Gosh darn dang nammit tires!!!

jon f mn

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• Aug 22, 2014

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This is the 6th puncture in this tire in the last month. These 2 were yesterday and today. Also had a blowout on the trailer yesterday. Hit something and sliced the sidewall of a drive tire a month or so back and since then it's been one after the other, but this one has had 6 punctures in the last few weeks. Anyone else ever had a tire that just seems to pick up everything? I've had that happen before and it kept up til I replaced the tire. All the tires are the same make and model, but this one gets all the stuff in it.

 

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Mike M

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• Aug 22, 2014

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Make a frt. bumper mount for it then maybe it can catch all the junk and keep it out of your other tires ?
Darn thing must have magnetic steel belts ?

 

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gab

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• Aug 22, 2014

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Used to have a 90 Chevy Lumina Eurosport with Goodyear Eagles on it that picked up everything on the road.

 

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Brokenwrench

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• Aug 22, 2014

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Put new tires on my kids car last month. Two tires had zero patches in them. One tire had one patch. The other had four patches. So, there must be truth in the magnetic belts theory... BW

 

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Mike M

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• Aug 22, 2014

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Wonder if Jon should drive around wearing a tin foil hat ? LOL

May not stop the flats but might keep other drivers farther away !

 

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Super Trucker

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• Aug 22, 2014

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YES usually any brand new tire I put on the big truck .With 32 of them I can find EVERYTHING!!!!!

 

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jon f mn

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• Aug 22, 2014

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Don't know what the tinfoil would do for the tires, but I doubt it would get much attention from the rest of the truckers. Saw one last night at the Petro south of Dallas, it used to be the Willy Nelson truck stop, he had a beard, short shorts, flip flops and red toenails. LOL

 

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Alan K

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• Aug 22, 2014

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I think they possibly need to be demagnetized. Ive heard of that before. It is a simple process, of course Im joking.....

 

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notjustair

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• Aug 22, 2014

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I swear it is related to the tread pattern. I had a Ford that had never had a flat since new. I put new tires on it and the flats were constant right up until I put another new set on it. I guess the grip held the nails instead of deflecting them off.

 

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fixerupper

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• Aug 22, 2014

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Slightly softer compound in that tire? Notjustair might have it figured out, tread pattern, but the one you have trouble with probably has the same pattern as the others. It would scare us if we knew about all the junk we drive over that does NOT make a flat.

When my son hauls feed to a newly built hog site he can pretty much plan on getting a construction screw in a tire several times for the next year. By then all the feed trucks that go in and out of there have picked them up in their tires and the problem goes away. Of course the hog company won't pay to fix them. Jim

 

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Billy Shafer

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• Aug 22, 2014

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Is that the old Carl's Corner.

 

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jon f mn

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• Aug 22, 2014

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Yes.

 

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Robert Major

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• Aug 22, 2014

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Hi
One thing I noticed with flats is the amount of wear on the treads. One of my half tons got flats regularly on the gravel roads I drive daily, Tire guy said I'm sick of this change the "something or other" tires!. I did for exact same brand and tread. Monday to Thurs flats that week, Then no more after new tires for about 14 months, then picked a nail lol.
The tandem I drove for the seed plant was the same Tires got down and started picking up the small bits of belt lacing from the conveyors we used.
fixed about 20 flats in a month and told the boss put all new drive rims and tires on this pile. I'm done with these split rims and flats. put brand new one piece rims and tires on no more flats!. He wasn't happy the tires/ rims cost twice what that truck was worth though!. I did kinda tell him the cost of keeping the 1 and only hired hand he had was worth it some days. He then kinda agreed that was cheaper than finding another guy.
Regards Robert

 

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JD Seller

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• Aug 22, 2014

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I will bet that it is the right rear drive tire??? The front flips the nails up and the rear catches them. The out side of the road has more scrap laying there.

 

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jon f mn

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• Aug 22, 2014

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Close, right front.

 

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Unruh

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• Aug 22, 2014

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SIL bought a new Dodge van in their home town 16 miles away. On the way home, they had their first of many flats.

 

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Rollie NE PA

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• Aug 22, 2014

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Part of the problem is that everything (junk)that falls off of traveling vehicles works to the right side of the road because of the crown in the road and along comes Jon and his right side tire picks it up. The tread pattern also plays a role.

 

T in NE

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Location

Cambridge, Nebraska

• Aug 22, 2014

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Goodyear wrangler radials. Flippin go-cart tires. By the time you added up the trips to the co-op for multiple patches every week, you could have bought a new set of good tires and been farther ahead than putting the 2 good ones off the kid"s toyoter on it.

First trip out with new steer tires, I-75 just south of I4, chunk of concrete or something on the road, just about dawn so it was hard to see, cut the sidewall. Packet from the balancing material plugged it long enough to get off the side safely.

 

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Dr. Walt

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• Aug 23, 2014

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Just pass the steel-belted tires through a large degaussing coil. LOL!


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