Before Michelin steel belted radials became available in the US, I’d get a flat every year or two. But it’s been at least 10 years since my last flat.

Question:
How long has it been since you’ve had a flat tire?

Choices:
6 months
1 year
2 years
5 years
At least 10 years

 

I haven't had a flat tire since I stopped using aluminum rims.

Not a flat, but have had 4 punctures since I got this car. 1 required a new tire, the others were patchable.

Also, car doesn't have a spare.

Jinx thread alert! Everyone who votes will get a flat this week! But anywho, I haven't had a flat yet in my 16 years of driving, but wife has had 2 I believe.

ETA I cant vote because I've never had one.

The last actual flat tire I had, where I had to pull over and change it, was in 2008. Since then I have picked up nails and had to repair them, but I caught them (either by seeing them or losing air), and the tires didn't go flat.

I kind of expect V-Tail to post about a flat tire on his S35 Bonanza.

I had one about a year ago. Found the tire flat in the garage when I went to leave. Bought a plug kit. Dang it was hard to get that plug into the tire. I ended up pulling the tire off to do it, and even then had to rig up a lever to push the plug into place. BTW, the plug has worked flawlessly for the past year, and this is a high-performance car.

I've had a few slow leaks and fixable punctures, but I haven't needed to change a flat tire on the side of the road in well over 10 years.

Two years ago I had a catastrophic failure of a relatively new tire on I-71. It was the rear passenger tire.

Two weeks later another catastrophic failure front drivers side, going 55 mph on a country highway.

I don't remember the model, but they were Goodyear tires.


Funny thing, three years prior, in almost the same location on I-71, I had a catastrophic failure of a Yokohama tire.

I always keep and check for the proper air pressure, and I always buy quality tires.

ARman

In the middle of nowhere Alaska i had a shredded tire on my trailer, took more time to fix the break wires than change the tire, all done on the side if the road

I seem to have a flat every other year on IH35.

I get a sharp something in a tire at least once every year or two.

I voted "at least 10 years," but it's been over five and closer to ten. Might be over ten.

It was a spike through the edge of the tread and through the sidewall.

In the snow, slush and cold. It was not amusing.

Went out to go to town in the Tundra a year or so ago noticed it was sitting funny. Flat on right rear, no idea why.

6 months or so ago, drove friends Murano to pick up some groceries for them and had a flat on the way to the store. Got to looking at the other tires and you could darn near see the air. Advised them it was time for new sneakers...

The closest I've come to actually having to CHANGE a flat was 6 years ago, when I noted the low-pressure alarm, checked the tire & limped a few miles down to the tire shop. They pulled out a cluster of FIVE long 8pwt nails in one cluster about 3" diameter. Repaired it successfully.

I've had a ton of 'low pressure' alerts, & had to air-up from compressor a few times. The last I actually had to jack it up & put the spare on my rig, was circa 1976.

Between two cars I've had five puncture flats in the last three years.

Last month I got a low tire alert on my Honda Passport. I slammed some air in it and went to the tire shop as I was due for a rotation anyway. They found a nail embedded and patched.

Two days later, I got another alert on the same tire. I assumed I got a bad patch job and headed back To the tire shop. They found another nail.

On a side note, a guy I worked with lives on about 5 miles of gravel road. A few years ago a contractor dumped a case of roofing nails off the back of his flatbed. Needless to say, the whole area had flat tires for a long time.

I haven't had a flat tire in over thirty years, I have had slow leaks though.

I had a flat tire on my work Explorer this summer. We change our own. I forget what I had run over, but it was an immediate flat. Took an act of congress (and a 22 year old workout-nut rookie) to get one of the lug nuts to break loose.

I've got a nail in a Jeep tire right now. Need to get it plugged but I've assed around.

I've probably had four or five tires plugged in the last 5 years between my and the wife's vehicles.

NOPE, not gonna jinx myself by answering that.