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<blockquote data-quote="RaptorVA" data-source="post: 1602355" data-attributes="member: 39395"><p>[ATTACH=full]162153[/ATTACH] </p><p></p><p>Well, this picture kind of changes my path on what I will be doing next...I was driving to work the day before yesterday in fog and fairly heavy traffic. I hit something that I didn't even see in the road and my drivers side front tire immediately went flat. I pulled over to the shoulder on an almost blind curve since I had no choice and got off as far to the right as I dared before going into a 3 foot ditch. Since I wasn't far from home and I have never had the spare off and knew that I wasn't getting it out from under the bed very easily, I called my wife to come and get me. Did I mention it was 34 degrees out and the roads were a little wet and traffic was getting heavy? Hazards on and wife pulls up and we head home. I grabbed the best of my four OEM wheels/tires and the floor jack and headed back to the truck. My ass was about 6 inches from the white line for the shoulder and like a NASCAR pit crew I got to work swapping the flatted tire. There is absolutely no damage to the tire which I found extremely strange. I put the tire up in my wife's QX56 with the inner wheel exposed and saw the damage! WTF did I run over that punctured my rim so perfectly? Almost looks like a 5.56 projectile went through it! Nothing rolling around inside the tire at all. No other damage to anything else on the truck. Lucky that the rim didn't explode after that. Needless to say I will be putting all four of the OEM's back on when I get new tires. I have been driving legally since I was 15, so 42 years of driving and I have never seen anything like this. Comments on the carnage and speculations on the "planet alignment" that caused this are solicited and appreciated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RaptorVA, post: 1602355, member: 39395"] [ATTACH=full]162153[/ATTACH] Well, this picture kind of changes my path on what I will be doing next...I was driving to work the day before yesterday in fog and fairly heavy traffic. I hit something that I didn't even see in the road and my drivers side front tire immediately went flat. I pulled over to the shoulder on an almost blind curve since I had no choice and got off as far to the right as I dared before going into a 3 foot ditch. Since I wasn't far from home and I have never had the spare off and knew that I wasn't getting it out from under the bed very easily, I called my wife to come and get me. Did I mention it was 34 degrees out and the roads were a little wet and traffic was getting heavy? Hazards on and wife pulls up and we head home. I grabbed the best of my four OEM wheels/tires and the floor jack and headed back to the truck. My ass was about 6 inches from the white line for the shoulder and like a NASCAR pit crew I got to work swapping the flatted tire. There is absolutely no damage to the tire which I found extremely strange. I put the tire up in my wife's QX56 with the inner wheel exposed and saw the damage! WTF did I run over that punctured my rim so perfectly? Almost looks like a 5.56 projectile went through it! Nothing rolling around inside the tire at all. No other damage to anything else on the truck. Lucky that the rim didn't explode after that. Needless to say I will be putting all four of the OEM's back on when I get new tires. I have been driving legally since I was 15, so 42 years of driving and I have never seen anything like this. Comments on the carnage and speculations on the "planet alignment" that caused this are solicited and appreciated. [/QUOTE]
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