Yep. “Pinch cuts” is what my old boss would call those, from the rim edge rolling over the folded sidewall as it was driven on flat. It was indeed flat when you got home.
But if driven the whole way home on a flat, there would be other damage. I drove 250 ft after puncturing a tire at about 45 miles an hour and the lettering area on the tire showed severe wear where it was folding. There are none of the telltale signs here. Just the cuts. To me, they look like knife wounds. I say that because the fold marks from driving flat are missing. All the lettering area would show the same as the inside, a worn out area where the rubber overheated from folding. If you zoom close, the tire looks perfect minus the cuts.
And how does someone not feel that when they turn the wheel? How do you not hear the thumping? Feel the vibrating steering wheel?
Did OP drive home drunk last night?
Rear tire with relatively low profile doesn't really start thumping until looking about like OP. I just had one, pulled over ASAP when I felt it and it looked very similar.
I drove from Flagstaff to Phoenix (2.25 hours-ish) one time with a flat tire on the rear... That thing was shreeeedded on the inside. But I never knew it was flat!
I’m a car guy. I build vehicles. Recently I hopped in my wife’s car not paying attention and started driving a couple blocks to the store as my first stop. The vehicle was pulling to the right. My first and only thought was once again she hit something and messed the suspension up. I couldn’t see the passenger side while driving. And just figured I was making another part list when home. I got to the store and saw the flat. It made no sound or vibration whatsoever, only pulled to the right. Luckily, it didn’t hurt the tire but I replaced all 4 right after.
Edit: some of you are super upset I didn’t instantly notice in my neighborhood on the 4 block drive to the store. Under 25mph low profile tires, no vibration at that speed only a slight pull on her heavy steering. I wasn’t on a freeway going 60 for miles. We’re talking driving only about 3 minutes entirely with a max speed of 25mph. Tpms was already broken which had an appointment to be replaced (and missed because of scheduling conflict) so the light was always on. I carry a pump in her car as an emergency always and used it to get to the tire shop. She was due up for new tires regardless. It’s entertaining seeing how many people got upset over this. I’d love to go through some of your vehicles and see what’s going on with them for you.
Hey car guy. If your car is turning to the right badly, it’s generally a good idea to stop and check to make sure it’s not something obvious like… driving on a flat tire.
Exactly. My first car had faulty tpms so it showed I had 0 psi in my tires and to check if I actually had lost any pressure I’d let go of the wheel and see if it drove straight or pulled to either side
Not necessarily, cars are setup to pull left slightly so that you can drive straight down the road crown, with a RF low you probably wouldn't notice it until too late
That's true but he did say his wife was driving the car previously and he probably has a lot of stories to tell about his wife driving the car and him having to fix it all the time due to her driving.😷
My wife has gotten much better about it, but she used to hit things and destroy vehicles. The two most hilarious responses I have gotten from other people were "no one makes that part because that vehicle is too new to be breaking" at the parts store. And "what did insurance say after the accident" when getting a smoke test at the exhaust shop.
I can laugh about it now, but when someone is singlehandedly preventing your family from achieving their financial goals becuase they can't be bothered to pay the fuck attention...
Yes, I came home one night with an unknown slow leak and in the morning when we left. I got about 30 feet from my driveway before I could tell I had a flat.
I pulled out about a 3" piece of a coil spring from the left rear tire.
True. But I didn’t say it was pulling badly. It was just a slight pull. I wasn’t driving out of my neighborhood either so it wasn’t very noticeable. It’s not as if I was driving my jeep on a flat tire
I backed over some sticks and small branches getting to the trailer. That night about halfway through my two mile drive it started making a noise and I just assumed one of the sticks was hitting the wheel or axle. Nope I drove on it completely flat. I also didn't have my jack. Had to get a new tire.
I'm a car guy. I've got in three cars as a passenger and told the driver they had a flat tire in a short distance. Driver doesn't believe me until I persuade them to pull over. I never understand how I can tell as a passenger, but a driver can't.
I’ve seen it a few times and my friends a tire guy, he saw this all the time when he was doing passenger tires. People are seriously clueless sometimes. I’ve driven a km or so on a flat purposely before because it was on its last season and about to be changed and thrown out. I will never forget the sound. It amazes me how people can’t hear it at low speeds
I was going 45mph in my Geo Metro Convertible and somebody rolled down their windows to shout at me I had a flat. I actually had 2… when I tell you the car felt no different, believe me, and that car had full manual rack & pinion steering and homeopathic suspension so nothing insulated it from the feeling either.
