"Future next gen S2000 owner" (future-next-gen-s2000-owner)
05/17/2016 at 13:56 • Filed to: legit or no?
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"Future next gen S2000 owner" (future-next-gen-s2000-owner)
05/17/2016 at 13:56 • Filed to: legit or no? | 1
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After skimming Tom’s article on the FP which lead to a TorqueNews link about run flats and repairs, it got me thinking about my last flat tire.
Driving home one day, the car starts pulling and acting funny but still capable of being driven at speed. This happens for a minute or two until I can get the car over to the side of the road. Check the tire, it is flat. Fine. Change to the spare and carry on.
I bring in the tire to get it patched. This isn’t a major sidewall blow out, it is a screw in a tread block. The tire shop tells me I can’t get it fixed because I drove on it while flat and I damage the inner structure. Since there are little rubber bits and pieces on the inside of it they won’t patch it.
Fine. So I take the tire back and try another shop. Same story.
Am I crazy or is this complete bs?
Mustang in it’s natural state for your time.
WiscoProud
> Future next gen S2000 owner
05/17/2016 at 14:05 |
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Since you took it to two separate places and got the same response, my gut tells me its probably true. Your second opinion corroborated the first.
jariten1781
> Future next gen S2000 owner
05/17/2016 at 14:07 |
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Depends on how flat it was. If you’re down to nothing the tire’s got to go, just down 10 or so lbs and you can plug it. In between it’s case by case. Most tire shops won’t touch them if there’s visible degradation, no matter how slight or superficial, to the sidewall out of perceived liability. I've also had shops refuse to patch just wanting a sale...places like gas stations who don't have tire sales are more likely to patch since they can't upsell...
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> Future next gen S2000 owner
05/17/2016 at 14:10 |
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Not BS. Your rim has a sharp edge and the tire’s only meant to bend so far while spinning at up to 7000ish RPMs. If it was all the way flat, the rim would have eaten the sidewal or just it being bent and strtetched repeatedly could break down the steel belts within it.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Future next gen S2000 owner
05/17/2016 at 14:16 |
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That GIF: so much stupid.
MUSASHI66
> Future next gen S2000 owner
05/17/2016 at 14:18 |
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If you don’t trust them, patch kit is like $6 or so at autozone. But, if experts don’t think it is safe, I don’t think I would do it - unless they are just covering their asses.
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SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/17/2016 at 14:22 |
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Tire flatness and tire pressure have an inverse relationship. It doesn’t take much.
Invinciblejets
> Future next gen S2000 owner
05/17/2016 at 14:24 |
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Not BS at all.
Just get a new tire.
Dave the car guy , still here
> WiscoProud
05/17/2016 at 14:39 |
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If the tire is full of ground rubber its been driven too far on the flat. Its not a question of the tire holding air and driving down the road for a little while. The shop isn’t concerned that somebody can’t afford a new tire on that day and want to get a few more months or years out of a tire. Its often an issue of liability these days. When that tire fails at 60+ mph and somebody is injured or dies, the family can sue. The lawsuits for negligence against Walmart for $18m in 2013 and $14.4m against Mossy Ford in 2011 have every shop afraid to repair anything that could be questionable.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
05/17/2016 at 14:47 |
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Do you think that the rear tire pressure on the Mustang wasn’t equal and it caused him to go sideways?
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SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/17/2016 at 14:57 |
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Probably. He should have used a digital gague.
PartyPooper2012
> Future next gen S2000 owner
05/17/2016 at 15:23 |
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when you pulled over, did the tire have any air left to keep the rim off the ground by means of somewhat inflated tire - not just rubber? if yes, it can be patched. if not, you probably damaged the tire to a point of no return
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Scott
> Future next gen S2000 owner
05/17/2016 at 15:28 |
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Never had a tire shop refuse to fix a puncture. I have had tires that gave way so completely I would not expect them to, but I’ve had small leaks and a few nails all the way through the tire. All I can imagine is either a local law where you are that prohibits that, or you talked too much about what happened and they jumped to conclusions that you drove around with a flat for a long time. Sometimes with shops the less you say the better.
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Future next gen S2000 owner
> PartyPooper2012
05/17/2016 at 15:34 |
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I don’t think there was any air left but the sidewall was stiff enough to keep the rim off of the ground. There could have been some air in it but I didn’t check with a gauge.
vicali
> Future next gen S2000 owner
05/17/2016 at 16:18 |
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Not bs, happened to me as well, got a flat, pulled into nearest parking lot ~40ft maybe. Changed to spare - three garages wouldn’t touch it.
The kicker was this was a Subaru so 4 new tires were in order.
AMGtech - now with more recalls!
> Future next gen S2000 owner
05/17/2016 at 16:27 |
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Happens all the time. Sidewalls get damaged from low pressure much easier than you would think. Also, run-flat ties are not generally considered repairable at all. There’s a mythbusters episode where they test tires at excessive pressure and low pressure to see which will fail first. Low pressure every time because it puts more stress on sidewalls and causes them to heat up quite a bit which then weakens them even more and long before a tire blows up it will no longer be repairable.