Poll: how many flat tires
05-09-14, 09:06 PM
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Poll: how many flat tires
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Please respond with number of flat tires you have on any car you have driven since yr 2000 (last 14 years) that required road service or use of spare tire.
My number is "0" flats in estimated 210,000 miles driven.
Please respond with number of flat tires you have on any car you have driven since yr 2000 (last 14 years) that required road service or use of spare tire.
My number is "0" flats in estimated 210,000 miles driven.
05-09-14, 09:29 PM
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0 for me in 32,000 miles. Knock wood. But I was also using OEM run flats from the time i bought the car until last summer, and then finally switched to regular summer tires. Then I moved to Chicago and winter hit. Switched to Blizzak Runflats for snow. I need air about once a month but never had to call for tow or road service. I don't even have a spare. Risky business, I know.
05-09-14, 10:57 PM
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4 in the last month!!! Here's a nice story I'd like to share, went to Puerto Rico last month and did some river tubing up in the mountains. Well, I take the rental car up the mountain and about half way, I hear the flop of a flat tire on the passenger side. Get out, scream at the mountain gods and change it while the rest of the tour group watch on and revel in my mechanical skills.
Then after a 6 hour tour that included body rafting through some bumpy rapids and hiking 4 miles in the jungle. I get back into my car, go down an incline about 100ft and the driver's side tire stars to sing the flop song. So there I am in the middle of the jungle/mountain with no cell reception, no idea where I am, and only spoke poor Asian span-glish.
Luckily one of my tour mates stopped and did some translation, long story short, one of the residents pulls out a tire patch kit on it's last patch and patches my tire on the spot. I take the car to the tire shop and get the tire fixed properly for the 2 hour drive back to my hotel, put the key into the ignition, turn, and the key breaks!!!
The moral of the story, Asians don't belong in Puerto Rico :-)
Then after a 6 hour tour that included body rafting through some bumpy rapids and hiking 4 miles in the jungle. I get back into my car, go down an incline about 100ft and the driver's side tire stars to sing the flop song. So there I am in the middle of the jungle/mountain with no cell reception, no idea where I am, and only spoke poor Asian span-glish.
Luckily one of my tour mates stopped and did some translation, long story short, one of the residents pulls out a tire patch kit on it's last patch and patches my tire on the spot. I take the car to the tire shop and get the tire fixed properly for the 2 hour drive back to my hotel, put the key into the ignition, turn, and the key breaks!!!
The moral of the story, Asians don't belong in Puerto Rico :-)
05-10-14, 03:51 AM
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Well, if this is for all cars / miles personally driven since 2000, then it's 693,000 miles on 15 different vehicles, with a total of 3 flats that had to be repaired on the road. There were a number of slow leaks ( 8 ) that were caught and corrected before causing any roadside problems. Only one of the vehicles has RFT's ( 2005 Sienna ). The SC430 has only gone 9,000 miles since we got it in 2012 with no flats.
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05-10-14, 06:40 AM
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None that needed roadside service, but 4 that were slow leaks (nails or screws) that needed repair. On a recent trip from Colorado to Illinois, between Lincoln and Omaha, we saw 4 cars on the side of I80 with flats. I kept an eye on the TPMS in our JGC for quite a while.
05-10-14, 07:01 AM
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At least 200,000 miles driven with no flats that needed road side assistance. Like slingshot, I detected a couple of nails and screws and maybe a slow leak or two, but never needed road side assistance. With that said I also am fairly conservative and do not wear the tires down to where there is no tread left, but change them out when they are fairly low on tread. It's important to me that traveling at high or freeway speeds that the vehicle can make it through shallow puddles without or minimal hydroplaning.
05-10-14, 02:13 PM
#14
About 180 000 miles. 3 different continents. 7 different vehicles. Zero flats requiring a spare tire and rim change roadside. But I did get two technical flats in the SC 430 4 and 3 years back when on RFTs. Zero air pressure in both cases. Limped over to the tire shop on rfts and replaced with non rfts.
Also a bunch of nail holes etc that needed patching each time. Slow leak detected.
Also a bunch of nail holes etc that needed patching each time. Slow leak detected.
05-11-14, 07:30 AM
#15
One flat in the SC. Caused by a crack in the wheel, which was most likely caused by the hard as rock run flat hitting one of our famous Pennsylvania pot holes. Once was more than enough...after this I bought 4 new wheels and 4 new non-run flat tires.