The FLAT TIRE files...

[T. Sanford]

Off topic a little bit but I used to work at a tire distributor shop a couple of years ago. My uncle stayed about block away & found out that I worked there. One day, the manager hosted a company meeting about inventory has been short & though it was an inside job. A couple of months after I quit for lack of raise. At a family gathering; I found out that my crack headed uncle used to sneak through one of the job's windows & used to break them off for their tires.

 

[leftcoastkev]

Was with my ex once when we got one. He tried to change it, was having technical difficulties and started mumbling shit to himself about not having the right equipment. I saw right through that shit. Nigga couldn't change a tire. We ended up calling triple A. Very quiet ride home cause he was embarrassed. I was embarrassed to be with him.

Maybe he ain't know what he was doing but if you/he had one of these tire jacks they are the absolute worse.

I can work with them but hate doing so because it takes forever.

As opposed to these which are great.

Sad tho. A lot of guys didn't have someone (dad, uncles) to teach them a lot of basic useful stuff.

That ain't enough tho.

This is typical of what I keep in MY rides. This was the back of my commuter ride from back in 2013 ('94 Toyota Previa). That toolbox has enough shit in it that I can perform quite a few major repairs on the side of the road and I've kept it in my cars since 2000. I've changed brakes, power steering and water pumps, and motor mounts on the side of the road in the past.

Yeah I see that 4-way lug wrench.

it's always funny to see an amatuer struggle to turn the lug off and you just come and step on the crossbar like it's magic.

 

[Qiv_Owan]

Was with my ex once when we got one. He tried to change it, was having technical difficulties and started mumbling shit to himself about not having the right equipment. I saw right through that shit. Nigga couldn't change a tire. We ended up calling triple A. Very quiet ride home cause he was embarrassed. I was embarrassed to be with him.

Maybe he ain't know what he was doing but if you/he had one of these tire jacks they are the absolute worse.

I can work with them but hate doing so because it takes forever.

As opposed to these which are great.

Sad tho. A lot of guys didn't have someone (dad, uncles) to teach them a lot of basic useful stuff.

That top jack aint a prob, just takes a lil elbow grease

I actually prefer that one

 

[yellowtapesport]

When you got big ass rims (1999-2007) and good insurance (and some fly shit on)...

Changin a tire ain't a option...

But y'all black oily hand mechanic niggas can carry on

 

[yellowtapesport]

For the record...I can change a tire on a HONDA CIVIC in under 15 mins too

 

[dalyricalbandit]

Last Nov took a drive from Brooklyn to Miami for a week getaway with a couple homies.

Anyways niggas got a rental linked up we pack our shit in the trunk everybody hops into a rental and niggas speed off.

We flying through the states it's about 230ish we in the bottom part of North Caroline when the tire sensor just lights up shit starts to decrease insanely fast then it starts to show red and make some sound like shit about to blow up so pull over in the middle of nowhere where the street poles are like a football field apart so it's dark as hell,it's cold as fuck, all I have on my right side is corn fields and to the left is the street which isn't wide enough so me and my homie step out check the shit We like bet it's nothing let's change this shit so now we got to take all this shit that's packed on the back meanwhile damn semi trucks start zooming by all u feel is the wind bounce off them shits and the SUV sway side to side so we get to the spare and the fucker isn't even a regular tire it's some bullshit donut so now I'm tight but fuck it I'm like we put this on and we keep it pushin till the am and stop at a shop but so I'm like yo pass me the jack to lift this shit and shit taking wild long for my boy to reply so I'm repeat that shit and my homie goes to that shit ain't in here at that point I'm pissed the fuck off i throw everything back in so we call the rental stop bark on them they send a repair guy out an hour passes and nothing another half passes I call up the dude and I'm like dog where u at u said u would be here an hour ago he's like I'm on such and such North bound parked but I don't see you guys I'm like you dick I'm on the southbound side so he goes over the grass divider parks up and it's some mullet having truck driver hat and overall wearing dude who was prob in his 20s but life must've been rough to him cause the kid looked aged so he changed that shit in like 3 mins we hop in and at this point I'm mad as shit for this whole problem that it say please don't do over 30 on the spare and I'm pushin that shit to 90 with no fucks given the plan was wait till morning when places open to get a new tire but I drove that shit all the fuckin way from NC to Miami on that Donut I pulled up to our condos threw the keys at my boy who rented that Vee and told him go change that shit he went and told him that car didn't have nothing to change the flat so the rental place ended up giving us another car and didn't charge us for the original or the replacement so we got that shit for free all we payed was gas and tolls.

We still made it before the time we had set so it was all good I guess

 

[konceptjones]

When you got big ass rims (1999-2007) and good insurance (and some fly shit on)...

Changin a tire ain't a option...

