Drove With No Tire Air

[dilan_randika]

Drove about 4Km with patched Tubeless tire.

Could't notice till other drivers/bikers pointed it out.

Any harm to the alloy wheel can happen?

[Strikeee]

It depends upon the road condition you drove.....

better to get it checked with a tire place....

[maheshw]

you may visit to a tyre shop and inspect for any corner damages. do a tyre balance and check.

[Reckless]

  On 7/31/2014 at 7:22 AM, dilan_randika said:

Drove about 4Km with patched Tubeless tire.

Could't notice till other drivers/bikers pointed it out.

Any harm to the alloy wheel can happen?

Dude how could you not feel the difference? On an uneven road with even low tire pressure you will likely feel deference in the steering.

[pug306xsi]

  On 7/31/2014 at 7:22 AM, dilan_randika said:

Drove about 4Km with patched Tubeless tire.

Could't notice till other drivers/bikers pointed it out.

Any harm to the alloy wheel can happen?

Remove the tyre from the Alloy/Rim check if the inner walls are damaged. If so there will be black rubber powder/bits & check if you loose air within a day or two.

[trinity]

  On 7/31/2014 at 7:44 AM, Reckless said:

Dude how could you not feel the difference? On an uneven road with even low tire pressure you will likely feel deference in the steering.

NO you don't.. happened to me also.. Front right hand side tire.. drove about a kilometer, only thing that stopped me was the noise which I faintly overheard amidst the banging of the subwoofer.. it was 3.00am on the Aththidiya road.. I was partially drunk though (until I stepped out to see that mother of a flat tire..)

[Watchman]

  On 7/31/2014 at 9:55 AM, trinity said:

NO you don't.. happened to me also.. Front right hand side tire.. drove about a kilometer, only thing that stopped me was the noise which I faintly overheard amidst the banging of the subwoofer.. it was 3.00am on the Aththidiya road.. I was partially drunk though (until I stepped out to see that mother of a flat tire..)

Drunk driving is nothing to brag about

[The Don]

  On 7/31/2014 at 7:22 AM, dilan_randika said:

Drove about 4Km with patched Tubeless tire.

Could't notice till other drivers/bikers pointed it out.

Any harm to the alloy wheel can happen?

Take the wheel to a tyre shop with a wheel balancing machine, and ask them how much the wheel is out of balance. Beyond certain parameters the wheel will have to be re aligned. I think Macro auto tech has a machine that can do it.

[trinity]

  On 7/31/2014 at 11:16 AM, Watchman said:

Drunk driving is nothing to brag about [/

I said I was partially drunk merely cuz I wanted to explain the exact situation. I was actually having some alcohol in the system that time and I wanted to tell who ever reads the comment that it might have played a role me not noticing the flat tire.So you see that as bragging about drunk driving .

Bragging about drunk driving would be if I said," I was drunk like shit and drove the car @ 140 kmph waiving through traffic, took couple of bends like in Tokyo drift & reached home like superman thanks to the booze. Ah and there was a flat tire too"..

[trinity]

Back to the topic, ironically one of my front tires went kapoot in the evening. This time I could not drive even drive few meters without drastically noticing it. This time the car was stationary when I tried to take off with the flat tire.. And I was not drunk.

[Bracket]

<quote>I was drunk like shit and drove the car @ 140 kmph waiving through traffic, took couple of bends like in Tokyo drift & reached home like superman thanks to the booze. Ah and there was a flat tire too..</quote>

Tried to imagine superman driving a Lancer and Batman trying to catch up with batmobile marvel would hire me to write scripts for them if they knew about my imagination powers

Back on topic, I drove my wagonR once without air in front left side tyre,about 2 km. side wall of the tyre was torn like a canvas tyre had barely done 5000 km and it was the factory-fitted tyre. (Bridgestone)

Edited July 31, 2014 by Bracket

[Davy]

I'm so sensitive (or paranoid maybe) to a level where sometimes I start feeling as if a tire has gone flat (or losing air) and even stop on the side of the road, get down and check them to find four perfectly inflated tires. So I really can't understand how one can drive for 4km without noticing.

[Komisiripala]

Had a blowout on E01 in dads pulsar. Nearly died. Lost control is putting it mildly. Luckily didn't hit anything. By the time it took me to come to 100-0, use engine braking since hitting the brakes meant car skids to inflated side, and avoiding traffic and not hitting the guardrail, the blown tyre came off the rim and I had gouged a fair distance of Tarmac with the steelie.

So yeah, you feel a flat. Like a freight train in the face

[Watchman]

  On 7/31/2014 at 2:47 PM, trinity said:

Back to the topic, ironically one of my front tires went kapoot in the evening. This time I could not drive even drive few meters without drastically noticing it. This time the car was stationary when I tried to take off with the flat tire.. And I was not drunk.

#1 karma's a bitch

#2 If the alcohol rendered you incapable of realizing that the vehicle you're operating is in a hazardous state and not road worthy, that's reason enough to lobby against drunk driving. And you're a prime example: if your senses are aware of a flat Tyre within a few meters when sober, but can't sense it for about a kilometer when under the influence, you SHOULDN'T be under the influence.

