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And I can't figure out why it was flat.
I jacked it up, pumped it up, sprayed it over nice and good with soapy water.
Nothing. I sprayed the seal, too.
Didn't see any screws or nails in it either.
When I pulled it from my evening cruise on the winding back roads yesterday the tire was fine.
Tires are less than two years old. Not many miles on them. Less than a thousand.
Ironically, I did top off the air yesterday prior to heading out on my cruise.
Only thing I can think of is maybe a valve stem pin is sticking out too far and maybe I tightened the cap down too far and it let the air out?
That's kind of out there, though. Highly doubtful, in my view.
I put a plug kit and a small compressor in the car just to have, in case I end up flat some place.
It's kind of an annoying flat, though, since I can't figure out how it happened. It was pretty sudden in that it happened overnight. I've never had a slow leak or anything from them.
Those tires are over two hundred Federal Reserve Notes a pop, too, so I'm hoping it was just something to do with how I put the cap back onto the valve stem.
Anyone ever have that happen where your tire goes flat for no apparent reason? Surely, there must be a reaso nit went flat. I can't find it, though. And it's held air since I refilled it. That was 5 AM this morning when I got up and went out to feed the birds and noticed it.
I jacked it up, pumped it up, sprayed it over nice and good with soapy water.
Nothing. I sprayed the seal, too.
Didn't see any screws or nails in it either.
When I pulled it from my evening cruise on the winding back roads yesterday the tire was fine.
Tires are less than two years old. Not many miles on them. Less than a thousand.
Ironically, I did top off the air yesterday prior to heading out on my cruise.
Only thing I can think of is maybe a valve stem pin is sticking out too far and maybe I tightened the cap down too far and it let the air out?
That's kind of out there, though. Highly doubtful, in my view.
I put a plug kit and a small compressor in the car just to have, in case I end up flat some place.
It's kind of an annoying flat, though, since I can't figure out how it happened. It was pretty sudden in that it happened overnight. I've never had a slow leak or anything from them.
Those tires are over two hundred Federal Reserve Notes a pop, too, so I'm hoping it was just something to do with how I put the cap back onto the valve stem.
Anyone ever have that happen where your tire goes flat for no apparent reason? Surely, there must be a reaso nit went flat. I can't find it, though. And it's held air since I refilled it. That was 5 AM this morning when I got up and went out to feed the birds and noticed it.