But y'all black oily hand mechanic niggas can carry on

you don't keep a pair of work gloves in the ride?

fuck kinda niggas is y'all????

 

[banginscrew901]

When you got big ass rims (1999-2007) and good insurance (and some fly shit on)...

Changin a tire ain't a option...

But y'all black oily hand mechanic niggas can carry on

I had 20's on my Chevy low pros too I caught a flat the 1st time And had that scissor jack took me for ever to change it I scraped my knuckles and everything that next day I tossed that bitch I the garbage can and then bought my a hydraulic one where it take 3 pumps and it's in the air I love that thing

 

[konceptjones]

Knew I had a bad sensor so I ignored the tire pressure light as usual. Got about 8 miles out and as I was going UP towards the 635 on-ramp I smelled rubber. Looked and the rear tire was going flat. I had the G coupe Negative camber & Slightly stretched Low pro so I could barley feel it.

I was on the on ramp by then so I had to crawl about half a mile to get to a shoulder.

Sliced thru the tire.

Get there and I had custom lugs for the negative offset wheels so my tire iron was the wrong size.

So I called Roadside, 2 hour estimate.

Luckily called one my swoops came to sit with me and her Honda tire iron fit.

damn... them shits almost slicks. What were you expecting to happen after not changing your tires for so long??? Low profile tires get fragile as fuck fast as hell. I know you were out there with your foot down in the G37 so you gotta change them joints regularly.

^^^ That's my old Volvo 850 commuter car. I bought it with those rims on it with the intention of copping a set of the factory T5R wheels eventually. Those low profile tires blow easy as fuck with the combination of Phoenix heat and potholes in the road.

At some point while owing that car I blew every tire at least once, and the two front tires were blown twice each. I rode on the donut so much that it blew eventually.

 

[konceptjones]

When you got big ass rims (1999-2007) and good insurance (and some fly shit on)...

Changin a tire ain't a option...

But y'all black oily hand mechanic niggas can carry on

I had 20's on my Chevy low pros too I caught a flat the 1st time And had that scissor jack took me for ever to change it I scraped my knuckles and everything that next day I tossed that bitch I the garbage can and then bought my a hydraulic one where it take 3 pumps and it's in the air I love that thing

that knuckle-buster jack has it's uses tho and can come in handy in a real pinch. I had to change the fuel pump in our old 99 Caravan. The fuel pump on those vans is located on the top of the fuel tank and when mine went out I had about a quarter tank of gas in the tank. I had the back end of the van up on jack stands and used a combination of the floor jack and the bullshit jack under a piece of particle board to help raise and lower the fuel tank. I had to change the belt and the tensioner on my old '97 Grand Am GT and to do that job you need support the engine 'cause you have to unbolt it from the motor mounts on the passenger side plus it helps when you have to line everything back up to bolt it together. The floor jack wasn't the best thing for the job but the bullshit jack, again with particle board was perfect for the job.

Them things have use, I always keep 'em around.

 

[ineedpussy]

one night im with my friend and he on x and im speed balling (x and a bar) we smoking and drinking. we go to the club and the bouncer said i was to fucked up. so my friend was like he was gone go in holla at a couple of people and hell be right out. nigga it felt like hours so i called my cuz and said im coming out there to chill. somewhere during the drive ran over a curb bust my tire and it felt like hours for me to change it. put on the spare and get on the e way to get to my cuz's crib. get off the exit and driving down the wrong street(realized that shit about a year later) and it was a three way stop. one from my left and one from my right. i was suppose to turn left but i went straight. blew my spare. i was so fucked up i knew it was blown and said fuck it. called triple a they didnt come. passed out and woke up with the birds chirpin. get out like damn i hope my tire aint blew and show nuff it is. smmfh. dont do pills kids. it will fuck you up

 

[blakfyahking]

Was with my ex once when we got one. He tried to change it, was having technical difficulties and started mumbling shit to himself about not having the right equipment. I saw right through that shit. Nigga couldn't change a tire. We ended up calling triple A. Very quiet ride home cause he was embarrassed. I was embarrassed to be with him.

Maybe he ain't know what he was doing but if you/he had one of these tire jacks they are the absolute worse.

I can work with them but hate doing so because it takes forever.

As opposed to these which are great.

Sad tho. A lot of guys didn't have someone (dad, uncles) to teach them a lot of basic useful stuff.

nah bruh

the 1st jack is actually quicker to use for changing a tire if u know how to use it with two hands

the second on is too bulky............u might as well use a full size low profile jack instead of having to bend over to use that baby jack

of course a full size jack is too big to just be driving around with

Was with my ex once when we got one. He tried to change it, was having technical difficulties and started mumbling shit to himself about not having the right equipment. I saw right through that shit. Nigga couldn't change a tire. We ended up calling triple A. Very quiet ride home cause he was embarrassed. I was embarrassed to be with him.

