How many flat tires do you get?

[East Bay Mike]

I drive around 20k mikes a year in my car and I work in construction so I’m driving near the job site sometimes but not on the job site.

Since this one job I’ve been at I’ve had 3 flat tires in just over 6 months, plus a defective tire that had a bubble on the side-wall pop up (maybe I hit a curb?).

Usually I may have a tire incident once a year at the most, but this year has been pretty unlucky. This year I’m getting a tire fixed/replaced more often than I change my oil. Thank goodness I got the warranty. Paid for itself quick!

 

[MrIncredible]

Quite a few after I found night shift asleep and lying about their production numbers thereby making the inventory numbers all screwy.

Yes guys, I have to fire you for that.

They gave me six flats over the course of a week.

 

[Abacinator]

I decline to answer due to the high probability of getting one by mentioning it :laughing

 

[Climber]

Sounds like you're a good candidate to pay the extra for tire coverage. :laughing

 

[Shaggy]

I decline to answer due to the high probability of getting one by mentioning it :laughing

Seriously!

Karma is preventing me from answering this question. :laughing

 

[Bay Arean]

I agree with Nick.

But I will say that it seems to run in streaks, where, over the course of two years, I had two drywall screws, a big machine screw and a nail in the sidewall. Then a long patch of nothing like that.

When it happens so much, you feel like it's some kind of twisted conspiracy by tire dealers to sell product but that's ridiculous. Then there is my drunken contractor theory, where some yahoo is driving around with tailgate down and open boxes and buckets of tire-puncturing hardware bouncing out the back. Not intentional just careless. Probably just as ridiculous but with actual rolling examples on the road now and then.

 

[Blankpage]

At the last job I got three flats in a year on the left front. 2 of the 3 were on the way home after work, the most annoying time to get a flat.

 

[ejv]

Hmm since starting driving in 1995 I think I have had one blowout and picked up a nail two other times where the tires didn't go flat but were slowly losing air.

On the Moto once in my own rear tire I picked up a roofing staple causing a slow loss of air while riding in an obviously little used carpool lane with a lot of rubbish toward the outside of the lane.

Earlier this year while playing around with my friend's Ninja 400 I picked up a huge nail in the rear tire. Didn't notice till the next time I rode it. Shout out to GP Sports in SJ for having a replacement in stock and getting me in to have the new tire mounted in about 90 minutes late on a Saturday.

But I don't drive much anymore. Maybe 8-10K miles a year cage and Moto combined and then maybe another 5-6K a year in my work vehicle. When I was in college I made a loop from home to school to work and back home which was about 100 miles. One year I did about 28K miles. That's about when I had the blowout.

 

[Abacinator]

One of my customers had 4 flat tires in 2 weeks. Turns out she was driving past the Sufism Reoriented construction site every day. We told her to stop going that way :laughing

 

[cfives]

I read this thread last night, and came out to a motorcycle with a flat rear tire this morning. Coincidence, I think not!

 

[DReg350]

Not too many. 1 or 2 every 5 years or so. Had a couple blowouts in the RV over a 20 year period. 1 monster nail in motorcycle tire once. The ebikes are whole nother story. Friggin goat heads SUCK! Flat after flat after flat. Finally moved to heavy super thick tubes and Tuffy tire liners. No more flats.

My buddies in construction get several each and every month. Most of the time they pick them up at the dump while dropping a load.

 

[bojangle]

I've had a few, including one while riding a motorcycle. I managed to stay upright. I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[East Bay Mike]

I decline to answer due to the high probability of getting one by mentioning it :laughing

Interesting. This makes me more curious if you’ve had low or high amounts of flat tires.

Sounds like you're a good candidate to pay the extra for tire coverage. :laughing

Oh yea. Still cost $33 to get the tire replaced today. The bolt was too thick, looked like at least a quarter inch gauge. Was a semi-slow leaker. Leaked about 8psi over a 24 hour period which I am grateful for compared to that blowout I had a few months ago...sounded like a gunshot.

 

[East Bay Mike]

Seriously!

Karma is preventing me from answering this question. :laughing

You suck.

I agree with Nick.

