Guest 1FASTC4 Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Gs-D3... didn't notice until late tonight. Even if it can be plugged it won't be the same. I'm quite sad. Thank you for letting me whine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie44 Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Must be going around. Steve told me he picked up something on the freeway and blew his front tire. I had a nail in the shoulder of one on my C5 the week before I traded it in. That cost me $200 and that was prorated. Just to trade it in a week later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest UVETTYA Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 And what a pain in the arse it is to have a flat and no spare! I was on the 101 headed north about McDowell when I drove over something and it made a hole in the tire about center tread. I couldn't get the guy at Advanced Tire to plug it for me because I had driven on it flat and the sidewall was worn down quite a bit and he said it was unsafe. I asked him how unsafe could it be when it just blew out at 75 on the freeway, but he still wouldn't fix it. I tried the glue stuff that comes with the inflator kit, but that was a joke. There was a hole in the tire half as big as a pencil and when I put air in, the stuff just blew out all over the side of the car, and it's dried now and I don't know how I'm going to get it off. #@%&!I finally talked the guy into plugging the tire while it was on the car and I was able to make it home. If I would have been in BFE I would have been screwed and probably paid several hundred dollars or more just for a tow.First time with a flat for me, but I'm wary now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steve Mulvey Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 If this happens to anyone else and you are near 101 and Raintree/Cactus I have all the necessary stuff in my garage to plug tires. Maybe we should have a Corvette Saturday and I will show everyone how to do it. You can get everything at a parts store for about $5-$10 and it will fit in the glove compartment... Book a place and get an old tire.. I will gladly demonstrate. By the way, I have plugged sidewalls too for my own stuff... not that noticeable on the inside... $190 cheaper as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loud Pedal Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Must be going around. Steve told me he picked up something on the freeway and blew his front tire. I had a nail in the shoulder of one on my C5 the week before I traded it in. That cost me $200 and that was prorated. Just to trade it in a week later.I had to put a new battery in my C5 before I traded it in. All it had to do was make 1 more trip. Even my charger/booster wouldn't do the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knkayotte Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 I always carry a do it yourself plug repair kits and a cheap 12v compressor in the trunk of the vette. Saved me twice.compressor take forever though to fill a tire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest UVETTYA Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 If this happens to anyone else and you are near 101 and Raintree/Cactus I have all the necessary stuff in my garage to plug tires. Maybe we should have a Corvette Saturday and I will show everyone how to do it. You can get everything at a parts store for about $5-$10 and it will fit in the glove compartment... Book a place and get an old tire.. I will gladly demonstrate. By the way, I have plugged sidewalls too for my own stuff... not that noticeable on the inside... $190 cheaper as well...Hey Steve, that's a generous offer. I've carried a plug kit for 3 yrs now but didn't need to us it until now. The biggest problem was finding the hole. I couldn't feel it, or see it, until I put the glue stuff in the tire, applied high pressure air and then rotated the tire until the stuff squirted out. It would have been extremly difficult if not impossible to find it with that whimpy little air pump GM supplies with the flat repair kit, and/or without lifting the car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steve Mulvey Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 pour water on the tire and look for the bubbles- beer will work too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiktrip Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 pour water on the tire and look for the bubbles- beer will work too....I hope Ken doesn't see this. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Togo Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 If this happens to anyone else and you are near 101 and Raintree/Cactus I have all the necessary stuff in my garage to plug tires. Maybe we should have a Corvette Saturday and I will show everyone how to do it. You can get everything at a parts store for about $5-$10 and it will fit in the glove compartment... Book a place and get an old tire.. I will gladly demonstrate. By the way, I have plugged sidewalls too for my own stuff... not that noticeable on the inside... $190 cheaper as well... maybe just for this reason (you volunteering your garage) we could get a list....telephone numbers and addresses? to keep in the car with us? in the event of an emergency? we look to be spread all over the valley! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steve Mulvey Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 If we do a list, it will be on paper. I have enough "spam" on my email and it would not be clever to post the locations of all these Corvettes for the local car thieves... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Togo Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 If we do a list, it will be on paper. I have enough "spam" on my email and it would not be clever to post the locations of all these Corvettes for the local car thieves... perhaps a wallet size card we could have printed up? i think it could save some of our rearends in a crisis situation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nort99 Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 What a great idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarence Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 And what a pain in the arse it is to have a flat and no spare! I was on the 101 headed north about McDowell when I drove over something and it made a hole in the tire about center tread. I couldn't get the guy at Advanced Tire to plug it for me because I had driven on it flat and the sidewall was worn down quite a bit and he said it was unsafe. I asked him how unsafe could it be when it just blew out at 75 on the freeway, but he still wouldn't fix it. I tried the glue stuff that comes with the inflator kit, but that was a joke. There was a hole in the tire half as big as a pencil and when I put air in, the stuff just blew out all over the side of the car, and it's dried now and I don't know how I'm going to get it off. #@%&!I finally talked the guy into plugging the tire while it was on the car and I was able to make it home. If I would have been in BFE I would have been screwed and probably paid several hundred dollars or more just for a tow.First time with a flat for me, but I'm wary now...That's precisely what makes me leery of getting regular tires as opposed to the run-flats that I currently have on my Vette. They are the stock Goodyear F1 EMT's, and I have heard how they suck with regards to noise and harsh ride, and just don't allow the car to handle to it's potential. But if they can get me home or to a tire shop, I'll take the trade-off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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