strangest thing stuck in tyre

[amazing]

just read Jeffs sidecar antics and a puncture caused by a chain link.so thought how odd and what other oddities have been imbedded in your tyres other than the usual nails and screws.

photos would be nice but all tall tales accepted....

[jx2mad]

Many years ago I had a new set of Michelin tyres fitted on my mini. Two days after fitting I was driving home from work when I heard a loud bang. Sure enough left rear was as flat as a pancake. Looking at it I saw an oval orange thing about 1 inch diameter showing through the tyre. A screwdriver handle, the blade was picked up and the whole screwdriver was forced inside
the tyre. Back to the tyre outlet where they glued a sleeve over the large flap and glued the tyre flap down from the outside, then fitted a tube. Never had any problem with it.

[alien]

I heard a ticking sound coming from one of my truck tyres not long back.
I thought it would be a stone but turned out to be an 6mm allen key.

[flagg]

I heard a ticking sound coming from one of my truck tyres not long back.
I thought it would be a stone but turned out to be an 6mm allen key.




Happened to me too, except it was a 4mm Allen key :( annoying thing is it was chewed up by the tarmac so quite useless.

[Tank]

I had a puncture caused by a bastard File about 18" long and 2" wide, was only about 6" of it sticking out of the tyre, the rest was inside, totally ruined a $300 (10.00X20.00) tyre (28 years ago), PMO, Regards Frank.

[DeeJay]

When in the CMF in the 70's we had an officer with a SWB Landie come into the workshop with a 7.50 x16 tyre with a tear on an angle from the rim to the tread. The WO asked my opinion and I said he has hit a kerb or similar & lucky the rim was undamaged. He agreed. Normally officers got a driver allocated but in some circumstances - during camp- we issued temporary permits for them to drive, so the boss tore strips off him for careless driving withdrew the licence & made him walk home. I got the repair job & found a rusty axe head in the tyre :eek:

We called him back the next day, re issued him a Landie, & said we had reconsidered & felt we were too harsh ( & short of drivers:D)

[mark_coffey]

did a long trip home from Darwin via mt isa, managed to stick a kangaroo bone through the tread and out through the sidewall, hard work to change at -2deg!

[Blknight.aus]

APFDS projectile.

[Disco Muppet]

APFDS projectile.

:eek::eek::eek:

[Naviguesser]

Managed to get a spark plug embedded through the tread of one tyre.

[Rick1970]

A few years ago, go to get in ute to go to work...flat front tyre..great....matching flat rear tyre...excellent.

Short on time so two sticky plugs got me going. I did notice that both punchers were pretty much in the same place on both tyres with nothing found stuck in the tyres..

The old bridge over the creek down the road was an old flat top rail carriage, I stopped in case a bolt or something sticking out.... what I found was a broken flat file that had slipped through the boards and rested on the steel beam below, with just the spike sticking above the boards :mad:

Have a nearly new Maxxis Bighorn in the shed with a 22 bullet hole rite at tread/sidewall join (so they won't fix). I knew it was a 22 bullet rattling around inside before I removed the tyre.....as I put it there. Sick goat..bad shot on my behalf...deflected off skull and straight through tyre :mad:

[Mick_Marsh]

Driving along at some point I heard a thunk....thunk.....thunk.
Turns out I drove over a screwdriver. It went in through the tread and out the side without piercing the tyre. Still got the tyre in my shed.

[Slunnie]

I've had a coke can stuck in the tread of a Simex Jungle Trekker2. :eek:

[mick88]

Several years back i got a flat on the Oodnadatta track between William Creek and Oodnadatta. I expected to find it had been steaked or pinched by one of gibbers, but no. Turned out to have horse shoe nail in it. Probally not that unusual given the location, but all the same, gibbers are more common there than horse shoe nails.

Ches, Mick.

[V8Ian]

A 9/10-1/2" half moon sidchrome between the tyre and tube of a 10-00X20, only found when I was replacing the worn out tyre.

[Hall]

Does some thing left in side the tyre between the tube and the tyre count? Got to dargo and the tyre was going flat. Bloke at the general store had a look. A valve had been left in the tyre. Could see the imprint on the tube. Another issue.Tyre did not go down ( one of the benefits of tubes.) Went through a section of swamp that had encroached onto the original track. Was as I found out a fair bit of wood under the water. Spent half a hour digging bits of wood out from around the bead of a couple of tyres.
Cheers Hall

[digger]

At ANDAMOOKA had a drive about town after a fire that we had that had started after a storm. Got a flat, not hugely unusual there checked tyre and found bit of steel hanging out (just)

On changing tyre off rim the bloke found half a pair of pliers in the tyre (one whole arm!) He added it to a collection of stuff he'd pulled from the tyres over the years.. quite impressive!