In my case, somebody did slice my tires.
Flat rear tires with low profile are basically asymptomatic until you turn with speed. I know I've had a few. But on a steer tire with a tall sidewall you're not going anywhere. Lol.
We had a flat 15 years ago on a brand new 4 hour old car. Got pulled over by guy flashing behind. Flat on the rear. We had no idea. Had a similar issue with a car using same chassis (alfa mito) a few years later. No indication it was virtually flat at all
I had an old 80s Buick when I was younger, front passenger tire went flat going down the highway and there was only a mild vibration, didn't even pull to the right, wasn't till I showed down on the next offramp that I could really feel what was going on.
In contrast I had the same thing happen on a Ford tempo, which had a pretty violent reaction. I ended up bumping into the divider wall because it jerked so hard when the tire blew.
Before anyone comments, yes when I was young I literally drove the tires off my cars, it wasn't safe and I don't recommend it. My thought was if the belts aren't showing and it's still holding air, it's good enough to drive another day.
Last two times I had a flat, two different cars, I didn't feel it at all. There was no thumping or vibration. First one I knew because I felt it die as I hit a pothole. The entire city got new tires that week. Second one just kinda deflated, so I didn't notice until I got to my destination.
My very first time I drove with a flat, I pulled out of my parking space, made it 2 spaces ahead and I stopped because something was VERY obviously wrong. I really have no idea how anyone could not know
I used to always wonder if I’d be able to know if I got a flat tire (my tire pressure sensor is just always on and my car is old), and it turns out, yes you can, when you’re turning the wheel, it doesn’t feel right. It pulled to one side. My tire wasn’t completely flat but it almost was. I was able to fix it.
I had a blow out in my Tacoma but didn’t realize it until I got onto the highway, I was leaving a bass party in the woods so I’m assuming it was in a tree stump or something and I just couldn’t hear it
Bigger question is why didn’t they get out and look at the tires when the TPMS low pressure light illuminated. It’s been federally mandated on new vehicles since 2007, so the OP’s car would need to be 17+ years old not to have it.
Not sure in OPs case, but those systems don't always stay in good working order. The system is completely inop on one of my cars. It doesn't affect anything else, it just turns on the dash light. Visually inspecting the tires and checking the pressure manually works.
Definitely hit something dui, or maybe kid took car for short drive to store and hit something or maybe someone in household took car? If it was blow out on road tire ussually shreds. The 4 rips look like hitting curb hard at low speed close to home.
Yeah this is the pattern of a tire that’s folding so badly on the bottom with every revolution that it shreds like this. It requires driving on a tire with basically no air in it.
Nobody ever stabs a tire over and over like this. The first hole pretty much does the job.
The damage is absolutely from driving on it flat for a few blocks. Try to remember... did your car feel weird for a while towards the end of your trip?
Makes no sense to be a malicious act. The first gash would instantly flatten your tire... you need a GOOD knife and decent power to drive it through a tire. Why stay and stab it 4 times and perfectly spaced.... it would make more sense to stab all your tires once than one tire 4 times.
You drove on it flat and the wheel made those cuts.
lol that's true.
I just meant that this could have been prevented before it happened if they just saw the yellow (!) and then just simply checked their tire pressure before driving lol
The only issue I have with the under inflation theory is there are no rub marks where the rim rode on the tire. It's very distinctive, and absent from this picture. I'd have to examine this in person to make a definitive conclusion.
Those do not look like knife wounds to me. It looks like it was driven on with low air pressure, causing the tire to overheat and break down the rubber in the four spots. It also doesn't look like their isn't much tread on the tire itself. When was the tire manufactured?
You definitely drove on it completely flat, you had to feel that. You didn’t wake up to it that way, it was that way when you parked it. Those punctures are from driving on it flat.
Ok let me rephrase that, driven while underinflated weakening the sidewall. After that I was just a matter of time for it to tear itself open. Also I've seen way too many of these and customers always claim they didn't drive on it underinflated.
Looks a little suspect to me. Consistent with a knife blade in puncture length. The one puncture looks like it blew outwards but a knife blade against the rubber could pull it out. On the other hand, it’s a Bridgestone Ecopia which uses a very hard compound. Running on a flat for a couple of blocks could’ve made the rubber split in that manner.
In conclusion;
I don’t know.
you are completely oblivious to the noises and sensations in your environment and your car, and you drove on a very flat tire . You are the reason I cross my heart every time I get home safe every day. LOL Oh and I feel sorry for the people who have to live in your complex.
