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AIBU or does this look deliberate?

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Crazyhouse123 · 29/01/2020 10:50

Hi, so tyre pressure warning light came on in the car this morning. Stopped at the garage and there is this massive screw almost on the edge of the tyre.

DP used the car last night said the light came on just as he got home so didn't check in the dark and late, and left before I was up this morning.

I think that it would be very odd to pick up a screw almost on the side of the tyre. But I am aware that it may be possible so just wonder what the consensus is on here?

Very annoying as unlikely to be able to be repaired safely on the side like that and the tyres are new within the last year.

AIBU or does this look deliberate?
OP posts:
tempester28 · 29/01/2020 12:19

I would not assume this was deliberate. Completely possible that it is just from the road. Have had similar occur.

adaline · 29/01/2020 12:20

It's totally normal - annoying, but normal!

I had a puncture like that last summer - a month after I'd had to replace the tyre for wear and tear!

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 29/01/2020 12:24

I've had lots of punctures, it's just unlucky. I don't think yours is deliberate as the garage I was taking my car too would have been able to fix that one.

Now I've got low profile tyres though... new tyre, every time.

badg3r · 29/01/2020 12:30

I think it is more likely to be accidental. Not quite the same but I once got a three inch nail through my bike wheel while cycling, it went in one side of the tyre and out the other!! Absolutely no idea how it could have happened but it was while cycling and deflated immediately, so obviously just a freak accident.

MistyCloud · 29/01/2020 12:30

@Crazyhouse123 Not necessarily deliberate no. This EXACT thing happened to us. (3-4 years ago.)

Also, our local tyre fitter place was able to repair it. I think they only charged about £10.

Take it in to your local tyre fitter.

Ceebs85 · 29/01/2020 12:33

I've had it twice in the last 3 months. Both repairable luckily so cost me £15 each time

Doesn't look malicious

Nofunkingworriesmate · 29/01/2020 12:35

When we were having building work and had messy builders our neighbor had 3 punctures from sharp bits left by our builder

mencken · 29/01/2020 12:35

if you got a warning light then presumably you have run-flat tyres? not repairable.

a financial and an eco-disaster. Love to know who thought that one up.

Justaboy · 29/01/2020 12:41

Don't fret no one is out to do away with you! Had this happen a lot of times sometimes its a nail sometimes a screw most of the time it just leads to a very slow leak of air as the screw or nail seals up the hole , well almost seals it!

They might be able to repair that, may not take it to a decent tyre place and ask them!.

adaline · 29/01/2020 12:45

if you got a warning light then presumably you have run-flat tyres?

Not necessarily. My car beeps to let me know if my tyre pressure drops below a certain level. All I need to do in that situation is pump them up!

Jaxhog · 29/01/2020 12:45

I've had this a few times. Just passing a building site can do it. Some builders seem to leave nails and screws all over the place.

speakout · 29/01/2020 12:55

I have had a couple of punctures like that too OP. Years apart, different areas of town.

It didn't cross my mind that it may be deliberate.

Welltroddenpath · 29/01/2020 12:56

It could be but equally it might just be random bad luck. Me and dh had a period of nails in both our tyres. We live where he works and did have a feeling it was deliberate by a rather strange neighbour.

After that I stopped buying expensive top range tyres. The neighbour has moved and I haven’t had a nail since. So yes, it could be malicious. Reason I think it was this neighbour was because my son used to go to school with his dd. Me and the wife got on, but he was just strange. The wife invited my son to play but when she went out he sent my son home and locked his door, but didn’t unlock his garden gate or tell me and just left my son of five screaming in his garden. I didn’t let my son go round there again. After that we both had nails in tyres. Proper weirdo!

Deelish75 · 29/01/2020 13:18

I can understand your frustration as the tyres are fairly new.
One year I had to replace my car windscreen three times, just kept getting chipped, I witnessed it happen on one occasion so I knew it wasn't deliberate it was just one of those annoying shit happens type of things.

starfishmummy · 29/01/2020 13:31

It may have happened a few days ago, if it was plugging the hole then the oressure may have been going down very gradually

saraclara · 29/01/2020 13:35

Yep. It can take a long time for the pressure to go down noticeably with a nail in the tyre. The guy at the tyre place told me that often there's quite a tight seal.

combatbarbie · 29/01/2020 13:43

Yup.... Twice its happened to me!! Both times the guys at kwik fit repaired for free.

wherethewavesarehighest · 29/01/2020 13:47

We had it happen to us, someone had left broken up furniture next to the bin we park on front of. Dp thought it was deliberate too, but we do live in quite a rough area.

Shufflebumnessie · 29/01/2020 13:56

I had it happen twice within a month early last year. I did begin to wonder if someone had a vendetta against me but I think it was just pure bad luck. Very annoying but thankfully it hasn't happened since.

AlexaAmbidextra · 29/01/2020 13:57

It does look deliberate. Have you got any enemies?

😂. How on earth do you come to that conclusion from just looking at a photo?

OneHanded · 29/01/2020 14:20

Unfortunately happens a lot! Saying that I once had a rivet on a cycle path go straight through my bike tyre and completely popped and flattened it. Went bloody flying and it was 32 degrees out 😅

Imperialmeasurements · 29/01/2020 14:30

I don’t think it’s deliberate at all. It happens.

DowntownAbby · 29/01/2020 14:41

@Crazyhouse123 it will need a new tyre.

They can't repair punctures if they are close to the edge like that.

I fell foul of a very similar issue with a new tyre I'd only had on for about 250 miles when I got a screw in it. The tyre was over £250 as well! Shock

Fink · 29/01/2020 14:43

It's happened to me before, very similar place on the tyre while I was parked in a public carpark. So yes, it could easily be accidental.

Winterwoollies · 29/01/2020 21:36

It’s really common to pick up a nail or screw. People leave them lying in the road, the weight of the car flips them up and in they go. You’re not the victim of a hate campaign of minor inconveniences 🙄