A "blow out" of a thanksgiving trip!
Part 1.. We had our first blow out on the road last week. (We were on I-75) Not too much damage down below, maybe because I stopped immediately as I knew exactly what had happened and I was only going 60 in the right lane. Or maybe I got lucky..
I am a very prepared and organized person, I had everything to change the tire (so I thought) BUT, I didn't count on the highway shoulder to be at such angle that my truck jack would not work. (Meaning I felt it to be unsafe with all the sway from passing trucks and cars) In comes a Good Sam service about an hour and a half later with their 3 ton floor jack with no problem. My jack may have worked, but I didn't want to chance it.
Lesson learned, but, my question to any of you...
If any of you have changed a tire on the interstate, what have you used?
Part 2.., Here is the best part, leaving stone mountain, all packed up and pulling out of the site, our neighbor yelled for us to stop. As we were passing his site, both tires were quickly going flat as air rushed out if them. I immediately reversed and backed into our site. No one could figure out what popped them (nothing was in them and nothing was on the ground) This time, we were in a nice and flat area, so I took both tires off and had them patched at a nearby good year tire store.
4 hours later, as I installed the tires, the kids and the wife looked all around for what punctured the tires. Finally, under a bunch of leaves, my wife saw what looked like a tent stake in the ground nailed into a rail road tie. I called the office and they came down to take a look. No one had an explanation, so we just took some pictures, they removed it (not easily, they ended up just nailing back in) we made sure the office knew what happened and we had to get on our way, long trip back to Tampa yesterday.
So, 3 tires, one trip. BUT, we had a great time at Stone Mountain! one of our favorite campgrounds.
I am a very prepared and organized person, I had everything to change the tire (so I thought) BUT, I didn't count on the highway shoulder to be at such angle that my truck jack would not work. (Meaning I felt it to be unsafe with all the sway from passing trucks and cars) In comes a Good Sam service about an hour and a half later with their 3 ton floor jack with no problem. My jack may have worked, but I didn't want to chance it.
Lesson learned, but, my question to any of you...
If any of you have changed a tire on the interstate, what have you used?
Part 2.., Here is the best part, leaving stone mountain, all packed up and pulling out of the site, our neighbor yelled for us to stop. As we were passing his site, both tires were quickly going flat as air rushed out if them. I immediately reversed and backed into our site. No one could figure out what popped them (nothing was in them and nothing was on the ground) This time, we were in a nice and flat area, so I took both tires off and had them patched at a nearby good year tire store.
4 hours later, as I installed the tires, the kids and the wife looked all around for what punctured the tires. Finally, under a bunch of leaves, my wife saw what looked like a tent stake in the ground nailed into a rail road tie. I called the office and they came down to take a look. No one had an explanation, so we just took some pictures, they removed it (not easily, they ended up just nailing back in) we made sure the office knew what happened and we had to get on our way, long trip back to Tampa yesterday.
So, 3 tires, one trip. BUT, we had a great time at Stone Mountain! one of our favorite campgrounds.
