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Noticed round mark on my tire's sidewall. Upon closer inspection...  What could cause that type of damage at that spot, right in the middle? Looks like someone took a shot with a .177. Do I need new tires? More importantly, do I need to start packing? | ||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Whatever it is, it's a whole lot bigger than .177. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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That's pretty much a poster child for a tire that cannot be repaired safely. No tire shop would touch that. It almost looks deliberate. Is there an exit hole? If not, maybe the projectile, if that's what it was, is still inside. | |||
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I'd think a .22 or larger would have punched right through. Also looks like burn marks surrounding the cavity. A cigarette shouldn't be able to do that. A soldering iron? There's no exit hole. The tire is still inflated. | |||
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| Green grass and high tides  |
Talk to your tire guys. They have seen it all. It is highly unlikely your tire was shot. Vandalism, maybe. Got a scorned woman in your life? Probably some kind of road hazard. "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
Looks like a Phillips screwdriver to the sidewall. -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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The cake is a lie! |
Looks like a whole lot of scuffing around the puncture to be just from a bullet. | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
Maybe the tire caught the corner of a storm drain? Got cut granite curbs in 'San Hozay, KA'? ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
The scuff marks closer to the rim (just above the word "Polyester") look like it's hit something to me. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Agree with other posters on looking manmade due to the scuffing. I've had to replace a tire due to mandmade damage. Had an employee get sentenced to weekend jail for a sex offense. Pretty sure he was the one who put a slash on my tire sidewall that didn't go all the way through (i.e. likely to blowout while driving not find flat in parking lot). I got a memorable flat many years ago that seemed new to the Discount Tire Crew. I was living in the LA area and dodged a ladder on a curve doing about 80 in the HOV lane. A few hours later I had a flat so I put on the spare and took it to Discount Tire. They called me into the shop and said you’re never going to guess what caused it. My guess was pieces of aluminum ladder. They were correct as never in a million years would I have guessed the lever from nail clippers. I wish I’d have taken a pic but it was before cell phones had cameras. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Plugged a hole in the laws tractor tire like that when the wife ran over a sprinkler and it shoved a sharp piece of plastic through the sidewall. It's definitely not 10mm or the wheel would be totally destroyed and the tire gone... | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
I'd guess some unknown road hazard. It is the simplest explanation, and simplest is to be preferred. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| I can't tell if I'm tired, or just lazy  |
If it was a bullet and it didn't go all the way through then it should be rattling around inside the tire. My guess is you ran over something. _____________________________ "The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living." "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" Benjamin Franklin | |||
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| Gone but Together Again. Dad & Uncle  |
Crazy that I also had the lever from nail clippers puncture a tire too. Like you, my repair shop was surprised at the source as well. | |||
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| I Am The Walrus |
The car would've probably been destroyed as well. _____________ | |||
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How about this? The abrasion area surrounding the main "crater" was caused by the rubber flexing inward as the FO (foreign object) pushed its way into the tire. The sidewall was never fully penetrated, so the FO was immediately ejected as the material rebounded, leaving that unusual wound site. At any rate, the tire's structural integrity has been clearly compromised, and has to be replaced. | |||
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| Lost |
Maybe the object was a rod or pole of some kind. I've actually heard of something similar. Years ago a woman driving across the Bay Bridge was killed by a piece of rebar. The bar somehow got kicked into the air, and in a freak accident bounced up and into the poor woman's car, penetrating the passenger cabin and impaling from below. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
I had a friend experience something similar a couple years ago, but luckily escaped without injury. Ran over a piece of rebar laying on the highway, which punctured up through her wheel well. | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
Guys, the man posted this only three down from his OP. I wish the picture was better. I'm guessing you ran over a piece of angle iron which gouged a deep piece out and abraded the area around the gouge. | |||
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| Back, and to the left  |
I saw one that looked like that after their tire kind of side swiped a damaged parking curb that had a piece of rebar sticking out of it. | |||
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