But I will say that it seems to run in streaks, where, over the course of two years, I had two drywall screws, a big machine screw and a nail in the sidewall. Then a long patch of nothing like that.

When it happens so much, you feel like it's some kind of twisted conspiracy by tire dealers to sell product but that's ridiculous. Then there is my drunken contractor theory, where some yahoo is driving around with tailgate down and open boxes and buckets of tire-puncturing hardware bouncing out the back. Not intentional just careless. Probably just as ridiculous but with actual rolling examples on the road now and then.

You also suck but at least you gave an idea of your experience. And I’d agree. Streaky for sure.

Want good karma? Next time you see a screw or nail in a parking lot or on the street when you’re walking, pick it up and dispose of it.

 

[East Bay Mike]

At the last job I got three flats in a year on the left front. 2 of the 3 were on the way home after work, the most annoying time to get a flat.

Yea mine tend have occurred mostly on the way to work, so at least I could put the mini tire on before it’s time to commute home. Stopping on a freeway in certain spots would absolutely suck and I have been in that scenario yet.

Hmm since starting driving in 1995 I think I have had one blowout and picked up a nail two other times where the tires didn't go flat but were slowly losing air.

On the Moto once in my own rear tire I picked up a roofing staple causing a slow loss of air while riding in an obviously little used carpool lane with a lot of rubbish toward the outside of the lane.

Earlier this year while playing around with my friend's Ninja 400 I picked up a huge nail in the rear tire. Didn't notice till the next time I rode it. Shout out to GP Sports in SJ for having a replacement in stock and getting me in to have the new tire mounted in about 90 minutes late on a Saturday.

But I don't drive much anymore. Maybe 8-10K miles a year cage and Moto combined and then maybe another 5-6K a year in my work vehicle. When I was in college I made a loop from home to school to work and back home which was about 100 miles. One year I did about 28K miles. That's about when I had the blowout.

Sounds normal.

 

[Izzy_C]

Plenty on my bicycle...

Been riding cycles (with motors) for 4 years and got some stuff stuck in ma tires but nothing to make a flat.

0 in my truck so far (since April this year)

 

[Sharky]

I get 2-4 punctures per year on my bike and 1-2 in my cars.
I'm pretty proficient in plugging tires now and carry a pump and plug kit on my bike!

 

[East Bay Mike]

One of my customers had 4 flat tires in 2 weeks. Turns out she was driving past the Sufism Reoriented construction site every day. We told her to stop going that way :laughing

Yea, about 5 years ago I drove by a hospital construction site and got a quick flat. Never drove on that street again until the job was complete.

I read this thread last night, and came out to a motorcycle with a flat rear tire this morning. Coincidence, I think not!

:laughing

 

[littlebeast]

I drive around 20k mikes a year in my car and I work in construction so I’m driving near the job site sometimes but not on the job site.

Since this one job I’ve been at I’ve had 3 flat tires in just over 6 months, plus a defective tire that had a bubble on the side-wall pop up (maybe I hit a curb?).

Usually I may have a tire incident once a year at the most, but this year has been pretty unlucky. This year I’m getting a tire fixed/replaced more often than I change my oil. Thank goodness I got the warranty. Paid for itself quick!

all my tires are super sticky - and collect road debris with monotonous regularity. have had it happen twice with tires with >50 miles on them. :rolleyes

not only are those fuckers sticky, they are (due to their speed rating) not reparable, and they are stupid expensive to replace. and it’s almost worse if it happens even moderately deep into their wear - as you can’t replace one - you have to replace both, and sometimes all four sides for a single failure.

that said - no matter what you have under the hood, tires are the gods of the road. and you absolutely must pay to play. :nchantr

 

[ctwo]

"(maybe I hit a curb?)" How is that a question?

I've had a few, including one while riding a motorcycle. I managed to stay upright. I wouldn't recommend it.

Yeah, I hit the off-ramp at 60 and found out my rear tire had gone soft from a nail. I once parked in Santa Cruz on a side-street and later found my tires low - pumped them up and they din't leak.

This thread reminded me of the airline passenger who asked the flight attendant, how often do these planes crash...? :laughing