Yet another person with zero mechanical sympathy.
You drive this home while it was flat. How did you not feel it?
But no, it must be those meddling kids.
Not sure what everyone is smoking on this post but you got stabbed chief. If you drove flat it would have a wear line around the center of the sidewall. This is malicious and very obvious too. Stabbed and cut around a bit. I’d check any nearby security cameras Source: I’m a mechanic
Everybody is saying that OP drove on this flat the night before, but I genuinely don’t understand how driving on it flat could create those tears. I don’t know much about tires, clearly, but I’m just curious about the physics behind it. I 100% though it was stabbed
When tires deflate and are driven on the area where the tire meets the ground starts to crinkle up due to their being no air to keep the tire in shape. The steel belts that create the bead and give strength to the sidewalls gets kinked and will literally crack said sidewall, hence the picture. The flange of the rim is applying tons of pressure directly through the rubber and steel, into the pavement.
Just a little tidbit of information but tires don't have steel belts in the sidewall There's a steel bead around the edge and the steel belts are in the tread area The sidewalls have a fabric belt to allow for some flexibility
Never had a flat tire myself, but I have the habit of checking all 4 tires before and after driving. Just a quick walkaround because I do most of my driving on the highway, and the last thing I want is a deflated tire at 75 mph. I also noticed that someone dinged my right door at a parking lot, but the other car was already gone.
those tires are problematic i only had 7000 miles and got a bubble got that fixed now tire light will not go off consistently losing air i called bridgestone and i have a feeling they know these tires are trash
You drove home on a flat. Because i had a puncture on the same brand of tyre two weeks ago.
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Modern low profile tires have stiff sidewalls so it's difficult to tell that they're flat or very low sometimes.
It's not a bad idea to look down and around at your tires once in a while. Especially if the low tire pressure light comes on.
I started driving with a deflated rear tyre one day.
Didn't notice the difference in town, which had bumpy and often changing surface. Out on the highway it became noisy... and a destroye tyre.
If it was a blowout, you’d almost certainly have a single hole. Those look like slashed tires. You should check for key marks and other destruction on your car.
Maybe you parked in someone’s unofficial spot.
It’s kind of hard to see from this angle but it looks like the tread is dangerously thin. It’s possible you needed new tires when you bought the car, then driving on it for six months just finished it off. Like everybody else has said, this is a flat that was driven on. Might need a whole new set of tires if the rest have thin tread like this one.
Looks like you drove on a flat, it would only take one puncture to flatten the tire. Four is just not necessary. Now I will admit it does look odd, non of my blowouts or flats ever looked like that. But ones where I drove on them flat or semi flat did.
At a.quick glance it looks.like a knife pucnture.. but a closer look , it look like.it was rum flat .. when you take it off liim for a nail or hole in the tread
Either you drove on a flat which is possible without noticing under certain circumstances or somebody really hates your guts.. any exes in the picture?
It's a lot harder to slide a tire with a knife than people think. A stab is hard enough, a full slice is almost impossible for many people. Can be done but requires a lot of force and effort. Four of them or more, rAgged like that?
You drove on it flat and didn't notice.
My daughter's car had a rear tire look exactly like that, but on the inside so impossible to see until it went 💥 so yeah, I'm laying over on normal signs of a flat tire
Do knives fly around in the neighborhood? If not, someone cut the tire. Did they do one tire or all four? Used to be if all four tires were cut, insurance would pay, but not for one, two, or three.
Who have you pissed off lately? You may be next. First the tire, then the driver.
From my limited experience, getting cut hurts. Sometimes it hurts a lot.
Never seen a spontaneous puncture like that, my guess is someone did that to your tire if the punctures are all the way through the inner casing as well.
Like to me like someone took a knife to it. You’d have noticed something the night before as those aren’t “slow
Leaks. “. Not a mechanic but have had two blowouts from a large pothole and a large rock in the road in the last year and a half with similar big holes and I noticed it right away that something was pulling strongly all of a sudden and it felt different. I’m both cases. The fact that there are multiple approximately even spaced points to malicious behavior to me.
At first glance I would have said it was slashed, but no one slashes a tire at the bottom near the ground and it's not easy to stab a tire several more times after it's gone flat.
The higher pressure in the tire is what makes the first stab relatively easy, after that it gets much much more difficult, not to mention pointless as the tires already flat and destroyed at that point.