Anyway, no point going OT on this thread. We all just need to remember that more often than not, DUI accidents arent due to people who think "Ohh shit! I'm piss drunk, but f%$k public safety i'm gonna drive anyway" but rather people who think "It was just 1/2/3 drinks. I'm still fine".

[kmeeg]

Another thing is some cars have a low tire pressure indicator. It will indicate way before you get your tires go flat as it indicates even you're 2 or 3 psi below the limit. I've heard there's after market ones as well.

Also when filling air I normally fill a little over the limit and use a little air pressure gauge to release air to correct pressure. Cheap and handy gadget. But if you're filling with digital gauge air pumps I think this gadget will be useless.

In summary check for after market low tire pressure indicator and if you like to have some simple gadgets check for that small air pressure monitor which has a release button.

KMeeg.

[terrabytetango]

I've driven twice that I can remember on nearly flat tires. In Colombo traffic it really isn't apparent until the rims start scraping the asphalt, by which time the tire is a write off. Lowest tire pressure was like 7 psi, in the rear.

[trinity]

  On 8/1/2014 at 2:17 AM, Watchman said:

#1 karma's a bitch

#2 If the alcohol rendered you incapable of realizing that the vehicle you're operating is in a hazardous state and not road worthy, that's reason enough to lobby against drunk driving. And you're a prime example: if your senses are aware of a flat Tyre within a few meters when sober, but can't sense it for about a kilometer when under the influence, you SHOULDN'T be under the influence.

Anyway, no point going OT on this thread. We all just need to remember that more often than not, DUI accidents arent due to people who think "Ohh shit! I'm piss drunk, but f%$k public safety i'm gonna drive anyway" but rather people who think "It was just 1/2/3 drinks. I'm still fine".

#1 Ow bang... since this thread is on flat tires let me share the yesterdays experience as well. Didn't notice the flat tire since is was on left hand side. Reason for going flat is not a puncture nor a leaking valve, but a damage inner wall of the tire. Only time that it could've happen was when the new tire was installed.

Tire is about 8000kms old and never gone flat before. So the only time it would have got damaged when it was installed at the tire shop.

I usually check tire pressure every other week and maintain them evenly through out. This month I could not do that. This explains the reason the tire not going flat earlier. When the tire looses air gradually it makes a gap between the rim & the tire due to the unevenness of the tire wall. We usually never look in to these things. I learnt it the hard way. So just a heads up for you guys..

#2 My point too.. But you highlighted it the wrong way and seems few others have seen it the same.. Anyways sorry for making the comment in a way that led you guys to misinterpret it.

Cheers!

[bagUrE]

What happened to this, which was advertised heavily sometime back?

http://www.saturngrip.com/products.php?cat=3&subcat=9&pro=10

[vishkid]

What about noticing a flat but driving 600m to a tyre shop because you're a lazy ass in a hurry

Guilty, but the tyre and wheel survived.

[eyepea]

Once I drove with a rear almost flat tire and did not notice it until a pedestrian pointed it out.

I was moving slowly (kind of speed when looking at house numbers) on a well paved lane. And the distance traveled

would have been about 100m. Btw, it is rear wheel driven vehicle.

I put this down to my inexperience.

When there is a significant pressure difference between the front tires, I have experienced a pull to one side. Sometime the car feels extra bumpy. So I think that if a front tire goes flat and moving fast, I may notice it.

But am wondering what symptoms should I feel, if a rear tire is flat or almost flat ?

(depending on speed, road surface, front/rear wheel drive etc)

  On 7/31/2014 at 7:44 AM, Reckless said:

Dude how could you not feel the difference? On an uneven road with even low tire pressure you will likely feel deference in the steering.

Above point I presume may be for a front tire?

thanks

Edited August 1, 2014 by eyepea

[The Don]

I once destroyed a tyre running flat as well. The tyre went flat while I was on the baseline in near stationary slow moving traffic so did not realise. As I pulled away from the Senanayake junction I realised the flat and pulled into the closes tyre shop. Tyre could not be saved, but thankfully had full sized spares those days.

[carboy2011]

Once drove with a flat tyre on the way to Kandy for maybe 500-600 metres in the old Lancer A72 to the tyre shop, both tyre and tube were gone for good!

[asrock]

  On 8/1/2014 at 10:05 AM, vishkid said:

What about noticing a flat but driving 600m to a tyre shop because you're a lazy ass in a hurry

Guilty, but the tyre and wheel survived.

Happened to me too. But I was traveling on a narrow road with a bit of traffic and there was no place to pull over without obstructing traffic. So I had to drag the car with the flat tire over 1Km till I found a tire shop. Luckily both the tire and rim was not heavily damaged but it was smoking like it had caught fire. The moment the tire went flat I felt something was wrong with the car and I was sure that the front left tire was gone, and people on bikes started to point it out too. Also I felt something unusual when taking bends even at low speeds.