JMAK74
06-23-2005, 08:36 PM
Hello All,
I was wondering if anyone else ran into this situation - hopefully not - and maybe it\'s something to check if the tires haven\'t been taken off the car since it was manufactured.
The Thursday before the May long weekend, I make a left hand turn from Birchmount onto Ellsmere East. I hear a funny sound from the back, and next thing you know, I can hear that I have a flat tire (rear passanger side?!?) - side wall at that - what ever I picked up caught on like the last 1/4\" of tire surface on the road and was tall enough and sharp enough to slice up my sidewall (sorry didn\'t take an pics - should have). Pull into a school parking lot - not happy - I\'m trying to get to Scarborough Town Centre to pick up my girls b-day gift (were leaving Friday night out of town). Fine, I\'m cool, got enought time - 20 minutes to put the donut on, I\'ll get the tire fixed when I get back in town. I\'ve changed a flat tire before and I did the brakes on my Honda 88 Prelude regularly - I could do it with my eyes closed (so to speak). All goes fine upto the point were the tire is supposed to come off - it won\'t budge! I shake it, tug at it, feel around for a clip or something, I do the donkey kick to it - nothing! After 20 minutes of this, I call the dealership, asking them - is there a trick to this? No and they can\'t send a tech as they were all busy - this was around sevenish. I call roadside service - it\'s eight thirty now - I could have rotated all four tire with the suicide jack that comes with the car. The CAA guy says a donkey kick should take it off, told him I tried that and he does one - \"That\'s on tight! I\'ll use the persuader!\" He brings out a rubber mallet and wack the rim (no damage) - nothing. \"That\'s on REALLY tight.\" CAA dude says. He take a hammer with a rubber handle and with the rubber mallet uses it like a chisel (rubber end on rim) on the back of the rim to get it off - which after a couple of wacks it comes off. In the end, the donut got on, go the gift and replaced the Toyo A18 (it came with the car when I bought it - I mention that cause I\'ve read people saying the stock tires suck and most have said Michlgen (spelling)) the week after. The CAA guy said that alumnium rims can get \'frozen\' on - but he said he\'s never seen one on that tight before. What sucked also - 12,000km and I have to buy one tire....
Now imagine if that happened when I was on the 115 (heads to Peterborough) at 2 in the morning in January?
My car is do for its next service call in July - I\'m asking them to pull the tires off and lubricate the area where they join. For all I know, it\'s only was that one wheel and the rest will be fine.
Anyone else run into this?
Sorry for the long rant but I\'d hate to see that happen to someone out on the highway alone late at night.
JK
I was wondering if anyone else ran into this situation - hopefully not - and maybe it\'s something to check if the tires haven\'t been taken off the car since it was manufactured.
The Thursday before the May long weekend, I make a left hand turn from Birchmount onto Ellsmere East. I hear a funny sound from the back, and next thing you know, I can hear that I have a flat tire (rear passanger side?!?) - side wall at that - what ever I picked up caught on like the last 1/4\" of tire surface on the road and was tall enough and sharp enough to slice up my sidewall (sorry didn\'t take an pics - should have). Pull into a school parking lot - not happy - I\'m trying to get to Scarborough Town Centre to pick up my girls b-day gift (were leaving Friday night out of town). Fine, I\'m cool, got enought time - 20 minutes to put the donut on, I\'ll get the tire fixed when I get back in town. I\'ve changed a flat tire before and I did the brakes on my Honda 88 Prelude regularly - I could do it with my eyes closed (so to speak). All goes fine upto the point were the tire is supposed to come off - it won\'t budge! I shake it, tug at it, feel around for a clip or something, I do the donkey kick to it - nothing! After 20 minutes of this, I call the dealership, asking them - is there a trick to this? No and they can\'t send a tech as they were all busy - this was around sevenish. I call roadside service - it\'s eight thirty now - I could have rotated all four tire with the suicide jack that comes with the car. The CAA guy says a donkey kick should take it off, told him I tried that and he does one - \"That\'s on tight! I\'ll use the persuader!\" He brings out a rubber mallet and wack the rim (no damage) - nothing. \"That\'s on REALLY tight.\" CAA dude says. He take a hammer with a rubber handle and with the rubber mallet uses it like a chisel (rubber end on rim) on the back of the rim to get it off - which after a couple of wacks it comes off. In the end, the donut got on, go the gift and replaced the Toyo A18 (it came with the car when I bought it - I mention that cause I\'ve read people saying the stock tires suck and most have said Michlgen (spelling)) the week after. The CAA guy said that alumnium rims can get \'frozen\' on - but he said he\'s never seen one on that tight before. What sucked also - 12,000km and I have to buy one tire....
Now imagine if that happened when I was on the 115 (heads to Peterborough) at 2 in the morning in January?
My car is do for its next service call in July - I\'m asking them to pull the tires off and lubricate the area where they join. For all I know, it\'s only was that one wheel and the rest will be fine.
Anyone else run into this?
Sorry for the long rant but I\'d hate to see that happen to someone out on the highway alone late at night.
JK