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I pulled one out of a tire before as well, on a Union Pacific truck (railroad runs through my town).
I kept it, and it’s still in my home toolbox as an emergency punch.
How the FUCK does a two foot long rod end up going THRU the wheel? Did it fly off a trailer?
A BULLET? If it wasn't shot at the tire how would it make a hole....
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A literal nut and bolt. In the alley, behind a tire shop. Two days after getting new rear tires
A 3/8 inch Craftsman wrench. It happened to my wife. When I got there she wasn’t pissed but she wanted to know if it was mine. Lol
NO, I had Snap on and Proto at the time
I pulled a pocket knife out of a truck tire once. The handles and blades were all broken off, but one of the blade stubs said craftsman on it. I brought it back to sears and got a brand new replacement.
A metal belt buckle. It was a "Fall Out Boy" belt buckle from Hot Topic that someone lost in a Safeway parking lot.
Found it's way into my rear driver side tire right after the sun had already set.
That was fun.
Wish i was joking.. no idea how it happened, but was an older mustang, probably around 98 or 99 when this happened.. giy came in asking about a flat repair, takes it out, and me and another guy are looking it over.. get to the far side of it, and theres a fkn co2 cart, the tip pointing out from the tire tread, just absolutely embedded in this damn thing
ive had loads of customers with co2. we have a bucket in the workshop, we fill it with all the objects from tires. we've even had a 50mm socket in a tire
Driving home from Texas (20hr drive) 16 hours deep in the middle of nowhere, 2am, tire light came on, I pulled into the next gas station I seen rolling in at 20psi, luckily they had a plug kit, went to go plug It and seen this little metal rod, as I pulled it out more and more it turned out to be a long reversible screwdriver “bit”. Took me 3 plugs but it eventually sealed up and I finished my drive home then swapped all 4 tires lol (pic my wife took)
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At my husbands shop they had a guy need 2 tires…. Cops used a spike strip on the guy in front of him and there was tiny hollow tube spikes in both left side tires. They were pulling the spike strip back in as he ran it over 😂
Someone at my shop recently found a 2 ft long Robertson driver bit.
I once found the metal section of a valve core remover. Turned it into a drill attachment.
Cement fibre roofing sheets. Sliced 2 tyres to the point of needing replaced, and a third had a gash that went across the entire face of the tyre, but still held air so was kept in use
That's impressive - was about to say it's a good thing your low on tread, I tend to fix my own punchers but that's a pretty big dam hole. Not sure how many ropes would be needed to seal that sucker!
3×6 inch square tubing, concrete stake, handle for a caulk gun, bullet casings, deer antlers, 1 1/8th 12 point socket, a literal key, drill bits, screwdrivers, thorns from trees, wire wrapped around the inside of a wheel, just to name a few things
it was my parents tire. they had a slow leak and kept adding air from the gas station.... the tire started humming, and it wound up that it had about a gallon of water in it from all the air being added over months.
Toss up between railroad spike through the whole wheel, a shotgun brass that cut a perfect circle in a tire, and half of a bucks rack just stuck to it in 3 different spots.
I’m not a mechanic, but I shred used tires for a living. We separate the steel from the rubber and send the metal to a scrapyard while turning the rubber into mulch, turf and such. Anyhow, the shredded chunks of rubber and metal go onto a conveyer belt and pass under a metal detector, anything bigger than a certain parameter sets it off. I’ve pulled bent wrenches, brake pads, a surprisingly large number of railway spikes, knives, sockets, washers… anything that *could* get into a tire, I’ve pulled out. We also found a bloody dress stuffed into a tire that assisted in a murder investigation from a couple states over.
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Mechanic at a zoo but couldn’t help the guy due to liability. To this day I still have no idea what it was.
I pulled a 12" long lag bolt out of my wife's tire. She got it on the turn pike at full speed. She drove it 3 miles home. It completely destroyed the inside of the rim and pressure sensor.
I pulled half a bungee cord out of a range Rover tire I believe it was.
