Originally Posted by
flyromeo3
So I get home this morning and as im exiting my car I hear this loud hissing noise. Now im thinking its the sprinkler system because I see it in. I walk around to the passenger side and I can hear it even louder. Im able to place my finger over the hole which is in the middle of the tire where the tread is.
My question is I know sometimes they are unable to plug or patch a flat if the hole isnt on the tread? Is that true?
I've never really caught a flat tire where I've taken it to the mechanic. I usually use that fix it flat.
Plus I wanted to go to best buy this morning.
Yeah, that sucks. I bent a wheel a week or so ago (hit a not so level cattle grate going about 70).
The tire held air, was able to get home...so I start taking the wheels off, figure I'll have to order one and it's going to be a while so I better throw on the 16" wheels and tires that I used in the winter in Ohio. The first wheel/tire combo I pull out has no air.
A nice nail right in the middle of the tread...must have happened a day or two before I removed the wheel and tire months ago. So it' wasn't exactly a good wheel and tire day for me.
I got the 16" tire repaired (the nail was right in the middle of the tread) and now I'm on those wheels and tires. Gotta order a new wheel now.
I thought it was ironic that I survived with 18" wheels in Ohio...riddled with potholes and I had to move to pothole free Phoenix and I now get a bent wheel.
Sucks...but you should be able to get it repaired cheaply/no cost.