You dragged your tire against some sharp grating or something on your way home and like others have said, because of the low profile and it being in the year, you just didn't feel it
Sidewalls are the weakest part. Yet that doesnt look malicious to me. The cuts are too jagged. Tires have pressure so when you slash em you do it fast in one quick motion. There would also be no reason to do multiple slashes like that. Or opportunity.
Possibly could be an over inflated tire and or warranty issue.
Most air compressors don’t go high enough to blow out a car tire. You’ll be lucky to find one at a gas station that has 100psi, and it’ll take a lot more to blow out a car tire.
That's what a tire looks like after it's been driven on while flat.
Yep. “Pinch cuts” is what my old boss would call those, from the rim edge rolling over the folded sidewall as it was driven on flat. It was indeed flat when you got home.
But if driven the whole way home on a flat, there would be other damage. I drove 250 ft after puncturing a tire at about 45 miles an hour and the lettering area on the tire showed severe wear where it was folding. There are none of the telltale signs here. Just the cuts. To me, they look like knife wounds. I say that because the fold marks from driving flat are missing. All the lettering area would show the same as the inside, a worn out area where the rubber overheated from folding. If you zoom close, the tire looks perfect minus the cuts.
You got home with a flat tire
And how does someone not feel that when they turn the wheel? How do you not hear the thumping? Feel the vibrating steering wheel? Did OP drive home drunk last night?
Rear tire with relatively low profile doesn't really start thumping until looking about like OP. I just had one, pulled over ASAP when I felt it and it looked very similar.
I drove from Flagstaff to Phoenix (2.25 hours-ish) one time with a flat tire on the rear... That thing was shreeeedded on the inside. But I never knew it was flat!
Nailed it
I’m a car guy. I build vehicles. Recently I hopped in my wife’s car not paying attention and started driving a couple blocks to the store as my first stop. The vehicle was pulling to the right. My first and only thought was once again she hit something and messed the suspension up. I couldn’t see the passenger side while driving. And just figured I was making another part list when home. I got to the store and saw the flat. It made no sound or vibration whatsoever, only pulled to the right. Luckily, it didn’t hurt the tire but I replaced all 4 right after. Edit: some of you are super upset I didn’t instantly notice in my neighborhood on the 4 block drive to the store. Under 25mph low profile tires, no vibration at that speed only a slight pull on her heavy steering. I wasn’t on a freeway going 60 for miles. We’re talking driving only about 3 minutes entirely with a max speed of 25mph. Tpms was already broken which had an appointment to be replaced (and missed because of scheduling conflict) so the light was always on. I carry a pump in her car as an emergency always and used it to get to the tire shop. She was due up for new tires regardless. It’s entertaining seeing how many people got upset over this. I’d love to go through some of your vehicles and see what’s going on with them for you.
Hey car guy. If your car is turning to the right badly, it’s generally a good idea to stop and check to make sure it’s not something obvious like… driving on a flat tire.
Exactly. My first car had faulty tpms so it showed I had 0 psi in my tires and to check if I actually had lost any pressure I’d let go of the wheel and see if it drove straight or pulled to either side
Well that doesn't exactly work if it's one of the back tires that's flat.
Maybe a truck with a 8ft bed. Any commuter car with a shorter wheelbase? It’s gonna pull to one side and not stay in the lane by itself.
Oh interesting
Not necessarily, cars are setup to pull left slightly so that you can drive straight down the road crown, with a RF low you probably wouldn't notice it until too late
Woahhh no way :)
That's true but he did say his wife was driving the car previously and he probably has a lot of stories to tell about his wife driving the car and him having to fix it all the time due to her driving.😷
My wife has gotten much better about it, but she used to hit things and destroy vehicles. The two most hilarious responses I have gotten from other people were "no one makes that part because that vehicle is too new to be breaking" at the parts store. And "what did insurance say after the accident" when getting a smoke test at the exhaust shop. I can laugh about it now, but when someone is singlehandedly preventing your family from achieving their financial goals becuase they can't be bothered to pay the fuck attention...
Yes, I came home one night with an unknown slow leak and in the morning when we left. I got about 30 feet from my driveway before I could tell I had a flat. I pulled out about a 3" piece of a coil spring from the left rear tire.
Or a broken/bent tie rod
True. But I didn’t say it was pulling badly. It was just a slight pull. I wasn’t driving out of my neighborhood either so it wasn’t very noticeable. It’s not as if I was driving my jeep on a flat tire
You must not have a wife.
