114 days

WESHOOT2 · Mon Mar 02, 2015 5:28 pm

.....On Saturday, at 152,789 miles, I had another flat.

What's that, a dozen?

Getting repaired now.

WESHOOT2 · Mon Mar 02, 2015 5:28 pm

hit somethin' in the road at about 100......

Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:50 pm

lol That's fairly scary when you hit stuff going that fast. I almost hit a couple of ducks last year doing about a buck 20. I though the one was going to go through the windshield. I'm pretty confident the drivers side mirror made slight contact with one duck on the way past.

WESHOOT2 · Wed Mar 04, 2015 4:27 pm

I remember a 1972 'incident' with a '66 Corvair, 105 MPH, and a rear blow-out.....

golftango · Wed Mar 04, 2015 6:31 pm

WESHOOT2 wrote:I remember a 1972 'incident' with a '66 Corvair, 105 MPH, and a rear blow-out.....

I'm sure there were "two" rear blow-outs that day.

WESHOOT2 · Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:58 pm

Nope; same day same car same trip (headed to the Michigan Dunes for a day of drunken high-school ditching) after I'd put the spare on the rear, a front lost air about twenty minutes later.
We pooled our money and bought a used wrong-sized but right-wheel-diameter baldie for $5 and limped (ah, "under 80") the rest of the trip.....

WESHOOT2 · Thu Mar 05, 2015 2:48 pm

Last night on the Interstate at 72 MPH the repair plug 'exited' the tire (heard it "POP", heard the plug bounce down the side of the car, heard the explosive expulsion of air) and recognized I'd had a blow-out.

Tire destroyed; replacing now.

153,022 miles today

twoqttsdad · Thu Mar 05, 2015 5:53 pm

I assume that the failed tire repair was a plug only type?

If it was maybe a plug & patch combo would be better to be used in the future?

WESHOOT2 · Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:09 pm

It was a 'plug'.

I have two full sets of snows in my garage (amongst others)and I'll not be plug-patching any tires, except for short-term getting me through.

I hope....

WESHOOT2 · Wed Mar 11, 2015 5:20 pm

Today, 153,559 miles.

Yesterday, at 153,364, I had the dealer change the oil.

Ahhh....