Road hazard

[elongest]

I was headed south for the winter on I- 95 with a fully packed truck (RAM) with a cap. I stopped to get fuel and noticed a cut on a rear tire. I went to a nearby Sam's Club but they did not have a tire to fit my truck. I dropped my full size spare with a steel rim and changed tires. I went to rehang the bad tire with an aluminum rim but the hole on the face of the rim was too small for the spare tire hanger to go through. I had to unpack/ rearrange must of the stuff from my truck bed to make room for the tire and wheel. I'm glad I did not have to this on the side of the road.
Eddie

[Mike Lewis]

Originally Posted by rmitch

Here is my "Road Hazard" this was in a clump of dirty snow. It put a hole in my transmission broke a motor mount and bent the driveshaft carrier bearing.

Yikes!

[h2owmn]

I was on the freeway when i saw to my left a tire/rim fall out of a truck bed and start rolling across the freeway. i didn't have much wiggle room but slowed enough that it rolled in front of me. relief. and then took a stray wobble, bounced, and hit the side of my car. i was relieved that i didn't run over it, and the resulting damage was slight. of course toyota told me that they'd need to repaint the whole right side of the car. no thanks. a local body shop pounded it out and repainted just one panel and it matched fine. i think i got off easy.

[Patandlinda]

Originally Posted by h2owmn

I was on the freeway when i saw to my left a tire/rim fall out of a truck bed and start rolling across the freeway. i didn't have much wiggle room but slowed enough that it rolled in front of me. relief. and then took a stray wobble, bounced, and hit the side of my car. i was relieved that i didn't run over it, and the resulting damage was slight. of course toyota told me that they'd need to repaint the whole right side of the car. no thanks. a local body shop pounded it out and repainted just one panel and it matched fine. i think i got off easy.

Glad it wasn’t anymore serious . Very scarey ! Pat

[Mike Lewis]

Several years ago when I still lived in Maryland, I was driving southbound on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway when I saw a bed liner come out of a pickup. The truck was a couple of hundred yards ahead of me, I guess. The bed liner sailed at least thirty feet into the air, then started to come down. It seemed to take forever to fall. Where is it going to land?, I wondered. The bed liner landed in the median. The truck never slowed down.

[cpaharley2008]

Used to drive the BW Pway a lot going between Baltimore/Washington witness interviews. Since it was a parkway, there were Park police who patrolled the area. It was touted "no trucks" and speed was normally 65-75 and bumper to bumper at those speeds. It was touted that if you ever ran out of gas just put it in neutral until you reached your exit......the traffic would push you there.

[rubicon327]

Nothing fell off yet but look at this dope I saw yesterday on 295 southbound near Bordentown NJ. Safe to say he has some really light steering, exceeded rear GAWR, exceeded rim and tire load capacity...and probably some other issues.

[cpaharley2008]

What was that, a rock or log in the truck bed?

[rubicon327]

Originally Posted by cpaharley2008

What was that, a rock or log in the truck bed?

I would call it a boulder.

[escape artist]

Originally Posted by rubicon327

I would call it a boulder.

Hi: rubicon327... Looks like all of Colorado to me!!! Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie

[gbaglo]

That's pretty much what my Datsun pickup looked like after a farmer dumped half a bucket of soaking wet, composted manure in the back, with me shouting STOP!!. I'd paid for a bucket but was glad to get shorted.
Drove the freeway at 50 mph for an hour, sitting on the edge of my seat the whole way.

[Iowa Dave]

Originally Posted by gbaglo

That's pretty much what my Datsun pickup looked like after a farmer dumped half a bucket of soaking wet, composted manure in the back, with me shouting STOP!!. I'd paid for a bucket but was glad to get shorted.
Drove the freeway at 50 mph for an hour, sitting on the edge of my seat the whole way.

That’s a manurey story. And terrible treatment for those venerable Datsun pickups. Glad you didn’t break down, might have been tough to get a mechanic to stand behind the repair.
Iowa Dave

[brightday]

Originally Posted by h2owmn

this is why i am a member of AAA with rv service added.

Thanks for the reminder to add it to my policy!

[brightday]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

That’s a manurey story. And terrible treatment for those venerable Datsun pickups. Glad you didn’t break down, might have been tough to get a mechanic to stand behind the repair.
Iowa Dave

[Mike Lewis]

Originally Posted by gbaglo

That's pretty much what my Datsun pickup looked like after a farmer dumped half a bucket of soaking wet, composted manure in the back, with me shouting STOP!!. I'd paid for a bucket but was glad to get shorted.
Drove the freeway at 50 mph for an hour, sitting on the edge of my seat the whole way.

Hope the load was covered.

[gbaglo]

Originally Posted by Mike Lewis

Hope the load was covered.

Of course

not.

[cpaharley2008]

The first time I picked up a load of mulch in my new B2000 truck I had my rear window open, big mistake as it sucked a bunch of mulch into the cab when I started driving. Glad it was not manure....

[escape artist]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

That’s a manurey story. And terrible treatment for those venerable Datsun pickups. Glad you didn’t break down, might have been tough to get a mechanic to stand behind the repair.
Iowa Dave

Hi: Iowa Dave... Reads like BS to me!!!
My road hazzard was the road itself... or lack of it. NFLD is full of "Potholes". While trying to avoid them I hit a washout at the pavements edge. The trailer slammed down so hard the battery box jumped up high enough to crack the original battery when it came down. The acid leaked out and mixed with the 10L. of spilled water on the dinette floor. What a mess!!! Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie

[moenkopi]

Originally Posted by Mike Lewis

I found it odd that the Tacoma has a full-sized spare, a normal tire in every way, but mounted on a rim marked "For Temporary Use Only". Usually these "temporary use" wheels are mated to smaller tires as well. The rim itself seems to be of simpler construction than the others, but it takes up the same volume in the spare tire storage area as a normal wheel and tire would. I see no reason why I couldn't replace this rim with a normal wheel and tire if I so desired.

I did. Found a used aluminum wheel online for under $100.

[santacruzer]

My flat tire story is a little different. Was on a muddy dirt road while hunting a couple of years ago, and got a flat on my 2009 Tacoma. First one I ever had on this truck. Labored a little getting the full size spare out from under, got the truck jacked up, and then found that the provided lug wrench (factory issued) was too small for the lug nuts. Fortunately, help was a radio call away, a friend had one of those four-way wrenches and I had the tire changed shortly after dark. Toyota dealer couldn't explain it, claimed they must have been "aftermarket" nuts on my wheels, but they were OEM. They even charged me to replace the lug nuts!!!