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Flat tire ? and hazard information


joey b

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I had the oddest occurrance tonight. I left my house and everything seemed fine, although my car seemed a bit sluggish. I drove about half mile to the expressway and drove 75 for 7 miles. It then becomes apparent that something is odd here. I take the next exit and pull up to the gas station, and sure enough, my tire is FLAT. I filled it with air and it seemed to hold it decently well, but the walls are so broken down that it shakes like a mofo. 3 hours after I left the bar it was still holding air and drove it out of downtown so I wouldn't get ticketed.

 

Is it possible that I had a flat tire and drove 8 miles at 75 and it did not come loose from the rim and straight burn up? I'm so confused as to how I could drive and it go flat, yet still hold air. :shrug:

 

Will I be able to cash in on the road hazard for this tire? It's obviously apparent that I drove on this thing for a bit. The walls are all broken down and what not.

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Driving 8 miles on a flat tire like that doesnt surprise me. My friend (she doesnt know much about cars in general at all) drive something like 20 miles on a flat tire, even though she knew it was flat, she just has places to be and that thing was liek melted to the hub. I couldnt get the rim off. But the tire was flat and still secure on the rim.

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The way our road hazzard warranty works on that is if we find something that made the tire flat....bead leak, nail, something to show that you didn't just bleed all of the air out and drive on it to get a new tire. We will warranty the tire out. This is however our personal company policy, which I'm sure varies from one to another.

 

You should be able to get it warrantied though.

 

Driving long enough on a flat, or very low tire actually melts the sidewalls of the tire. When you air it back up, you can see the tire bubbling out, like a tumor in the sidewall. Sometimes if the tire wasn't run very long, or very low, the sidewall will have a smooth spot all the way around where it was riding on the sidewall and smoothed it out.

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The rear tires on "W" bodies are a problem.

They can have real low pressure and not show it.

 

Yeah, no doubt! Last time I checked my tire pressure, the drivers side rear was sitting at like 26 psi, and still looked "fuller" than the front tires.

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the tire was flat this morning and when filled goitered like crazy. They found a puncture and the "mechanic" was being a dick, like "it isn't going to be covered because it could have been fixed but you drove on it." I'm pretty sure though that it went flat WHILE I was driving it. I really don't think it would have held up to that speed and distance if it were flat. The guy in charge said he would have to talk to the owner and they had to order the tire anyway. If they don't cover it I'll be so pissed. I've been going there for a year now and plenty of people ask me where to so and I always send them there. I guess we'll see.

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