I backed over some sticks and small branches getting to the trailer. That night about halfway through my two mile drive it started making a noise and I just assumed one of the sticks was hitting the wheel or axle. Nope I drove on it completely flat. I also didn't have my jack. Had to get a new tire.
The low profile tires it's still hard to feel it's a flat sometimes. I've replaced quite a few tires the customer never knew it was flat.
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Rim*. Unless you thought you could patch the tire, but your comment doesn't make sense to suggest that remotely.
I didn’t care about her wheel. I had already ordered replacements tracking down a a bent one. All I needed was to pump it up and patch it.
I'm a car guy. I've got in three cars as a passenger and told the driver they had a flat tire in a short distance. Driver doesn't believe me until I persuade them to pull over. I never understand how I can tell as a passenger, but a driver can't.
Could have just grabbed a used tyre off eBay. How often did you check the tyre pressure cold?
She was due up anyway for tires. Her g35s eats up the rears. I don’t check her tires unless changing the oil. So about every 2 months.
I was going 60mph on the freeway in my SUV with a flat tyre no instability or anything....
Dod you notice when you slowed down?
I ran my golf with 5psi by mistake
In Moab?
Haha, no.... on roads with michelin pilot sport 5 while the other 3 were up at 33 or 34psi.
I’ve seen it a few times and my friends a tire guy, he saw this all the time when he was doing passenger tires. People are seriously clueless sometimes. I’ve driven a km or so on a flat purposely before because it was on its last season and about to be changed and thrown out. I will never forget the sound. It amazes me how people can’t hear it at low speeds
I was going over 100mph when my passenger steer went i only noticed cause i heard it
You’d be surprised with the music going
I was going 45mph in my Geo Metro Convertible and somebody rolled down their windows to shout at me I had a flat. I actually had 2… when I tell you the car felt no different, believe me, and that car had full manual rack & pinion steering and homeopathic suspension so nothing insulated it from the feeling either. In my case, somebody did slice my tires.
Flat rear tires with low profile are basically asymptomatic until you turn with speed. I know I've had a few. But on a steer tire with a tall sidewall you're not going anywhere. Lol.
We had a flat 15 years ago on a brand new 4 hour old car. Got pulled over by guy flashing behind. Flat on the rear. We had no idea. Had a similar issue with a car using same chassis (alfa mito) a few years later. No indication it was virtually flat at all
3 or 4 times my tires have been fine driving home, no warning light on, and then the next morning one is completely deflated.
New tires are remarkably smooth when they are run flat, up to when the rim cuts thru the sidewall. There really don't feel flat till they come apart.
I had an old 80s Buick when I was younger, front passenger tire went flat going down the highway and there was only a mild vibration, didn't even pull to the right, wasn't till I showed down on the next offramp that I could really feel what was going on. In contrast I had the same thing happen on a Ford tempo, which had a pretty violent reaction. I ended up bumping into the divider wall because it jerked so hard when the tire blew. Before anyone comments, yes when I was young I literally drove the tires off my cars, it wasn't safe and I don't recommend it. My thought was if the belts aren't showing and it's still holding air, it's good enough to drive another day.
There are soooo many completely BRAINDEAD people walking, "living" amongst us. It's never any less scary. Lol
Last two times I had a flat, two different cars, I didn't feel it at all. There was no thumping or vibration. First one I knew because I felt it die as I hit a pothole. The entire city got new tires that week. Second one just kinda deflated, so I didn't notice until I got to my destination.
My very first time I drove with a flat, I pulled out of my parking space, made it 2 spaces ahead and I stopped because something was VERY obviously wrong. I really have no idea how anyone could not know
I used to always wonder if I’d be able to know if I got a flat tire (my tire pressure sensor is just always on and my car is old), and it turns out, yes you can, when you’re turning the wheel, it doesn’t feel right. It pulled to one side. My tire wasn’t completely flat but it almost was. I was able to fix it.
I had a blow out in my Tacoma but didn’t realize it until I got onto the highway, I was leaving a bass party in the woods so I’m assuming it was in a tree stump or something and I just couldn’t hear it
My wife drove to work and back on a flat. The car had very low profile tires. She left a black mark down the road when she drove home
Bigger question is why didn’t they get out and look at the tires when the TPMS low pressure light illuminated. It’s been federally mandated on new vehicles since 2007, so the OP’s car would need to be 17+ years old not to have it.