Maybe he ain't know what he was doing but if you/he had one of these tire jacks they are the absolute worse.

I can work with them but hate doing so because it takes forever.

As opposed to these which are great.

Sad tho. A lot of guys didn't have someone (dad, uncles) to teach them a lot of basic useful stuff.

That ain't enough tho.

This is typical of what I keep in MY rides. This was the back of my commuter ride from back in 2013 ('94 Toyota Previa). That toolbox has enough shit in it that I can perform quite a few major repairs on the side of the road and I've kept it in my cars since 2000. I've changed brakes, power steering and water pumps, and motor mounts on the side of the road in the past.

that's way too much shit in the trunk tho........haha at needing to ride around with jack stands

if u repairing all that on the side of the road then u might not be doing proper regular maintenance...........no excuse to be doing brakes and changing motor mounts spontaneously on the side of the road

 

[TheGOAT]

Im almost 30 and never caught a flat

Wouldnt know what to do if i did

:#

 

[konceptjones]

Was with my ex once when we got one. He tried to change it, was having technical difficulties and started mumbling shit to himself about not having the right equipment. I saw right through that shit. Nigga couldn't change a tire. We ended up calling triple A. Very quiet ride home cause he was embarrassed. I was embarrassed to be with him.

Maybe he ain't know what he was doing but if you/he had one of these tire jacks they are the absolute worse.

I can work with them but hate doing so because it takes forever.

As opposed to these which are great.

Sad tho. A lot of guys didn't have someone (dad, uncles) to teach them a lot of basic useful stuff.

nah bruh

the 1st jack is actually quicker to use for changing a tire if u know how to use it with two hands

the second on is too bulky............u might as well use a full size low profile jack instead of having to bend over to use that baby jack

of course a full size jack is too big to just be driving around with

Was with my ex once when we got one. He tried to change it, was having technical difficulties and started mumbling shit to himself about not having the right equipment. I saw right through that shit. Nigga couldn't change a tire. We ended up calling triple A. Very quiet ride home cause he was embarrassed. I was embarrassed to be with him.

Maybe he ain't know what he was doing but if you/he had one of these tire jacks they are the absolute worse.

I can work with them but hate doing so because it takes forever.

As opposed to these which are great.

Sad tho. A lot of guys didn't have someone (dad, uncles) to teach them a lot of basic useful stuff.

That ain't enough tho.

This is typical of what I keep in MY rides. This was the back of my commuter ride from back in 2013 ('94 Toyota Previa). That toolbox has enough shit in it that I can perform quite a few major repairs on the side of the road and I've kept it in my cars since 2000. I've changed brakes, power steering and water pumps, and motor mounts on the side of the road in the past.

that's way too much shit in the trunk tho........haha at needing to ride around with jack stands

if u repairing all that on the side of the road then u might not be doing proper regular maintenance...........no excuse to be doing brakes and changing motor mounts spontaneously on the side of the road

When I was working outside the house my commutes would be something like 45-50 miles one-way. It makes no sense to buy a new car if I'm droppin 100 miles+ a day on the odometer so all of my "commuter cars" were older high miles cars. To give you an example, I had a '97 Grand Am GT with 170K on it, the Previa had 260K on it, my Volvo 850 had 145K on it, and my Windstar had 330K on it (it was a former cab). One of the few cars I drove that had fewer than 100K on it was my old 2002 Durango w/78K on it, and that's 'cause it was my wife's ride for 3 years until I bought her a Town and Country and just took it over.

Naturally, if there's a car with high miles like that shit can go wrong without warning. I had a water pump seize out of the blue, no seepage or anything. On my old Lumina I had two power steering pumps go south in the middle of turning a corner, just smoke everywhere and the shit dies and takes the serpentine belt with it. Had a 94 Sable for a brief moment and on the way home my rear driver side drum brake shoes basically disintegrated right after I left the parking lot. Thankfully there was an Autozone a block away from the office so I put the car back in my parking spot, walked to autozone, bought new shoes, and changed them bitches right there in the parking lot.

 

[blakfyahking]

Was with my ex once when we got one. He tried to change it, was having technical difficulties and started mumbling shit to himself about not having the right equipment. I saw right through that shit. Nigga couldn't change a tire. We ended up calling triple A. Very quiet ride home cause he was embarrassed. I was embarrassed to be with him.

Maybe he ain't know what he was doing but if you/he had one of these tire jacks they are the absolute worse.

I can work with them but hate doing so because it takes forever.

As opposed to these which are great.

