What did you do to your Blackwing today?

[KatyTxCT5V]

Diagnosed the annoying “tick tick tick” noise coming from my tire the past few days

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That sucks! I had one and the same place on my C7 Z06 front tire at 300 miles and Michelin said ok to plug. I had it plugged and patched underneath, have just over 9k miles with no issue. I don’t track my car, but don’t really know for a fact if I did I would have an issue. I drive fast and hard, but on the street.

 

[bloominguez]

Diagnosed the annoying “tick tick tick” noise coming from my tire the past few days

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I would vote for pulling that, and then plugging the tire.

 

[PrimeTime]

This is a decent kit for a bail out on the road....now that my son used it first and solved the issue till it could be better repaired, I like it! IMHO.

 

[PrimeTime]

No tick tick....

 

[CaddyTrack]

Was clicking through stuff at a stoplight and thought this number was a fun coincidence:

 

[Throat Yogurt]

Hit a pothole last night resulting in sidewall damage. Had to use roadside assistance for the first time in as long as I can remember. It took 5-1/2 hours for the tow to arrive. It's ok though, I had a lovely gas station in Camden, NJ to wait at.

 

[FLYARMY]

Looks like a Phillips screwdriver will get that out !

 

[JTugwell]

Hit a pothole last night resulting in sidewall damage. Had to use roadside assistance for the first time in as long as I can remember. It took 5-1/2 hours for the tow to arrive. It's ok though, I had a lovely gas station in Camden, NJ to wait at.

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Are these tires fragile, or is this just the low profile tire life? The same thing just happened to me, but I’m coming from an F-150 so I have no frame of reference.

 

[Matt27]

Hit a pothole last night resulting in sidewall damage. Had to use roadside assistance for the first time in as long as I can remember. It took 5-1/2 hours for the tow to arrive. It's ok though, I had a lovely gas station in Camden, NJ to wait at.

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You're lucky you still have all four wheels after spending time in Camden.

 

[Throat Yogurt]

Are these tires fragile, or is this just the low profile tire life? The same thing just happened to me, but I’m coming from an F-150 so I have no frame of reference.

For the record, the tire I destroyed was a Conti DWS 06+ all season in stock size. And it was a severe pothole hit.

 

[Throat Yogurt]

You're lucky you still have all four wheels after spending time in Camden.

Another fun bonus to my adventure: the tow truck cab smelled like an asshole full of cigarettes, and the truck driver kept going back and forth between claiming the Jan 6 capitol rioters are being treated unfairly, and that the shifter in my car is the same one from a Saturn, made of plastic, and won't last past 15k miles so I should just sell my car now. Great experience at 2 AM.

 

[jonnywaffles11]

Hit a pothole last night resulting in sidewall damage. Had to use roadside assistance for the first time in as long as I can remember. It took 5-1/2 hours for the tow to arrive. It's ok though, I had a lovely gas station in Camden, NJ to wait at.

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$3.15?!?!!? shit I'll go to Camden for $3.15!! but damn that sucks dude, check w/ continental and their total assurance warranty assuming youre good on the mileage. they do prorate/replace tires with sidewall damage

 

[Throat Yogurt]

$3.15?!?!!? shit I'll go to Camden for $3.15!! but damn that sucks dude, check w/ continental and their total assurance warranty assuming youre good on the mileage. they do prorate/replace tires with sidewall damage

Stop lyin, no you won't!

Tire Rack's road hazard coverage (free) is paying the full cost of a new tire.

 

[Finally-a-V]

Unless things have changed for the better in the last 10-15 years, I wouldn't go to Camden for 29 cent gas, or anything else. I grew up not too far from Camden. It was a POS in the 80's, 90's and early 2000's. Back in the 80's/90's, broken down, you would have been lucky to get out with your life. The car would have been gone.

 

[CaddyTrack]

Drove the 5BW to CJD Dealer to look at 4xe for the wife to see if we liked it.
The entire time we were there (including a short test drive), there were 3 or more sales associates congregating by the BW, drooling, and discussing my car. They all waited for me to start it up. I was nice and gave them a rev on the way out of the lot.

 

[Seth]

Did a relatively quick interior detail, looking pretty good for 13,500 miles!

Learned a few things
- Did not realize the door panels had a specific place to put an umbrella (see pic)
- Discovered my dealership forgot to take that light blue protective plastic off the dead pedal, so I got to peel it off and discover a part of my car that was still "brand new"
- Realized the plastic pieces in the door handles, center console area, and phone charging area are super easy to remove and clean. As I realized this, my brain said "OH. DUH. That must be the whole point..."
- One of the pieces of rubber on my brake pedal has worn out significantly
- There is a small area on my driver's seat where the leather is flaking, not sure what to do about that

 

[Throat Yogurt]

Did a relatively quick interior detail, looking pretty good for 13,500 miles!

Learned a few things
- Did not realize the door panels had a specific place to put an umbrella (see pic)
- Discovered my dealership forgot to take that light blue protective plastic off the dead pedal, so I got to peel it off and discover a part of my car that was still "brand new"
- Realized the plastic pieces in the door handles, center console area, and phone charging area are super easy to remove and clean. As I realized this, my brain said "OH. DUH. That must be the whole point..."
- One of the pieces of rubber on my brake pedal has worn out significantly
- There is a small area on my driver's seat where the leather is flaking, not sure what to do about that

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Got a picture of the leather flaking?

 

[Seth]

Got a picture of the leather flaking?

It looks like something must have scratched/scuffed it , but I have no idea what it could have been

 

[Throat Yogurt]

It looks like something must have scratched/scuffed it , but I have no idea what it could have been

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That sucks! Maybe caused by a boot or shoe when getting in the car? Or the edge of a vacuum nozzle?
But it makes me feel better, because that definitely looks like something abraded it as opposed to the leather starting to flake apart on its own. I would think that wouldn't be too hard for an upholstery shop to fix.

 

[Seth]

That sucks! Maybe caused by a boot or shoe when getting in the car? Or the edge of a vacuum nozzle?

Or maybe even a wristwatch, in which case I blame @Tall Steve