Not sure in OPs case, but those systems don't always stay in good working order. The system is completely inop on one of my cars. It doesn't affect anything else, it just turns on the dash light. Visually inspecting the tires and checking the pressure manually works.
not everyone is american..
Definitely hit something dui, or maybe kid took car for short drive to store and hit something or maybe someone in household took car? If it was blow out on road tire ussually shreds. The 4 rips look like hitting curb hard at low speed close to home.
No, you just read that drunk it says he found it like that in the morning
Yeah this is the pattern of a tire that’s folding so badly on the bottom with every revolution that it shreds like this. It requires driving on a tire with basically no air in it. Nobody ever stabs a tire over and over like this. The first hole pretty much does the job.
This is from driving on it flat.
Any tire can be a run flat if you're determined enough.
This. 100%.
🤣 no it must have been those damn neighborhood teenage hooligans 11!
The stabbed the tire in almost perfect spacing
I get out my ruler when I stab tires.
I use a harbor freight sextant personally
No way HF sells sextants, really?!
They do
Like hog wire.
It wasn’t fine last night
Someone could have driven while they were sleep. Especially if you have teenagers.
must have been very drunk.
It is if you turn the music up loud enough and ignore all the thuds, vibrations and wheel shaking
At first I only saw the first break. The comments are correct, they are evenly spaced. When you take off the tire you’ll see a lot of rubbings inside.
Bro, you drove on a flat tire.
OP you want 35 psi not 3.5 psi
They went with that .350 psi....
It's only flat on the bottom
You went to sleep with a flat tire as well.
Is there a bunch of rubber shavings on the inside of the tire?
The damage is absolutely from driving on it flat for a few blocks. Try to remember... did your car feel weird for a while towards the end of your trip? Makes no sense to be a malicious act. The first gash would instantly flatten your tire... you need a GOOD knife and decent power to drive it through a tire. Why stay and stab it 4 times and perfectly spaced.... it would make more sense to stab all your tires once than one tire 4 times. You drove on it flat and the wheel made those cuts.
This is one of those times where having working TPMS comes in handy.
I mean. They drove on a flat tire. You feel that. Not sure another light on the dashboard would have clued in OP.
lol that's true. I just meant that this could have been prevented before it happened if they just saw the yellow (!) and then just simply checked their tire pressure before driving lol
Looks like my underwear I just took out of service.
That's been drivin on flat
You should consider turning down your stereo while driving.
Did you drift across tire spikes at the parking garage?
more like driving it flat for tens of miles.
Did you wake up with an extremely bad hangover and no memories of driving home?
That was caused by driving on it while flat.
That is a tire that has been driven on while flat
Driven on flat.
Any chance you were driving it home from a bar late last night?
Driving underinflated will do that.
What mischief could cause that? You hit something and then drove on it. That is what happened.
Riding on a flat…
Youve had a flat tire since yesterday or the day before
The only issue I have with the under inflation theory is there are no rub marks where the rim rode on the tire. It's very distinctive, and absent from this picture. I'd have to examine this in person to make a definitive conclusion.
Looks like OP was drunk and hit a curb on the way home.
That pattern looks like you hit something.
This is a symptom, not cause. You drove it flat causing the sidewall to fail.
That’s either from driving on a flat tire, or you drove over a spike strip. I don’t think this would be much of a surprise lol
Was a tire tech for many years many years. The only time I saw damage like this is when someone would drive on the flat.
My guess is you live in a gated complex and entered the exit gate.
Those spikes wouldn’t leave evenly spaced holes in the side wall they would be across the treads.
Those do not look like knife wounds to me. It looks like it was driven on with low air pressure, causing the tire to overheat and break down the rubber in the four spots. It also doesn't look like their isn't much tread on the tire itself. When was the tire manufactured?
They look like stab holes BUT they are equidistant so a flat tyre being driven on is the answer
As everyone else has said, that’s run-flat damage. Pretty significant I’d say. You drove for a while on that.
Anyone who thinks this is slashed is a moron or a shitty mechanic.
Not intensional damage. I mean how many times would you slash a tire, once ruins it. And you don’t want to hang around to get caught.
"Natural causes" 🤣 Sorry about your luck, OP, but that made me chuckle
4 vertical incisions, spaces 4-5 inches apart? Yeah, no, that cannot happen “naturally” on a rotating tire. Someone intentionally cut it with a blade.
You definitely drove on it completely flat, you had to feel that. You didn’t wake up to it that way, it was that way when you parked it. Those punctures are from driving on it flat.
