My wife and I were going to drive to a park today and when we were just a couple miles from home I thought to look at my tire pressure on the screen and was surprised to see 3 tires at 43 psi and one rear tire at 34 psi. I parked and got out to check my pressure with my tire gauge and it confirmed the low tire. I felt for a nail/screw and discovered a roofing nail in the tire. I drove home and jacked up the car and removed the tire and when I pulled out the nail I discovered a 2 1/2" nail that I don't think it would be possible to get in the tire by driving over it on the road. I can't imagine a nail this long being able to flip upright as you drove over it like a short roofing nail. I suspect a Tesla hater might have sabotaged my tire by wedging the nail up against the tire so that when I backed up I would drive the nail into the tire. I only used Sentry mode one time last weekend when we left the car for a couple of hours at a restaurant. Since I've only had the car for two weeks I can recall all the places I parked. I was at Walmart once and an auto supply store twice. From now on I'll set the Sentry mode every every time I park somewhere.
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First flat tire - could be intentional
- Thread starter NMystic
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It's certainly possible that somebody did that. But I've had nails much longer than that stuck in tires before under situations where I know it wasn't done on purpose. I had one a long time ago that was like about a 9 inch long nail that you use to hang up gutters!!! That did a number on the tire. I think what happens a lot of times is these things fall out of work trucks and then they are just laying there on the road. Other vehicles then hit them and send them flying. And bad luck, it just goes under your tire at the proper angle. You probably get hit with dozens that you don't even know about that don't land just right. So a nail in your tire doesn't necessarily mean it was just sitting idle on the road in the upright position. Anyway, that's my guess. Now if in the future if you have a Sentry video of somebody sabotaging you with a nail? Would I be surprised? Nope.
RayK
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I'd say that if it was an intentional act, only having one tire being punctured would be a rarity.
Gauss Guzzler
Safety Score = 42
Nah, crazy nails like that flip up into tires all the time. Even large bolts sometimes manage to flip up and pierce right into a tire. Even in front tires!
RayK
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Sorry to say that that one looks deliberate. Hard to see how it got kicked up into the sidewall with enough force to penetrate like that. And almost directly perpendicular.
I hope you are correct since I don't like thinking someone would do this intentionally right near where I live.
Young Phenom
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Just put some sealant on the threads and screw it all the way in lol
PACEMD
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I bet it was the Russians! You know how Russians are..........
PACEMD
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No seriously, I had a patient in emergency, a 10-year-old male, with a pea lodged in his ear canal. He and his mother were walking in a field when a combine passed by, about 50 feet away, and projected a pea, which landed in his ear canal. I told the patient/mother, if you dedicate the rest of your life to trying to replicate that event you will always fail. Had to be exactly the right size, velocity, angle, blah blah blah. Point is sh*t happens. Forrest Gump....
PACEMD
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Oh, and that nail event is not uncommon..........I've had that type of nail/screw in a tire several times.......
PACEMD
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I'm a North Carolina boy, I think the roads in NC are paved with nails. Here in Montana, it's road rocks that crack every known windshield. At home it's always a nail in the tire.
ChadS
Last tank of gas: March 2009
I once got a 2" screw fully embedded straight in to my tire...on a bicycle.
I could tell as soon as I picked it up on my ride, so I'm sure it really was just road debris that I ran over. It's hard to see how it can happen, but it does.
I could tell as soon as I picked it up on my ride, so I'm sure it really was just road debris that I ran over. It's hard to see how it can happen, but it does.
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