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Expensive drive home tonight.
I saw the cavern but thought I was far enough to the left to miss it. Obviously not. First time in 40 years of driving that I had a blow-out and had to change a tire on the side of the road. Luckily I was pulling onto a long entrance ramp from a side road so I only had to worry about low speed traffic. And it was the passenger side front tire making changing it safer yet.
Two new snow tires so I have a matched set on the axle, and have to plan for a wheel straightening in the Spring. They only had expensive Michelin X-Ice snows in stock which matched the size of my existing snows and no tires in the size I wanted to buy. The bent wheel is balanced to zero and the tire holds air but the Road Force reading was almost 40 when the goal is to be less than 20. I expect I will need to replace the other two snows before next winter so all four match rather than the two Michelins and two Gislaveds I now have.
->Posting last edited on Tue, 4 Feb 2014 17:57:04.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Hit a pot hole, blew a snow tire, bent a rim....., MI-Roger , Tue, 4 Feb 2014 17:12:32 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Hit a pot hole, blew a snow tire, bent a rim....., Gene N , Thu, 6 Feb 2014 06:05:01
- 39 psi on coldest day is cheap insurance. nm, Norm9-5, Wed, 5 Feb 2014 08:36:37
- I love that rim, but I wonder if they are bendy?, Snowmobile , Wed, 5 Feb 2014 07:42:14
- Re: Hit a pot hole, blew a snow tire, bent a rim....., dtechakacheaptech, Wed, 5 Feb 2014 05:22:42
- Re: Hit a pot hole, blew a snow tire, bent a rim....., Tom G , Wed, 5 Feb 2014 04:25:10
- Re: Hit a pot hole, blew a snow tire, bent a rim....., seth1065 , Tue, 4 Feb 2014 19:03:30
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