KevCarver
Senior Member
- First Name
- Kevin
- Joined
- Feb 6, 2017
- Threads
- 10
- Messages
- 77
- Reaction score
- 28
- Location
- Knoxville, TN
- Vehicle(s)
- '22 Civic Si
Honestly, it was a bit unprecedented for me as well! The first 2 were in 2021, about 6 months apart, and the 3rd was this year. I do park my car in an industrial yard, but these were so spread out in distance that it's unrelated. The blowout was obviously potholes, and the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back, sort of thing. No idea what I ran over to put such a huge cut in it, and the nail wasn't anything typically to be found at a diesel repair facility. I park at a Ryder Truck Lease location and swap the car for a box truck. It was also 3 different tires in 3 different positions.While I have a Canadian Si with the spare I really want the flat repair kit instead. I have had the kits on other cars and I like them. My argument has always been that I prefer to fix a flat and get on the road quicker, rather than changing a tire on the side of a busy highway and risk being killed. My other argument has been that in over 2 million kms of driving commercially and personally I have never had a blowout or a tire go flat fast enough to cause me to pull over. I've had many slow leaks and nails in tires, but never a sudden blowout or flat, and never sidewalls cut.
I guess your experience blows my theory out of the water though with 3 flats in such a short period of time . You my friend definitely need a spare tire, do you live near a construction site or metal recycling company lol.
I've had 2 commercial blowouts in over 25 years of work. First time I was in the left lane, put my signal on to return to the right, and right as I looked in the right mirror I saw the rear outside tire explode! Second time I was braking to a stop in town, as soon as I came to a halt I heard a pop and the sound of air escaping. At my next delivery I found one tire was flat. Finished the day on it, too!
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