burtcheca
farmer/cabinetmaker
Somebody pushed a knife into one of my tires last Friday while I was in town at Lowe's. When I got home and got out of the truck I heard the hated sound of an air leak. It was in one of the rear tires, a slash on the side, close to the edge, and the tire was almost empty
. I knew a plug had but a few chances to hold on there but I put one in anyway and stayed there without leaking after I raised the pressure back to 75. Stayed there fine all Saturday and I thought it may hold on until Monday morning that I was going to the tire place in town.
Yesterday, Sunday, I had to drive two hours to a farm south of us and while working there in a tower I built for a 1000 gallons water tank and a wind turbine I heard the plug pop out and the psssssss. I came down and put 2 plugs together and they look like tight and sealed the leak, put the air pressure back in 75 and hit the road back home. I didn't want to change it and put the spare tire until I got home because I discovered some ugly cracks in the spare tire on Friday, so I hoped and prayed the plug will stay there just two more hours. Well to make a long story short, a trip that takes me 2 hours it took me 5 hours because I had to stop 7 times, in every little town on the road home, in the middle of the night, to push in some new plugs and put some more air until I got home.
Today I went shopping for 2 new tires, and boy they are expensive now! The four I had are 235/85R16E Goodyear Wrangler. The tire shop is asking $220 a piece. If I put Firestone $180 each. A Korean brand Nexen was $140 each. All are 10 ply tires, I don't trust the 8 ply Walmart was selling me for $160 each.
Whoever did the damage in my tire, with only 20, 000 miles on it, cost me almost $300 plus 6 hours waisted shopping in town. I only put one new tire. Next week I'll get one more to have the spare changed.
Can you imaging if I catch somebody messing with my truck tires, some other day, in town?
Burt, (you don't want to know what I wanna put here today!).
. I knew a plug had but a few chances to hold on there but I put one in anyway and stayed there without leaking after I raised the pressure back to 75. Stayed there fine all Saturday and I thought it may hold on until Monday morning that I was going to the tire place in town.Yesterday, Sunday, I had to drive two hours to a farm south of us and while working there in a tower I built for a 1000 gallons water tank and a wind turbine I heard the plug pop out and the psssssss. I came down and put 2 plugs together and they look like tight and sealed the leak, put the air pressure back in 75 and hit the road back home. I didn't want to change it and put the spare tire until I got home because I discovered some ugly cracks in the spare tire on Friday, so I hoped and prayed the plug will stay there just two more hours. Well to make a long story short, a trip that takes me 2 hours it took me 5 hours because I had to stop 7 times, in every little town on the road home, in the middle of the night, to push in some new plugs and put some more air until I got home.
Today I went shopping for 2 new tires, and boy they are expensive now! The four I had are 235/85R16E Goodyear Wrangler. The tire shop is asking $220 a piece. If I put Firestone $180 each. A Korean brand Nexen was $140 each. All are 10 ply tires, I don't trust the 8 ply Walmart was selling me for $160 each.
Whoever did the damage in my tire, with only 20, 000 miles on it, cost me almost $300 plus 6 hours waisted shopping in town. I only put one new tire. Next week I'll get one more to have the spare changed.
Can you imaging if I catch somebody messing with my truck tires, some other day, in town?
Burt, (you don't want to know what I wanna put here today!).
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