This was the hardest I've hit a rock, in 50 years of driving.
Tell your wife not to feel bad, cause I did a double disaster yesterday. Still holding air though, surprisingly. A piece of the tread is flopping off the steel plys. I'm not driving it anywhere, and will remove the wheel and put the front on jack stands to take both wheels and tires to the tire store.
public roadways are no fun. Nobody wants to repair them. We had to pay the county to fix them inside Buckingham Park and they assessed about $250 on taxes for 5 years. These are public roads also...your place sounds nice, maybe we can meet each other at some point, but I have my hands full at the moment...my landlord's leech field is pooched on his septic system, and unfortunately my basement toilet is the first entry point to backup. Wait until he find out how much it cost to replace the leech field...my rent ain't gonna cover it...if they need to remove old leech field, and build a new one, he's in for a shocker when he gets the bill.
The rim may be shot, that I'm not sure yet, but the bead seals lower and I think I can pound that back. I will find out today. I think both tires are shot, and will order 2 new Yokohamas, put both the new tires on the fronts, and keep the bad rim for the spare. In theory I won't use that much, but I want a solid spare, if nothing more than having one for AAA to replace.
Those tires have definitely seen better days! I'm really glad you made it home safely!@Eastenerwesterner
Give me your thoughts on these wheels. This is the wheel and tire I destroyed. I think it's safe to say that this tire is NOT patchable.
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This is the spare wheel, the bottom is where the separation is happening:
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What I'm hoping is that I can take a hammer and persuade that wheel back into shape. The bead doesn't need anything to pop into place, I've done this on my Tacoma after I lost the lower ball joint...that was pretty terrifying.
I don't have road hazard on these tires, so my plan is to order another Yokohama Avid Touring tire and order a Kumo of the same size ($92 for Kumo, $111 for Yokohama), and put the Kumo for the spare. I thought the spare had air, but after I got home it was on the ground. I filled it to 36 lbs. last night and it's still holding today. I can move it around to get on flat ground to use jack stands.
