What is the strangest thing you have found inside a flat tire? While driving around town I seen a 1/2x9/16 the wrench on the road.Before I could stop and pick it up I had ran over it and sure enough it had punctured a tire. Of course I didn`t know the size untill I changed the tire.
i changed a tire for a customer who had a bad leak....same deal. wrench on the inside and a big hole on the outside....
Saw virtually the exact same thing several years ago on a buddy's flat and could barely believe my eyes!..haven't told the story much before now because it sounds like BS..............truth is stranger than fiction. Thanks for the post. Ray
DO NOT! Run your hand around the inside of a tire, I found a real sharp piece of glass stuck inside one once.
I was driving along one day, and i felt a wierd wobble in the ass end. Then a pop! and eveything was fine. Pulled over, and the tread had come off my $10 dollar white wall radials, but it was still holding air. Needless to say, i didnt try my luck
Friends of ours had owned an auto repair shop/tire store for decades until just recently. Good people. Their display room in front had loads of awesome automobilia. One of the items of interest was an old tin box that sat on the counter. Every odd thing that they ever found stuck in tires was in that box. It actually became two boxes, 'cause there was so much. You wouldn't believe the stuff...bolts, plastic toys, pieces of wood...anything you could think of and then some. And yes...a wrench or two.
When I was sixteen I learned a lesson about why to never for any reason run your bare hand inside a tire,My uncle owned an old GULF gas station,one of the local guys brought a flat tire in to be fixed,one of the old pickup truck wheels with tube in tire,My uncle told his helper to fix it and so he did,this was about 9:30 in the morning,guy came back at noon ,paid,got tire and left.about 2:30 my Uncles helper was filling a customers car up with gas and he just collapsed,Uncles station was right in town so medical care got there pretty fast.My Uncles helper was dead.Later it was determined that he died of RATTLESNAKE VENON.The local guy failed to tell anybody he had ran over a rattler the previous day.Shit like that you never forget.
When I was in Highschool I worked at a tire store, About once a month dudes would bring in a two man tire and we would get sent on break while the boss "fixed" it. I allways thought it was strange that it wasn't flat an the boss who wouldn't touch a tire other wise had to do that one. Yea I'm kinda dumb
I repair all my own tires. The weirdest ever, a spark plug went into the tire by the firing end. Millions of nails,a few railroad spikes and alot of misc metal fragments.
In the early 70's I ran the tire shop on an Air Force base. Tons of nails, railroad spikes and about every thing else, but in 8 months We never found a piece of glass. Kinda strange I thought.
The friend that owns the shop down the street from me told me this, Guy brought in a tire with a slow leak. Tire had a loaded 308 round in it and had been riding on the primer but never went off. talk about luck. I have pulled hypodermic needles out of the tires on the ranch from when we work cows.
I had a tire with a good tread wear a hole from the inside out.When I took it off there were a pair of angle cutters (dykes) in there.Must have been bouncing in there for a year cause that is how long it was since I got the tires mounted.
The thigh bone of a jack rabbit. I guess the guy ran over one, and the legbone pierced the tire. Broke off on the outside, and the internal air pressure pushed all the marrow out of the legbone and the tire gradually went flat.
When I was 17 I worked at a full service Chevron station, yes I know this just dated me, and I was asked by a customer to fix a tire with a slow leak . So I unmounted it and found a nail in it but while I was checking for other hole found a deck of Camel cigarettes in there unopened . Being that I smoked at the time I thought , unwisely, what the hell and sparked one up . Lets just say if I put one of my old work socks in my mouth the taste it would have left would have been better!! On another occasion a customer complain of a click and bump on the left front so I look at that tire, and find a bone about a half inch thick and the size of a hockey puck on flat outside the tire. When I opened that tire the bone had a sharp point on it about the size of my baby finger that tire was trashed , no plug big enough. Still makes me laugh now, Rob.
3 gallons of muddy mess in a tire once. about 10 bottom ends of valve stems in another. And the kicker, cell phone.
I had a customer bring in a tire that went flat on her. This was on Monday and she said she had bought it on Saturday from the shop i worked at until i opened my own. The owner of that shop had told her to come to my shop and get me to put a tire on for her for free and me and him would settle up later. Well, she knew he was a crook with out me having to tell her so she never even attempted to get me to give her a tire. She just said she would pay me and she would settle up with him. well, i noticed the tire seemd a lil heavier than usual. I broke it down and it had 2 brick sized pieces of ice my former co-workers had left in there. Aparently when she had got up to highway speed, on sunday, the two chunks had basically beat the hell out of the inside of her tire. And it was really muddy to boot. Later i asked one of the guys at the shop she bought it from about it, he said the owner (crook) had told him to take it off a car that was on their lot for a motor swap. He said it was full of water when he got it and the owner saw him slooshing it out and jumped on him about wasting time. So he put it on full of water, over night it got cold enough to freeze and the next morning when she went to church it was flat when she came back out after the service. Well needless to say she was extremely pissed at the old shop, now she is a loyal customer to me. LOL. Funny thing is she called him on sunday to see if Thomas (me) could come change it for her, i had been the one that did all his service work and she didnt know i had left. She said then that he nearly jumped down her throat at the mention of my name. What a prick.
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