FLAT---DARKSIDE FLAT

THIS AM GOING TO WORK SHORTLY AFTER LEAVING THE HOUSE AT ABOUT 55MPH RIDE GOT VERY SOFT/HARDER TO STEER....PULLEDOVER REAR TIRE FLAT..... 16 penny common nail...in tread / with exit through outside sidewall....RAT FEATHERS.......15,000 MILES AND STILL LOOKS NEW....toyo proxie t1r 215/45zr/18.....time to go tire hunting...........vtx 1800 f2........ESKIMO

way to save your bacon, always trust your gut "butt". I have stopped cause it felt different but it was the road. I will take a false stop anyday than push my luck.
15k and still looks new? remind me not to follow you on a ride

See you out there
Smokey

Bummer man. I hate it when that happens to a young tire. Glad it wasn't worse.

15 K and still live left. Guess you already know which one to buy.
Good to read you pulled over in time, indeed as Smokey said, better safe then sorry.
Robert.

ESKIMO wrote: 16 penny common nail...in tread / with exit through outside sidewall

ya really got me thinking, I always figgered I could plug a flat, never thught off th epossibility of somethin poking thru the sidewall too

looking at the profile of my tire, it is not only posible, but likely if I pick up a nail longer than an inch and a half within the outer 2" of trear, on each side, thats 50% of my tread area

Ionce found a note under the wiperblade on a VW Vanagon I once had, the note told me to look at my left front tire, yikes, a 4" masonry nail sticling in the tread and out the sidewall, but the tire had not leaked any air,musta missed hitting air by a fraction, pulled the nail out with vise grip, never had an issue with the tire, it was a 10ply studded Hakk, I know where the nail came from