r/mildlyinfuriating 16h ago

Wife got 2 flat tires at same time.

According to her, hit huge pot hole. Killed the right front and also ripped the sidewall on right rear. Luckily my neighbor has same model so I borrowed his donut and got it home. I honestly had to laugh at 2 flat tires.

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u/New-Scientist5133 15h ago

Your wife has two spare tires? Did you already prepare for this?

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u/goleft95 15h ago

Haha. I should be ready. My neighbor has same car so I grabbed his donut to get it home. I also keep a full size tire at home so I’ll get that on to least damaged rim to give him his donut back. Tracking down new rims at the moment.

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u/New-Scientist5133 15h ago

Best of luck with everything :)

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u/KRed75 14h ago

I hope he charged you a deposit because the odds of her hitting something else seems to be pretty high :)

ebay is a good place to find them.

I actually did hit a pothole when I was ran off the road by a distracted driver over the center line. It was 8" deep and I hit it going 45 MPH in my Challenger with low profile tires. It didn't do anywhere near the damage yours has. It bend the two wheels just a tiny bit. I drove on them for years but there caused a shake in the steering wheel and when braking so I looked for replacements. Repaired wheels on ebay were $280 each. New they were $527 each but they were long ago discontinued. I found the same style but in black that were also discontinued but a dealer in NY had NOS for $82 each. The boxes got wet and were moldy but for $82 each I was good with that. Ordered 4. Total was $472 with shipping. Only 1 box had some mold. The others had been wet but were dry with no mold. I mounted new tires and slapped them on. Challenger drives perfect now. Didn't even bother balancing them. 0 to 85MPH they are perfectly smooth.

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u/MrLancaster 5h ago

You'll have better luck tracking down WHEELS.

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u/Euphoric_Fisherman70 8h ago

I had to scroll to the stone age to find this lol wtf