[sheerluck]

I've had half a screwdriver stuck in a tyre. No idea where or how I would have picked it up, but 10kms from home it started lurching to one side. Pulled in at Beaurepairs, and he pulled the metal shaft and remains of the plastic handle out of the tread.

$25 later and the hole was plugged and the screwdriver added to his glass jar of oddities.

[isuzutoo-eh]

An ear or belly button piercing...


in a pushbike tyre.

[wrinklearthur]

Wasn't my tyre, but I have heard of similar stories.

Ref; https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=658712530807791&set=o.350988760000&type=1&ref=nf

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/q85/s720x720/1240210_658712530807791_1987017502_n.jpg

In fact I think this is another sham story and made up, just look at the type of flooring used below the held board.
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[ATH]

I remember my very first car (Mk2 Ford Consul) getting my very first puncture.....a set of house keys with the Yale stuck right through the tread. It didn't go down fast but made a strange noise as it hit the road.
I also remember the night on the Mitchell Freeway heading north around Lake Monger area before they put the railway down the middle...a truck going south lost a box of screws/bolts which spread over all lanes causing about 30 vehicles to come to a quick halt and gave the RACWA a few hours work fixing them.:p
AlanH.

[Bushie]

Jockey wheel assembly from a trailer, I saw it on the road near the Dig Tree, clipped it with the front tyre it spun around and the handle went through the sidewall of the back tyre. :mad::mad:


Martyn

[Gumnut]

I once had a Yamaha motorcycle key go into the inner rear sidewall of a new tyre the day and 150km after fitting.

Unrepairable, and brassed me off no end to need to spend another $300.

And, no, I did not run into, over or even see a motorbike......

Gumnut

[Blknight.aus]

worst Ive seen (not my tyre so doesnt really count) was a mobile phone inside a RAAF unimog 1750 tyre.
These things are tubeless and we had the day chaging about 8 tyres, on 2 vehicles. end of the day he couldnt find his phone.


about a month later we had a mog come in with a tyre going flat, inside the trye was the remains of a phone and a heap of rubber abraded from the airtight lining inside the tyre

[scarry]

Not a tyre,but a mate of mine clipped a piece of broken axle on the road to Karumba,late in the day,it went through the sump of the Tojo diesel.Oil light was on in seconds,shut it down,towed to the next small town and the local mechanic had an old sump and new gasket,all fitted,on his way the next day.:)

[Gerokent]

Having had a rear tyre change on a 70 tonne dump truck, driver returned to workshop saying there is banging noise from rear of truck. After a lengthy investigation, a sledge hammer was found inside said tyre:eek:
Hammer was hung on the wall as momento to the tyre fitter:D

[copba]

Some years ago my father got a 7/16 combination spanner (with the ring end partially broken off) completely inside the passenger side rear tyre, it went down very quick.
Theorising it we decided that it was probably lying on the road, and was flicked up by the front wheel running over it so as to be able to penetrate the rear tyre.
I've still got it on my book shelf at home, dad reckons it's the most expensive spanner he's ever bought :o

[jx2mad]

Not a tyre story but interesting. My father had a Reo lorry for carrying cases of bananas to the train at Coff's Harbour. One day the clutch went and the local mechanic stripped out the gearbox and replaced the clutch and reassembled. Went for a test drive to find gearbox oil everywhere. Problem was that a rivet from the old clutch had flown out and punched a perfectly round hole of rivet head size through the gearbox case. The gearbox had to come out again so the hole could be welded up. Mechanic wasn't impressed.

[DasLandRoverMan]

I've found a hypodermic needle in the tyre of a farm Land Rover. Not so strange as the owner had been out with the Vet vaccinating cattle, but an interesting find nonetheless.

[ATH]

That pic of the board with screws in it reminds me of the staking devices being used around the Mt Jackson area in WA. Lengths of metal about 30mm wide and 250 long with bolts welded on and ground down to a rough point then hidden just under the track surface.
Some nasty git around there wants to stop anyone encroaching on his mining leases regardless of how dangerous it is.
AlanH.

[VladTepes]

Local tyre place used to have a box on the counter of stuff dug out of tyres...

Full of tek screws (naturally), bits of wood and so on.

Other things there (not sure whether these were penetrations or things left inside tyres) included coins, a cigarette lighter, a dog collar tag (poor fido?), and a bloody knitting needle !

[wrinklearthur]

I heard that a couple of blokes doing their job at the wharf , found some white powder stuffed inside a spare wheel. :wasntme:
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