Sad tho. A lot of guys didn't have someone (dad, uncles) to teach them a lot of basic useful stuff.

nah bruh

the 1st jack is actually quicker to use for changing a tire if u know how to use it with two hands

the second on is too bulky............u might as well use a full size low profile jack instead of having to bend over to use that baby jack

of course a full size jack is too big to just be driving around with

Was with my ex once when we got one. He tried to change it, was having technical difficulties and started mumbling shit to himself about not having the right equipment. I saw right through that shit. Nigga couldn't change a tire. We ended up calling triple A. Very quiet ride home cause he was embarrassed. I was embarrassed to be with him.

Maybe he ain't know what he was doing but if you/he had one of these tire jacks they are the absolute worse.

I can work with them but hate doing so because it takes forever.

As opposed to these which are great.

Sad tho. A lot of guys didn't have someone (dad, uncles) to teach them a lot of basic useful stuff.

That ain't enough tho.

This is typical of what I keep in MY rides. This was the back of my commuter ride from back in 2013 ('94 Toyota Previa). That toolbox has enough shit in it that I can perform quite a few major repairs on the side of the road and I've kept it in my cars since 2000. I've changed brakes, power steering and water pumps, and motor mounts on the side of the road in the past.

that's way too much shit in the trunk tho........haha at needing to ride around with jack stands

if u repairing all that on the side of the road then u might not be doing proper regular maintenance...........no excuse to be doing brakes and changing motor mounts spontaneously on the side of the road

When I was working outside the house my commutes would be something like 45-50 miles one-way. It makes no sense to buy a new car if I'm droppin 100 miles+ a day on the odometer so all of my "commuter cars" were older high miles cars. To give you an example, I had a '97 Grand Am GT with 170K on it, the Previa had 260K on it, my Volvo 850 had 145K on it, and my Windstar had 330K on it (it was a former cab). One of the few cars I drove that had fewer than 100K on it was my old 2002 Durango w/78K on it, and that's 'cause it was my wife's ride for 3 years until I bought her a Town and Country and just took it over.

Naturally, if there's a car with high miles like that shit can go wrong without warning. I had a water pump seize out of the blue, no seepage or anything. On my old Lumina I had two power steering pumps go south in the middle of turning a corner, just smoke everywhere and the shit dies and takes the serpentine belt with it. Had a 94 Sable for a brief moment and on the way home my rear driver side drum brake shoes basically disintegrated right after I left the parking lot. Thankfully there was an Autozone a block away from the office so I put the car back in my parking spot, walked to autozone, bought new shoes, and changed them bitches right there in the parking lot.

bruh I feel u cuz I maintain my own cars

and most of them are foreign imports where u can't just go pick up the parts at autozone around the corner

if u do regular maintenance like u are supposed to, u wouldn't find urself doing major repairs on the side of the road........otherwise it might just be better for peace of mind to buy something a little newer so that u aren't being nickeled and dimed all the time with unnecessary repairs.......the biggest unnecessary costs being ur valuable TIME wasted

shit like brakes and even motor mounts are a regular maintenance item........shit like water/oil/fuel/steering pumps and alternators and belts/hoses are items that pretty much have a wear limit

u know at a certain mileage them shits should be changed anyway, especially way before u think there is even a possibility they could fail

 

[blakfyahking]

my first car was a shit brown colored 87' Monte Carlo my aunt gave me that had like 68K on it

a nigga felt like a boss scooping chicks up instead of having to use Metro :joy:

but my ignition was jack up where the ACC and Pwr wires would randomly loosen and touch each other which would make my car randomly shut off while driving..........a nigga would be on a date with a young dimey chick sitting at a stoplight, and we having convo about how I'm gon take her to her house cuz her parents ain't home

I pull off and we cruise for a couple blocks..................next thing u know my car just shut completely off with no warning in the middle of DC traffic, I barely got brakes, steering, lights or anything and we almost run into the other side of traffic

shorty straight looked at me like WTF :# and got out my car immediately saying she was too scared to ride in a death machine........shorty left and took the metro bus home

wasn't the 1st time that car stopped like that on me when I was with a chick either

I learned all sorts or shit about maintenance on cars trying to fix it myself cuz I couldn't afford to take it to a mechanic

my car maintenance game is immaculate now from years of experiences of taking L's haha

 

[2stepz_ahead]

Im almost 30 and never caught a flat

Wouldnt know what to do if i did

:#

another girl

 

[banginscrew901]

Im almost 30 and never caught a flat

Wouldnt know what to do if i did

:#

Shit is easy as hell nothing to it.

 

[TheGOAT]

Im almost 30 and never caught a flat

Wouldnt know what to do if i did

:#

Shit is easy as hell nothing to it.

Yea im sure it is

If i caught a flat i would prolly just youtube it real quick.

The only thing im unsure of is where im sposed to place the jack

 

[yellowtapesport]

LOL @ youtubin' HOW TO CHANGE A TIRE