09-11-2024, 11:52 AM
(09-11-2024, 06:43 AM)CCoburn Wrote: I know right, but that wasn't just "a flat tire". That was a 3-to-4-month span of some freak shit. I went from like two flats in twenty years to about one a month. With the places I drive it was definitely an anomaly. Even the dirt roads around here are well kept and I mostly stick to the ones with properties and powerlines.
The one flat a month is in no way an acceptable statistic for me, and to add insult to injury this happens to be the one car that I buy that doesn't come with a spare, but spare or not, flat tires are a real pain in the ass, and something I'd just rather not have to deal with, and most definitely not at the frequency and disadvantage I happened to be at.
They were coming at me from all directions: treads, sidewalls, around the bead, not to mention the one that formed a bubble and had to be replaced. All on the front too. It was anything but typical. I even think someone might've thrown some metal object out their window one night(maybe because I was driving aggressively), and there was a substantial BUMP and an instant TPMS warning.
Anyway, no flats for a few months now (the way life should be), and I'm still using AAA as a fail-safe. I'll probably only have this spareless car for maybe another year, and now it's (4) pages.
I have read a lot of posts here, and I can see that some of us are different people with different circumstances, activities, and perspectives, so I can definitely understand how this might appear trivial to someone else(at face value).
I don't even know what an impact wrench is, but I know someone that does, and I don't get the "mud flaps" thing either. Maybe it has something to do with creating or altering a vector of air/debris flow that has a tendency of disrupting small road hazards in a way that is beneficial to not getting a flat. Not sure what else would make any sense there.
I was just teasin' ya'! I knew it was a lot more than just a flat tire.
