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Driving home from work last night, I apparently ran over a railroad spike, because I developed a moderate leak in the rear right tire that steadily got worse the more I drove. Unfortunately, it sounded exactly like running over a tar snake and getting rocks glued to the tire, so I shrugged it off for a couple of miles and didn't pull over immediately. It appears that the rim is intact, but the tire didn't fare so well - there's a significant groove worn in where it impacted the edge of the rim.
*sigh*
New tires for this beast, because it has the 20" rims, are $200+ each. Kill me now.
Oh, and to top if off, I get home to find out that my daughter had gotten ahold of a pair of scissors and lopped off half her hair so "Baby Momma" (one of her dolls) could have hair too...
I've got the suburban dad blues...
"Well I got out of work this evenin'
Found my tire's low on air.
Got home to my family,
to find my daughter has no hair.
I've got the bluuuuuues...
The suburban dad bluuuues..."
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
That is all.
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Man I hear ya! I had the front drivers side tire with a slow leak finally give out on 128 at rush hour on Monday going into work. . . smoke and all. Tire is gone and I too am not looking forward to a new tire for my pick up either. . .
Must be the week for it in MA. . .
Hey, it can only go up from here right?
Jay G.'s corollary to Murphy's Law:
"Things are never so bad that they can't get worse."
There's a million ways things can go south...
aw - every kid tries a do-it-yourself haircut at one point or another :D
O'Toole's corollary to Murphy's Law: Murphy was an optimist.
At least you didn't have to buy a set of run-flats . . . my local theif-agency (aka Honda Dealership) wanted $425 PER TIRE plus installation. Bastards.
When my own daughter-&-progeny decided it was do-it-yourself haircut time, she cut the tops off a couple of her stuffed animals.
Son got ahold of the scissors last week. His hair was already 1/2" long & he sill found a way to make it 1/8" on the sides & front.
http://www.rimpro.com/index.html
Have a look at these guys, they're local and can at worst sell you a matching rim for CHEAP.
Best of luck
Ya, well we are having some nice spring riding weather here in Northern Calif. and the back tire on MY Harley resembles this hosts head. Waiting for the gubimint check.
By the By; There nothing so bad a new gun won't cure.
See, that's why I'm glad my light truck has 15" wheels and takes bone-standard normal tires.
A complete set runs something like $250, installed, from Les Schwab.
So are you going to breakdown and buy a new set or just replace the bad one?
breda,
It wouldn't be so bad except this is like the third or fourth time she's done this. Every time she gets in trouble, we take away her scissor privileges, she gets her hair cut short, etc. Then her hair grows out, she forgets everything she's ever learned, and it's back to the Medvale School for the Gifted Home Hair Salon...
brad,
I'll thank heavens for small favors. Of course, if I had run-flats this wouldn't have been an issue, as there wouldn't have been any damage to the tire and all I'd need to do would be to get the hole plugged... The problem arises because I didn't stop in time and wound up gouging the sidewall...
Ricky,
IMHO, it's not as bad when it's a boy because you can just grab the clippers, buzz it down to a uniform level, and they can live with it. Girls, OTOH, don't generally dig the GI Jane look.
Although we have thought about it as a punishment...
weer'd,
I am fairly certain that the rim is fine. There was still some air left in the tire when I stopped, so I don't think the rim itself ever hit the ground. But thanks anyways - that's a good resource for winter tire rims!
anon,
Sure, rub it in. Today's supposed to get up close to 70ºF, but I've got too much to do to enjoy it.
And, of course, it's going to freakin' pour all weekend...
My tires are going to last forever on my Harley, because I *want* them to wear out so I can replace them with whitewalls. Ditto the exhaust...
As for the new gun, I *was* going to buy a 10/22 for Buy A Gun Day, but this latest tire fiasco pretty much wiped out that $$$. Won't be any new gun acquisitions until probably September. :(
sigivald,
No kidding. We put four brand new BFGs on our Durango for $300 installed @ BJ's about 2 years ago (we traded the Durango in on the Ram). It's the 20s that are killing me, and they came with the package with the Hemi, which I needed for the towing power.
I might just pick up a set of chromed steel 17" rims when it comes time to replace all 4 tires...
Matt,
I'm only replacing the one tire. The truck's only got 11K on it, so the remaining tires are fine. Fortunately, the truck has a full-sized spare, so I'll put a brand new tire on one rim, then swap the spare for year-old rubber on the other rear tire. That way the tread on the back wheels will match.
Unless, of course, there's less than 4/32 of an inch difference between the old & new tires (according to the guys at the tire place), because then I can just replace the blown tire and be done.
I'm hoping that's the case...
Hang in there big guy, friday is comming.
Jay,
In theory, you're quite correct. In my case, it's the boy with autism and - as the world is slowly finding out - they sometimes have peculiar physical 'ticks' because things 'feel' differently to them than they do to us. Dunno if it's a variation of nerve endings or what, but that's becoming the conventional wisdom.
Any way, in my boy's case, he hates the 'feel' of hair that has been cut & is touching his skin (well, neither did or do I....I always hated it, too) because whenever he bends his neck he says that it 'sticks' (again, I felt the same thing as a kid...the ends of short hairs most certainly ARE more prickly than longer ones). Anywho, giving him a buzz cut is an action that takes as much preparation as talking my wife into watching an Andrew Dice Clay DVD instead of a Sandra Bulloch chick flick: better to just wait out the storm and avoid the catostrophe.
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