Looks like they were stabbed with a knife
Looks like a pothole slashed your tire
~~It is knife damage. Four stabs, sharp instrument.~~ Edit: I'm going back to my room. Underinflation for the win.
Wrong. That's from being driven flat
Said he "woke up to a flat". Unless he went to bed blind drunk and forget to mention it, OP probably didn't drive it flat.
Ok let me rephrase that, driven while underinflated weakening the sidewall. After that I was just a matter of time for it to tear itself open. Also I've seen way too many of these and customers always claim they didn't drive on it underinflated.
You're right. Edited my stupidity above.
Some people just don't have mechanical sympathy and don't pay attention to the car feeling different.
Give him his upvotes back he corrected himself
no he didn't . "underinflation" doesn't cause that. Driving on a flat does.
Is a flat not a servere case of underinflation? Edit: spelling
Looks a little suspect to me. Consistent with a knife blade in puncture length. The one puncture looks like it blew outwards but a knife blade against the rubber could pull it out. On the other hand, it’s a Bridgestone Ecopia which uses a very hard compound. Running on a flat for a couple of blocks could’ve made the rubber split in that manner. In conclusion; I don’t know.
you are completely oblivious to the noises and sensations in your environment and your car, and you drove on a very flat tire . You are the reason I cross my heart every time I get home safe every day. LOL Oh and I feel sorry for the people who have to live in your complex.
must have been the way back from the bar...
Yet another person with zero mechanical sympathy. You drive this home while it was flat. How did you not feel it? But no, it must be those meddling kids.
And their dog too.
i think that it was Scooby Doo and the gang ! They're always meddling into something !
Naturally idiotic, you drove around with a flat... did you not feel or hear it?..
The “I drove on a flat for a month, then patched it and drove on it the rest of the year” special
The plug in the sidewall works JUST FINE THANK YOU
Not sure what everyone is smoking on this post but you got stabbed chief. If you drove flat it would have a wear line around the center of the sidewall. This is malicious and very obvious too. Stabbed and cut around a bit. I’d check any nearby security cameras Source: I’m a mechanic
Everybody is saying that OP drove on this flat the night before, but I genuinely don’t understand how driving on it flat could create those tears. I don’t know much about tires, clearly, but I’m just curious about the physics behind it. I 100% though it was stabbed
When tires deflate and are driven on the area where the tire meets the ground starts to crinkle up due to their being no air to keep the tire in shape. The steel belts that create the bead and give strength to the sidewalls gets kinked and will literally crack said sidewall, hence the picture. The flange of the rim is applying tons of pressure directly through the rubber and steel, into the pavement.
Just a little tidbit of information but tires don't have steel belts in the sidewall There's a steel bead around the edge and the steel belts are in the tread area The sidewalls have a fabric belt to allow for some flexibility
An act of vandalism 🤫
One of the areas tha tlooks stabbed, is already crushed under the rim, which likely means it arrived like that.
Never had a flat tire myself, but I have the habit of checking all 4 tires before and after driving. Just a quick walkaround because I do most of my driving on the highway, and the last thing I want is a deflated tire at 75 mph. I also noticed that someone dinged my right door at a parking lot, but the other car was already gone.
Where you outrunning the police? That looks like a tack strip they'd throw out to puncture your tires in multiple places.
those tires are problematic i only had 7000 miles and got a bubble got that fixed now tire light will not go off consistently losing air i called bridgestone and i have a feeling they know these tires are trash
Hog wire for concrete reinforcement might leave a scar like that.
Had a bad at work yesterday?
The spacing would make me suspicious 🤔
You drove home on a flat. Because i had a puncture on the same brand of tyre two weeks ago. https://preview.redd.it/dw80ye9vrq5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44a40bce4770176a42e32dfa733dd69d2d2d2719
Modern low profile tires have stiff sidewalls so it's difficult to tell that they're flat or very low sometimes. It's not a bad idea to look down and around at your tires once in a while. Especially if the low tire pressure light comes on.
Regardless of cause, the only way to proceed it to the trunk for the spare, then to the tire shop for a new one.
I count 5 punches in this photo. Show us the rest and inside wall as well OP
If you drive home with a flat, you’d see a worn spot where the tire essentially folded.
You maliciously drove home on that! Mabes turn you tunes down, lay off the bong, or the road pops, combo of all three. Mabes, just mabes.
I started driving with a deflated rear tyre one day. Didn't notice the difference in town, which had bumpy and often changing surface. Out on the highway it became noisy... and a destroye tyre.
