Flat again.
By ingrid
@ridingbet (66854)
Philippines
April 26, 2016 5:52am CST
The rear right tyre of the car is always getting deflated after 2 days of driving. Because of this, I and my son went to a vulcanizing shop and have it checked. There were no holes in the tyre but the grease around the hub cub is always removed because the dogs pee on that wheel. I even cover the wheel with, hush, a poster of a candidate for local election, to keep it from getting wet with the pee.
The tyre is okay… for now. Besides, it is already years old and it needs to be replaced with a new one. Hope it won’t get flat when we will go to church on Sunday.
How often do you let your tyres be checked by the automobile shop? Is it when the tyres get deflated, or you bring them routinely?
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16 responses
@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
27 Apr 16
@ridingbet No, what you imagine are barbed wires are the snow chains, you put them over the tires if there is a lot of snow. The winter tires have deeper tread than summer tires. Deep tread depths allow the tire to manage light snow.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
29 Apr 16
@LadyDuck oh, so those are not barbed wires. i thought they are barbed wires. sorry.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
27 Apr 16
nice we don't put winter tyres here, because we are always on summer tyres. winter tyres have those barbed wires? or so in thought they are barbed wires
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@toniganzon (77064)
• Philippines
26 Apr 16
Only when it's deflated. When they expire, I just buy a new one.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
27 Apr 16
i hope the tyre won't get out of air again, because having them inflated every 2-3 days is already expensive, so we thought why not buy a new tyre now?
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
29 Apr 16
@toniganzon yes, we will change it tomorrow. yesterday, the tyre went totally down and flat, and the inside was already peeping out.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
8 May 16
we have already bought a new tyre my friend, and it was placed in that wheel where the flat tyre was.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
29 Apr 16
I hope your tire doesn't get flat anymore.. Not often do I get a flat.. tire inspection is performed when we do oil changes or car related services yearly.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
30 Apr 16
@ridingbet That is good and safer to have the new tire 
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
30 Apr 16
@ridingbet Yes- you are correct. I am glad to hear you got new tires, so you can't prevent from anything happening (accidents).
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
30 Apr 16
it was totally deflated days ago after we inflated it, my friend. this morning, i drove to the shop and bought another tyre.
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Hey , you look so relaxed in the picture . Walking the dog ?@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
28 Apr 16
@ridingbet It's a nice picture . You look happy and bagets .
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
27 Apr 16
i should have that knowledge my lady, because i am the one using the car. hahaha!
that picture of mine was taken last year pa, and i had that elbow-length of hair yet. we went early to the store to buy the dogs their food.
that picture of mine was taken last year pa, and i had that elbow-length of hair yet. we went early to the store to buy the dogs their food.1 person likes this
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
29 Apr 16
@SIMPLYD heheh! happy? yes i am, bagets? maybe forgets? hahaha! yes, i dress that way, my friend. i dress bagets.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
27 Apr 16
why every 5 months? is that the normal life expectancy of a tyre? i asked one who works in a vulcanizing shop and he said a tyre should be "alive for only 3 years", then change it when worn-out now.
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@ida123 (6206)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
27 Apr 16
@ridingbet
It depends on where your vehicle is going, my husband used our jeep in going to the farm where their is rough road and our car is used only in the city so it's tire has longer life compared to that tire of our jeep, he is always buying tires for the jeep.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
29 Apr 16
@ida123 i don't drive in farms, or rivers, but just along highways and cemented roads.
@LdeL0318 (6400)
• Philippines
26 Apr 16
I just had one of my car's tire vulcanized. I picked a nail somewhere causing the tire to be flat every other day.
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
26 Apr 16
we've had our share of vehicles through the years, but i don't think such a thing happened. it's the firs time i've heard of it, to be honest.
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
27 Apr 16
thanks. that photo was taken last year yet, and i had my long hair.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
27 Apr 16
It could also be possible that because of dog's urine on your tire rims, the rim's edges are no longer even and, i your tires are the tubes ones, air could slowly leak out on the rim's edges. Another possible would be dislocated inlet valve. Sometimes, when you add air into the tires, the spring on the inlet valve does not position properly thus the slow leak out of the valve. These are some of the possibilities.
@brokenbee (11937)
• Philippines
26 Apr 16
I am not sure how often my brother does that but they had changed one tire last February.
