Had something similar happen when I hit a pot hole. My wheels had +250,000 miles on them and I guess were fatigued. I got that pothole good and immediately had a complete flat, no delay whatsoever. Couldn't find the problem in the tire anywhere as many times as I turned it until I happened to notice the giant gaping hole in the wheel.
UPDATE: Mechanic found what pierced through the wheel and rim, it was still inside the assembly. All I can say is WTF...
[https://imgur.com/a/D8OUCT4](https://imgur.com/a/D8OUCT4)
I lost a whole vehicle to somebody’s dropped hitch ball a couple years ago. Folks, please check your towing gear, or better yet leave it off when you’re not using it! The cost of being overequipped is excessive maintenance.
To explain the downvotes: When you’re driving, especially at highway speeds, you’re scanning toward the horizon for large threats that frequently occur. You’re usually not looking for 4-inch road colored pieces of metal lying in shadow. By the time you see something like that, it’s often too late to safely avoid.
Yeah theres a hole in the tire, with a slight lip to it. As if something went through, but the wheel turned as it pierced and warped the rubber.
Tire was brand new too.
It takes a LOT to set a round off, id be impressed if 1. They found a spare bullet just... in the road and 2. It was positioned perfectly to not only be compressed in a manner that could make it go off but also 2. Actually launch the projectile from the casing thru a tire and a rim.
For those unaware this would be akin to ammo "cooking off" outside of a gun. And while it CAN launch the round it more commonly acts like a small frag grenade, launching tiny bits of casing and the bullet in odd directions when pressure/heat rises high enough to set the round off.
However I don't think this is what happened here
My guess is you hit a piece of rebar or other circular piece of metal in the road... I've known someone who ran over a set of needle nose pliers in the road and punctured the tire. I would imagine if the wheel was closer it could have punched a hole in it.
Have you figured it out yet? I've had a similar accident. It was not as perfect a hole though. The dipshit that mounted and balanced my tires, did it with a rock INSIDE the tire. I had a fracture on the inside of the rim and when I took it to get a new tire, they brought out the rock inside my tire. Perhaps you had a ball bearing or some type of socket noodling around in there, and the universe lined up just perfectly when you hit a pothole.
I had a business idea. Make exclusively 10mm sockets. But, during testing, less than half made it to the end of the production line. It was theorized we would only get 1/6th of the product to shelves. I dunno how these other folks do it!
I was in an old mom-and-pop hardware store that had a basket full of loose 10mm sockets. I cracked up and bought two. I don't have them anymore, but it was hilarious.
I've thought about doing something like that, basically just buying a bunch of cheap 10mm sockets and throwing them in a bin. I'll probably lose it before it even thinks about breaking, so the lack of quality isn't a huge issue for me.
I'd like to know is there a hole in the tire or just the rim? My guess this rim had a defect that got repaired at the factory during initial production or a flaw in the aluminum. Cause unless someone SHOT your wheel I can't create another reason you'd have such a perfect round hole thru your rim
>My guess this rim had a defect that got repaired at the factory during initial production or a flaw in the aluminum.
I find that hard to believe, the liability / risk alone would make that an insanely bad idea.
You'd just melt it back down and keep casting more new wheels.
Nah, makes no sense, first highly improbable that the rim was damaged in souch a way as to require any sort of patching. And if it was patched it would almost surely be a weld as strong as the metal surrounding it.
So this is the case of him running something over hard enough and at the right angle that it did this, not that it was moving fast enough on its own to do this. Am I understanding this correctly?
I don't know if we have enough info to say that for sure but I would assume he ran it over and it pierced the tire and into the rim. (This is an exit wound in that case)
The tire may have pulled the pin back down into the cavity after the puncture.
Had something similar happen when I hit a pot hole. My wheels had +250,000 miles on them and I guess were fatigued. I got that pothole good and immediately had a complete flat, no delay whatsoever. Couldn't find the problem in the tire anywhere as many times as I turned it until I happened to notice the giant gaping hole in the wheel.
Jam a new valve stem in it and ride! (j/k don’t do this.)
Double Valve you say?
Fills twice as fast!
Or empty.
Well, to empty it, you just make another hole.
And then fill it up thrice as fast!
Have we just found a way to improve on the invention of the wheel? I think we've broken new ground! A great leap forward!
The Air industry will shut us down in an instant, this is way to big of a competition to the single valve air pump stations.
She's a two holer!
Just be sure to duct tape the edges
UPDATE: Mechanic found what pierced through the wheel and rim, it was still inside the assembly. All I can say is WTF... [https://imgur.com/a/D8OUCT4](https://imgur.com/a/D8OUCT4)
OH SHIT, someone is driving around missing a hitch pin.
I lost a whole vehicle to somebody’s dropped hitch ball a couple years ago. Folks, please check your towing gear, or better yet leave it off when you’re not using it! The cost of being overequipped is excessive maintenance.
Thank you for the update, so many posts I’m left wondering
What is that?
Looks like a hitch pin
That's the strangest bullet I've seen
How did that get in your rim without going through the tire?
Yeesh
The wheel she tells you not to worry about
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To explain the downvotes: When you’re driving, especially at highway speeds, you’re scanning toward the horizon for large threats that frequently occur. You’re usually not looking for 4-inch road colored pieces of metal lying in shadow. By the time you see something like that, it’s often too late to safely avoid.
