Has This Ever Happened to Anyone Before?

[Evolution]

Not the find I was hoping for today. A flat tire in the middle of nowhere. Had to find a large flat rock to put under the jack because the ground was soft. Not the best day but I brought a few keepers home nonetheless. A couple flat buttons and a smoked large copper that's probably a counterfeit KG. I'm gonna dump it in the peroxide but I'm not expecting any detail. Read up lower on my Etrac than a US large cent would.

 

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[Terry Soloman]

I was out in the Arizona back country a good 20-miles when a sharp rock cut through the sidewall of my $400.00 Pro Comp. I got skunked that day. At least you made some nice finds!

 

[trapperart]

Sorry for your bad luck but congrats on the old copper and buttons

 

[kingskid1611]

Congrats!

 

[WHADIFIND]

Yep. But, I carry a couple cans of Fix A Flat for just that purpose. I don't like using it, but, it served to get me back out of the woods.

Congrats on the saves!

 

[ScubaDetector]

Luckily not in a very very long time. I am getting too old for changing tires out in the middle of nowhere.

Hope you can find something on that disk to identify it.

 

[nsdq]

Yep. But, I carry a couple cans of Fix A Flat for just that purpose. I don't like using it, but, it served to get me back out of the woods.

Congrats on the saves!

I have never any luck with using that stuff. but tire plugs old plug hole adapter for compression gauge and air line attached to it ith a air chuck , ya pull one plug put adapter in crank eng but do not start it and it ill air tire up , good trick i learned in a 4x4 club .

 

[Honest Samuel]

At times like these, I am happy that I do not own a car nor a truck. Great finds.

 

[DaleinFL]

Dealing w a flat is a bad day but getting out and hitting the wood and finding anything is a great day, so at least you had both.

 

[Johncoho]

What part of Arizona were you in? My wife and I winter there in Apache Junction. Belong to a local club, Superstition west Treasure hunters.

I was out in the Arizona back country a good 20-miles when a sharp rock cut through the sidewall of my $400.00 Pro Comp. I got skunked that day. At least you made some nice finds!

 

[Evolution]

I was out in the Arizona back country a good 20-miles when a sharp rock cut through the sidewall of my $400.00 Pro Comp. I got skunked that day. At least you made some nice finds!

I certainly wasn't 20 miles deep but it would have been very hard to explain to a tow truck driver where the heck I was if I had a problem with the spare or had been unable to jack the truck up in the soft ground. Compared to you I was only slightly off the beaten path. Thanks for the reply.

 

[Chug And Red]

yep Last Night 172.00 later Was getting ready to take red to her sisters house for a Girls Weekend And Boom The radiator Blew Dropped her off today HH Chug

 

[against the wind]

That's a tough break. I ride a motorcycle. I won't take it off a paved road unless it is a dry hard pack. No gravel roads for me. I have ridden through every state in the lower 48. I got a flat in Virginia once and a couple of bikers helped me out by getting me a can of FIX A FLAT. Then it was straight to a Harley shop for new tires. Flats are not fun.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Glad you got some keepers for the trouble....

 

[WHADIFIND]

I have never any luck with using that stuff. but tire plugs old plug hole adapter for compression gauge and air line attached to it ith a air chuck , ya pull one plug put adapter in crank eng but do not start it and it ill air tire up , good trick i learned in a 4x4 club .

I like to start with the simplest fix first, then, I increasingly get more like MacGyver.

I also carry some tire plugs. If the hole is just a nail or some such, I'll pull and plug. THEN, Fix A Flat.

If it's a sidewall cut, I just rig a hoist over a tree and just lift the whole car off the ground and change the tire.

 

[fongu]

Have to take the good with the bad and since I've been disabled, I call AAA for changing tires and had several service calls to the river when the car battery died on me. Best money you will ever spend and they will get to you no matter where you are including the back of a field one time and I've never met one of their people they use with a bad attitude. Nice finds.

 

[romeo-1]

Happened to me just a couple weeks ago...always fun!