If it was a blowout, you’d almost certainly have a single hole. Those look like slashed tires. You should check for key marks and other destruction on your car. Maybe you parked in someone’s unofficial spot.
both haha
Formed by itself naturally. Random failure.
It’s kind of hard to see from this angle but it looks like the tread is dangerously thin. It’s possible you needed new tires when you bought the car, then driving on it for six months just finished it off. Like everybody else has said, this is a flat that was driven on. Might need a whole new set of tires if the rest have thin tread like this one.
DONT PEOPLE LOOK AT /CHECK TIRE PRESSURES ANYMORE..JUST GET IN AND GO🤨
Looks like you drove on a flat, it would only take one puncture to flatten the tire. Four is just not necessary. Now I will admit it does look odd, non of my blowouts or flats ever looked like that. But ones where I drove on them flat or semi flat did.
At a.quick glance it looks.like a knife pucnture.. but a closer look , it look like.it was rum flat .. when you take it off liim for a nail or hole in the tread
Looks like mischief to me. It's tricky to hit a nail on the wall of your tire
Unless you’re running along side of Mad Max…. Safe to stick with Tom foolery!
Pretrip
Every time someone on this sub posts pictures asking if they got their tires slashed. EVERY TIME they were driving around on a flat
Looks like you drove it flat.
Either you drove on a flat which is possible without noticing under certain circumstances or somebody really hates your guts.. any exes in the picture?
Who had a little to drink last night?
Do you work at a bar? and maybe had some of your own stock before driving home😁...could explain not feeling the flat... just saying
Looks like blade marks. Might have been vandalized
It's a lot harder to slide a tire with a knife than people think. A stab is hard enough, a full slice is almost impossible for many people. Can be done but requires a lot of force and effort. Four of them or more, rAgged like that? You drove on it flat and didn't notice.
You rode with a flat tire. That's why it looks that way. Noone did yhis
Malice you would have noticed this when you were driving. It’s stabbed in the side wall most likely
You drove on it flat for a while.
My daughter's car had a rear tire look exactly like that, but on the inside so impossible to see until it went 💥 so yeah, I'm laying over on normal signs of a flat tire
Those slits are stab marks, someone flattened your tire
Have a few drinks before driving home last night? Lol
That looks like mischievous holes made intentionally
I feel violated every time I take my car to the mechanic. Anyone feel this way?
Someone did a curb check
That’s more than a flat. Someone slashed your tire.
Do knives fly around in the neighborhood? If not, someone cut the tire. Did they do one tire or all four? Used to be if all four tires were cut, insurance would pay, but not for one, two, or three. Who have you pissed off lately? You may be next. First the tire, then the driver. From my limited experience, getting cut hurts. Sometimes it hurts a lot.
wait a minute. you drove on a flat, didn't you?
Never seen a spontaneous puncture like that, my guess is someone did that to your tire if the punctures are all the way through the inner casing as well.
You have enemies.
Like to me like someone took a knife to it. You’d have noticed something the night before as those aren’t “slow Leaks. “. Not a mechanic but have had two blowouts from a large pothole and a large rock in the road in the last year and a half with similar big holes and I noticed it right away that something was pulling strongly all of a sudden and it felt different. I’m both cases. The fact that there are multiple approximately even spaced points to malicious behavior to me.
At first glance I would have said it was slashed, but no one slashes a tire at the bottom near the ground and it's not easy to stab a tire several more times after it's gone flat. The higher pressure in the tire is what makes the first stab relatively easy, after that it gets much much more difficult, not to mention pointless as the tires already flat and destroyed at that point. You dragged your tire against some sharp grating or something on your way home and like others have said, because of the low profile and it being in the year, you just didn't feel it
looks like knife damage to me was there a loose finger next to the wheel?? hah - that was on another thread
Did you recently break up with someone named Tiffany?
Someone drove back home drunk last night 🧐😂😂 That’s from driving on a flat. How can people not notice a flat tire is behind my understanding 🤦♂️
Sidewalls are the weakest part. Yet that doesnt look malicious to me. The cuts are too jagged. Tires have pressure so when you slash em you do it fast in one quick motion. There would also be no reason to do multiple slashes like that. Or opportunity. Possibly could be an over inflated tire and or warranty issue.
Most air compressors don’t go high enough to blow out a car tire. You’ll be lucky to find one at a gas station that has 100psi, and it’ll take a lot more to blow out a car tire.
What about an over inflated tire on purpose?