Never seen anything like this before! The edge of an EPIC FAIL.

[ChampTrucking]

I work @ a High School. We have the only Auto Shop in the Corporation. I stroll up and see two of the students screwing around with a door latch on a Chevy pickup.( These two boys have zero interest in the class BTW,or school for that matter. They just took it as a filler on their schedule.) An old habit from working @ a full service Gas Station when I was young causes me to look at the tires of any vehicle I am near. I sold a lot of tires that way. So I look down @ the right front tire and HOLY SHIT I think I am seeing things! It appears there is not much more than 1/8 ths of an inch of tire bead holding onto the missing chunk of aluminum wheel! The Teacher and I were both floored. What is worse is the punk kid driving had NO IDEA it was like that and we had to explain why it was a bad thing! To top it off he had a flat spare tire!! So I gave him my spare to get home on.

It was his Grandpa's truck and who knows how long it has been like that! Really I am amazed still that it was holding air and somebody has been driving on it!

[SpiderGearsMan]

teach the punks how to excel like flat rate millionaires

[RAIV70Judge]

YIKES!!!!!! But I bet they can beat the he11 out of me in video games.....

[Scott Liggett]

Yeah, but they know how to get gas into it........maybe.

[Teddyzee]

Surprising what will hold air... This thing did:



Of course, I deflated it and pulled it off immediately...

[Beagle]

Teddyzee for the win. Ouch.

I did that to a cobra rim on my Mustang playing one day, hit a 10mph cloverleaf at 70, "hit it" being the operative phrase. Verts just don't want to stop, heavy bastards. It peeled off about 6 inches of lip. The spare was good but the fix-a-flat thing that fills it was not... so I nursed it home on the side streets. I never got it above 35 but it was shaking pretty bad at 35. I was amazed that it held air, which it did for 3 more days.

How can you not see that, much less not feel that?

[milner351]

what's worse is the kids parents let them drive it..... aside from the busted wheel - look at the tire - how can you not see that's got no tread left on it?

[Beagle]

what's worse is the kids parents let them drive it..... aside from the busted wheel - look at the tire - how can you not see that's got no tread left on it?

they may MAKE them drive it. Here, kid, go play in traffic.

(cough)

[SpiderGearsMan]

looks like you were driving in JERSEY CITY

[TheSilverBuick]

what's worse is the kids parents let them drive it..... aside from the busted wheel - look at the tire - how can you not see that's got no tread left on it?

X2!!

[Barry Donovan]

wow.
don't be shamed by bad builds with the alloys..that is not often.


that breaking bead is a reason some @ 15x6 look like 15x8



this is 1987 rally peugeot..still smacked with tortures of maine today. (I kept all rare 8 of them)

[Scott Liggett]

Kind of people you see driving down the road on a flat tire.

[BOOOGHAR]

ive driven on worse

[Chassisman]

Gotta thin the gene pool somehow...........

[Gary 351C]

A few nights ago I was behind a Ford Expedition getting onto the freeway. When they made a hrd right onto the onramp there were sparks coming from the steel cord hanging out of the left front tire. There's something else that amazes me, how many times have you seen a car not more than 3 or 4 years old and it's totally beat to shit?