I THINK the neighbors cut my tire.

you should have a jack in your car... unless you planned on walking home or calling for help in the event of a flat
if its been sitting there all this time after pumping it up and not totally flat yet, theres no way someone slashed your tire.. you have a slow leak somewhere

"Should" being the operative word there. The previous owner took out the jack and the lug-wrench before he sold it, and I failed to check before I bought it. If I can't find one in the back of the house, I'm gonna see if my roommate has one.

I wouldn't exactly call it a slow leak. It went halfway flat just sitting in place for 4 hours.

I can relate to that story, a few year's back @ the Firestone store, they displayed all 4 tires that the woman who was a victim of a massive nail dumping on the road. Bear in mind the tires didn't go flat on her as she drove the car into the tire store. But there were so many nails in the tires that pulling each one out would've taken forever and there was no guarantee that patching the holes or even plugging them that the tires would've been serviceable. I had never seen so many nails in all 4 tires in my entire life, it was like a whole box of them had been dumped and spread over the roadway.

Yep, any of these rural southern towns, high concentrations of construction people. Back in the early 90's, I worked for a guy that sub contracted for Sears as a vinyl siding worker. We had to pull all kinds of nailed materials off the sides of houses in Jax, FL and load it into a flatbed trailer to take to the dump. I don't doubt some of that somehow made it onto the roads. I'm not built for siding and roofing work, it takes a special individual to do that kind of work on a day to day basis for a living.

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Originally Posted by ManlyBanisters Then you'd be aware that the vast, vast, VAST majority of the world, even the 'first' world, does not live in areas with security guards looking out for their stuff.

As usual you are correct. Hopefully, he will soon be exposed to the real world and learn from it, without being hurt.

Such a funny mental image that gives me.

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Stapled - If it was foul play, hopefully someone just let the air via the valve. Or maybe you had something stuck in the tire that was kind of sealing it's own puncture, if you know what I mean, but this time when you parked it got moved about. That has happened to me before. A nail, for example, in the tyre can sometimes not leak for a while.

I used to be a receptionist at a steel mill. There were sometimes shards of sharp metal and nails in the parking lot. It was a small family run operation and the owner always sprang for the repair or replacement of any tire damaged on site.


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Unless his neighbors planned to drive him crazy with a slow leak.

tee hee hee Stranger things have happend.

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He will have to look for any suspicious people carrying pin cushions.

If it is foul play, an ice pick is more likely.

For that I usually keep some of those tar plugs and plugging tool that you can buy @ Discount Auto for about $ 5 in the event it's a nail. Service stations usually try to get you to patch them for $ 15 or more, they've even raised plugging them to $ 7-8 to discourage plugging. The do it yourselfer kit isn't bad for a nail if it isn't a huge railroad spike sized nail.

To be honest, I had a patch done once during the FL rainy season. You hit a puddle of water and water doesn't compress so the force actually hits the hole and forces it's way in and works the patch free. That patch lasted about 2-3 weeks. With that particular tire, I put a plug in that didn't last but about 2-3 weeks and finally I used an inner tube that got me down the road another month before it finally blew. I think I put another $ 30-40 into the tire, before eventually replacing the entire set. I drive about 300+ miles a week so 1,200 more miles on low tread tires before replacing the whole set.

hahah.. what a bastard...never heard of that one before, that sucks

Shit!
This was just a fistful of nails. Of the ten people that worked there, only 3 caught nails (two caught 1 each and one caught 2). We think somebody was pissed at the cops, because they were laid out where cops often parked in the afternoon to watch for speeders.

Probably just used them on a car other than his own and forgot to put them back.

If I can find the leak, I'll probably just plug it myself for the time being, atleast until I can afford to replace the tire.

StapledShut...at least you know your cock is the biggest on the block...sorry to hear about the tires...hope you have no other trouble

We live in a country where burglars have tripped upon climbing through the windows of houses and hurt themselves and somehow made a case to sue the homeowner for some kind of negligence.

Anyway about that tire...4 hours, that is not too bad. I could drive accross country on that.

Pep Boys once failed to seat one tire on my 72 cutlass improperly. You could hear it leaking.

It didn't show signs of leaking at first, so I hopped on the freeway and drove 150 miles to San Diego.

In the morning it was flat.

We had AAA fill it up and they attempted to seal it. It didn't work. We ended up stopping every 40 miles or so on the way back. I guess I should have been patient and found a Pep Boys in SD...oh well I wanted to leave.

That car didn't have a jack either. And the spare was a bias ply Kelly Springfield from 1972.

sorry

Pull the tire off, air it up, and squirt soapy water all over it....look for the bubbles blowing up. There's your leak. If it's in the tread, you can get it patched. If it's in the sidewall, you're fucked.



How many big dicks does it take to fix a flat tire?

Sorry, I couldn't pass that up. Hope you don't have any more troubles man. If it was your neighbor, maybe you can get lucky enough that the dumbass didn't use a locking blade knife. Look for the missing fingers.

Slow is relative, but 4 hours is considered slow. It's slow enough that you could drive on it a bit without changing it.

Neighbors did it vs. a random nail got stuck in it? I think this is a case of Occam's razor. I bet you just have a nail stuck in the tire, so the air is only coming out slowly, or it was a very thin nail that is not stuck there anymore. It would seem hard for a human to create a hole that only leaked slowly.

I always carry a plug kit and a pump that plugs into the lighter with me. Doing that in the case of a flat is faster than actually changing the tire.

Whatever you do, don't try to staple shut your tire.