Large item found inside flat tire

[Rodenti]

I was driving through Montreal earlier this week in my truck and got a TPMS warning on the dash.

I quickly pulled into a grocery store parking lot as the tire rapidly deflated and found a large hole that definitely could not be plugged, so I had to swap to the spare.

The tire center replacing my tire found a steel plate from a brake pad INSIDE the flat tire.

I must have hit the steel plate at the perfect angle to puncture my tire and pick it up inside.

 

[hemihustlin]

haha thats a good one! ive seen the stainless steel backing plate thats sometimes clipped on the back of brake pads inside a tire but never the whole brake pad!

 

[Hookedup87]

I pulled this out of my tire a while back. Only the flat side of the screw driver tip was sticking out. It was that deep. Was just barely able to pull it out with the vice grips. I don’t know how it didn’t puncture the tire. Guess that’s the upside of the heavy 10 ply tires we run. I can’t imagine if the whole thing had penetrated to the point it actually would have ended up inside of the tire. Crazy.

 

[Rodenti]

The guy who rolled my tire away said he thought the TPMS sensor was broken and rolling around inside. He came out laughing about what he found inside, I think this was a first for him.

It was definitely a first for me!

I can't imagine how I would have felt pulling that Phillips bit out though... that would have been freaky.

 

[MarineBSP]

These examples are choice ! Closest I can come is when my wife called me while picking our daughters up after school. She thought she heard a sound like a dumpster lid banging shut, and suddenly her rear tire was flat. It wasn't too far from home, and I came and put on a spare for her.

I took the tire in to see if it could be patched, and when the shop called they told me "It's not fixable, but I think we can get you a new one under road hazard". When I picked up the tire they explained that they had removed what was left of a shell casing, and they handed me the bullet they recovered from the old tire. It was a hollow point, not much deformed, so my wife must have driven over some deer hunter's lost cartridge. Whether it actually went off or not I can't say - but it was an interesting souvenir.