Two Tyres Punctured!

[Smowball]

Have got back from garage after seeing both rear tyres looking low and they found nails in not one but both rear tyres!
Coincidence ? ( or maybe I've really hacked someone off!!)

[bookbinder]

It looks as though you have just driven past a building site, or where some renovation was going on.

[gingejbee]

Yes...I'm always a bit wary driving past workmen doing stuff at the back of their large vehicles because I've seen nails and screws being dropped and ignored on local properties.

[Smowball]

But they were long nails, so wherever they've come from they would be laying flat on the road surely so I can't see how they embedded themselves like that.

[bookbinder]

If the nails were lying with their heads towards your approaching car, I suppose it's possible for your tyres to flick the nails (almost) upright, so that they just caught in the tyres.

[Flonska]

Depending upon location and the extent of the Council's budget that provides ancillary services, roads are not swept as often as they used to be. It is not surprising that the incidence of damage to tyres (and wheels) has, sadly, increased as a consequence.

[Smowball]

Well whatever's happened it's flipping annoying! Grrrr

[Flonska]

Agreed - esp if you have had to foot the bill. Good job though it had been discovered and fixed as it was - you might have been driving at speed and had to have hit the brakes suddenly. That might have been a more costly and/or possibly more serious?

If the nails fell off a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction to you say at 30 mph and you were travelling at the same speed they could have bounced up off the road and hit your tyre.

The impact speed would be close to the equivalent of the nails hitting a stationary object at close to 60 mph - sufficient to embed them partially, at least, in the tyre. They would have been pushed in further as soon as your wheel completed the next rotation - just like banging them in with a hammer.

It has been demonstrated that at the right wind speed (e.g during a hurricane), a single sheet of paper has been blown "edge on" into a tree and was later found embedded several inches deep.