[Shotimes] flat tire - tire wall damage?

[Ron Porter]

If there is ANY sidewall damage, the tire is toast.

If the hole "is pretty wide" you can always find "someone" who will fix it,
but it sounds to big to me. If you can see the hole.....it's too big.

Even if someone "could" fix it, it doesn't sound like a tire that I would
want to drive on with that sidewall damage.

2-3 miles is a LONG way!! I have messed up a tire after a few hundred feet
(pulling over as quickly as I could).

You did buy the Road Hazard warranty, didn't you??  ;-)

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of cmichaelo@optonline.net
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:57 AM
To: shotimes
Subject: [Shotimes] flat tire - tire wall damage?

You've probably heard, or even experienced, this tire incident before:

I ran over a nasty long fat (4mm diameter!) nail along the side of a road.

By the time I got home the tire was completely flat.

I probably drove for 2-3miles with the tire totally flat (very slow though)
.

The nail pierced right through the middle of the tire.

My questions are

1) Can this even be fixed?  The hole is pretty wide.

2) Did I damage the reinforcement of the sidewalls? Externally, the shape of
the side wall looks fine, except some of the rubber has been worn off (where
the rim pressed down on the collapsed wall).  But  there's no bulging or
warping of the sidewall.

The tire is a Pilot Sport 235/40-18. Almost new.  This sucks.

Michael
94MTX,green,BOS+,Koni/Intrax,Baer,Corbeau
SHO items for sale: http://hometown.aol.com/cmichaelo/for_sale.html
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