea how something like this could go from lying flat on the road to being embedded in a tyre.

amigafan2003 said:
It damaged both tyres? That's a long bolt!
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It might aswell have, there's no way I'm driving around with tyres of different tread depths on the same axel.
 
DannyDan said:
This thing is massive and blunt-ended, so I have no idea how it managed to penetrate the tyre :confused: (
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Its unlikely. I was only a tyre fitter for a couple of years but in that time I pulled out loads of stuff like that including spanners and screwdrivers. Even found a rock the size of my fist in one of my own tyres. You often look at the tyre and see a tiny hole but once you take it off the wheel you realise its something huge.
 
DannyDan said:
It might aswell have, there's no way I'm driving around with tyres of different tread depths on the same axel.
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Yeah, because that would be lethal! :confused:

Unless the non damaged tyre is under 3mm then they'd both be due replacement anyway.
 
I managed to get a key (as in a normal house key) stuck in a rear tyre once. The only explanation I managed to think of was that the front drove over it, flipped it, and it landed at a perfect angle and time that it somehow managed to put itself into the rear tyre.

I think something similar hapened here as well, although the odds of getting all that "timing" right are indeed... slim if I may say so.
 
Its when you see a screw top poking out, sometimes its one thats sheared off somewhere and just flicks out, other times you unscrew them and hear the hissing :(

I've known people to leave them in as its plugging the hole its made, rather get it removed and repaired personally!
 
Benihana said:
I've known people to leave them in as its plugging the hole its made, rather get it removed and repaired personally!
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Couldn't have left this one in, the head is so big that the car was pretty much undriveable.

Runflats though so atleast I can drive to the tyre fitters :rolleyes:
 
DannyDan said:
Couldn't have left this one in, the head is so big that the car was pretty much undriveable.

Runflats though so atleast I can drive to the tyre fitters :rolleyes:
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Yeah, in that case I'd be changing both of them too, even if they still had 6mm left on them.
 
I've missed if it has been posted, but I bet it was the rear tyre? If so it can be explained ny the front tyre going over it and 'flicking' it up. Usually at the perfect angle to penetrate thefollowing rear tyre.
 
I had an allen key stuck in one of mine once, which I thought was huge, but my god that is massive.
 
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