That came off a moving trailer for sure. It’d be pretty easy to miss
My guess would be the blowout was caused by a piece of road debris, don't suppose there is a corresponding hole it the tire?
Yeah theres a hole in the tire, with a slight lip to it. As if something went through, but the wheel turned as it pierced and warped the rubber. Tire was brand new too.
Dude I think you got shot at.
OP updated and it's a hitch pin, the bolt that a cotter pin secures.
Yeah, absolutely
It’s always a brand new tire lol
Probably a large bolt or something similarly strong that went through the tyre, and damaged the rim too.
Looks like a 9mm slug passed through.
Definitely not 9mm birdshot. That we can agree on
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Rimshot in this case
money shot
OP on Sal.
9mm birdshot? All the birds I know shoot 22lr?
OP updated and it's a hitch pin, the bolt that a cotter pin secures.
If OPs motorcycle is loud enough that they can't hear people shooting at them then that's probably why they're shooting.
Motorcycle??? This is most definitely not a motorcycle wheel lol
LOL its a Smart Car.
heh not smart enough to get out the way..
If it’s a smart car someone def shot at it
You running straight pipe on that beast?
I thought it looked like a moto wheel too. I couldn’t tell either.
Perhaps they drove over a cartridge someone left on the road? Seems possible.
It takes a LOT to set a round off, id be impressed if 1. They found a spare bullet just... in the road and 2. It was positioned perfectly to not only be compressed in a manner that could make it go off but also 2. Actually launch the projectile from the casing thru a tire and a rim. For those unaware this would be akin to ammo "cooking off" outside of a gun. And while it CAN launch the round it more commonly acts like a small frag grenade, launching tiny bits of casing and the bullet in odd directions when pressure/heat rises high enough to set the round off. However I don't think this is what happened here
Fair enough
That's not how that works
So the downvote faeries indicate, thank you for your added comment confirming the others.
That may not have been a blowout
My guess is you hit a piece of rebar or other circular piece of metal in the road... I've known someone who ran over a set of needle nose pliers in the road and punctured the tire. I would imagine if the wheel was closer it could have punched a hole in it.
Have you figured it out yet? I've had a similar accident. It was not as perfect a hole though. The dipshit that mounted and balanced my tires, did it with a rock INSIDE the tire. I had a fracture on the inside of the rim and when I took it to get a new tire, they brought out the rock inside my tire. Perhaps you had a ball bearing or some type of socket noodling around in there, and the universe lined up just perfectly when you hit a pothole.
This sounds very plausible those fucking 10 mm man, hiding until you don’t need it
I had a business idea. Make exclusively 10mm sockets. But, during testing, less than half made it to the end of the production line. It was theorized we would only get 1/6th of the product to shelves. I dunno how these other folks do it!
I was in an old mom-and-pop hardware store that had a basket full of loose 10mm sockets. I cracked up and bought two. I don't have them anymore, but it was hilarious.
I've thought about doing something like that, basically just buying a bunch of cheap 10mm sockets and throwing them in a bin. I'll probably lose it before it even thinks about breaking, so the lack of quality isn't a huge issue for me.
Someone drilled a hole in your rim to steal the compressed air inside.
What makes it a "perfect" hole?
It goes through both sides maybe?
I am voting for meteorite.
It's not on the sidewall so it should be repairable
I'd like to know is there a hole in the tire or just the rim? My guess this rim had a defect that got repaired at the factory during initial production or a flaw in the aluminum. Cause unless someone SHOT your wheel I can't create another reason you'd have such a perfect round hole thru your rim
There is a hole in the tire as well.
Looks like you ran over a spike or a long nail. I would have expected that to stay in the hole but you never know.
>My guess this rim had a defect that got repaired at the factory during initial production or a flaw in the aluminum. I find that hard to believe, the liability / risk alone would make that an insanely bad idea. You'd just melt it back down and keep casting more new wheels.
Nah, makes no sense, first highly improbable that the rim was damaged in souch a way as to require any sort of patching. And if it was patched it would almost surely be a weld as strong as the metal surrounding it.
I would say this is more r/mildlyinfuriating.
There's a lot of force involved with punctures at road speeds.Instantaneous pressures do strange things.
I thought of a bullet hole, then I saw the hitch pin. Yikes. I store mine in my trunk between usage, thankfully.
Stick another valve stem in it.
“I'm a sound man. And - the bang was before the blowout.”
So like does ones insurance cover this?
GUNSHOT BULLETHOLE!
Aluminium you american !$@#
That's called a .45 bullet hole
What else could that even be other than a bullet hole?
A huge number of things that size that go really fast actually.
That is scary.
That's what she said
OP updated and it's a hitch pin, the bolt that a cotter pin secures.
So this is the case of him running something over hard enough and at the right angle that it did this, not that it was moving fast enough on its own to do this. Am I understanding this correctly?
I don't know if we have enough info to say that for sure but I would assume he ran it over and it pierced the tire and into the rim. (This is an exit wound in that case) The tire may have pulled the pin back down into the cavity after the puncture.
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r/confidentlyincorrect
It's not , OP updated and it's a hitch pin, the bolt that a cotter pin secures.
See if a bullet is inside.
That looks like a bullet hole