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Corvette
General Corvette Discussion
Psssssssst.... flat tire!
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<blockquote data-quote="Semis57" data-source="post: 14378" data-attributes="member: 538"><p>I just told my wife last week, to be aware that if she ever gets a flat on the car, she has to call a flatdeck! There's no putting a spare on with these cars. Well it seems "the refrigerator was listening", if you're aware of that saying, because it seems I ran over a roofing nail, lodged in the right rear tire! It was a slow leak, which appeared as a discrepancy on the pressure monitoring system, but never thought much of it- I'll check into it later, I thought, just gotta run over to my bro's. While I was leaving, he was on the passenger side chatting just before I left, looked down at the tire and said- "You've got a nail in your tire". </p><p></p><p>Sure as heck I did, so took it over late Saturday afternoon to Kal Tire. Because it is a speed rated tire, it was quite a process to patch. Everything came off, rim off car, tire off rim, and then a special patch was used, one I'd never seen before, kind of a hybrid plug/patch.</p><p></p><p>The best part of it all, it was a free fix! I was prepared to pay pay pay, but got away lucky.</p><p></p><p>I don't drive the car crazily, but I honestly wondered if the tire would be scrap? I'd never had to patch such a tire and wondered if it was possible. They did it, I don't feel any ill effects, so all is good, but I wondered...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Semis57, post: 14378, member: 538"] I just told my wife last week, to be aware that if she ever gets a flat on the car, she has to call a flatdeck! There's no putting a spare on with these cars. Well it seems "the refrigerator was listening", if you're aware of that saying, because it seems I ran over a roofing nail, lodged in the right rear tire! It was a slow leak, which appeared as a discrepancy on the pressure monitoring system, but never thought much of it- I'll check into it later, I thought, just gotta run over to my bro's. While I was leaving, he was on the passenger side chatting just before I left, looked down at the tire and said- "You've got a nail in your tire". Sure as heck I did, so took it over late Saturday afternoon to Kal Tire. Because it is a speed rated tire, it was quite a process to patch. Everything came off, rim off car, tire off rim, and then a special patch was used, one I'd never seen before, kind of a hybrid plug/patch. The best part of it all, it was a free fix! I was prepared to pay pay pay, but got away lucky. I don't drive the car crazily, but I honestly wondered if the tire would be scrap? I'd never had to patch such a tire and wondered if it was possible. They did it, I don't feel any ill effects, so all is good, but I wondered... [/QUOTE]
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