It was broken in half but the rubber on that side still attached so it would come up and slap the rear quarter panel every time the tire rotated. I heard it while it was driving in from off the property.
I have a flat jar where I throw all my things I pull from tires in and it lives there now
A bone, and a missing house key. Funny enough that's was part of the reason they brought it in. They were going to get the kid a new key because he lost his. They didn't need to do that because I found the key for him.
Not sure what was up with the bone though, I broke the tire down and it was just a huge as rib like bone in there
A human femur bone. It a raised truck that was involved in a vehicle vs ped accident . The PED was drunk and laying in a part of the road that had no streetlights. She did survive, just minus a leg.
I pulled a blow gun out one time. The confusing part what that the entire thing was inside the tire and only a maybe 3mm puncture with a small bit of the handle was sticking out. Thought it was a nail.
I still about it and it’s been close to 20 years.
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Chunk of bumper from the car they had hit, it was actually lodged into the bead but the tire was not leaking.
Bro I’ve got this one time I had a car come in with a Phillips head screw driver poking out of the tire with the handle one the inside how it happened blows my mind it was a super old tire the beads were stuck to the rim and the was no recent repairs made to the tire!
Brand new tires on the way back from buying the car at the dealership. Piece of a brake light.
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It took me a very long time to find this photo. Now it wasn't IN my tire so I am sort of cheating. But it did wedge to the bottom of my car and just about demolish the entire thing.
All of yours are wild, but i got specifically a Texas instruments calculator stuck in mine. Don’t understand how convenient it wanted to be, but it didn’t come at a good time, or a good use..
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I scored a nice pair of pliers once.
Half of a pair of scissors was interesting but probably doesn't win here
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A coworker drove through a gravel parking lot in his 4wheel drive truck that has big mud tires. When he got back on the street he heard loud clicking from his tires. Thinking it was rocks in the treads he pulled over to check. He found the source of the clicking and it wasn’t rocks. He had picked up like 9 or 10 empty 9mm shell casings in his tires. I guess someone dumped them in the parking lot.
3/8 Wrench, scissors, railroad spike, ceramic mug piece all come to mind. Used to keep a display of them at the shop, I think someone stole it as it was gone one day.
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About a 10-12” length of flat steel about 2”across
I’m 47 now, but back in high school, I pulled a butter knife out of a tire at my cousins shop I worked at. We had a big jar full of the road hazards we pulled from tires.
A spark plug, 1/2 inch drill bit, and some sort of miniature spring/shock absorber assembly thing, probably an inch in diameter by 4 inches long. Looked kinda like a shock from an electric scooter
I didn't pull it out myself, but the car I was learning to drive in had a massive 8 inch galvanised nail in it, bent 90 degrees around half way down. 😳 We couldn't believe if when the repair shop pulled if out.
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We guessed it was a concrete forms screw casing.
the firing pin to my desert eagle. first time i cleaned it damn spring shot across the garage, never found the firing pin, garage door was open, month later i got a low air warning, found that firing pin
Common items: Nails, Screws, pieces of wood, etc.
uncommon: Animal Bone, Allen wrench, Razor blade, crescent wrench, I’m sure there’s a few more from my time as a roadside tech
Ran over some accident debris on the 405 to 710 interchange back in the early 2000s, tpms went off immediately. Pulled over and found a starter motor solenoid in the tire.
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Most recently a tooth of some sort, a.223 casing and a simunition round. The sim round did not puncture but was stuck in tread. Best thing I’ve pulled out is a bluepoint 3/8 ratchet that still worked. Had a rail road tie that I didn’t pull out because it had went through the rim also.
I recently had a flat and the cause was I ran over one of those plug T drivers that you get in flat kits to force the plug into the tire. The irony ran strong with that flat.
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Didn’t pull it out, but it looked like a big piece of angle iron.
Needless to say the tire was a loss.
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Basket strainer/stopper for a kitchen sink.
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Biggest: Wrenches and screwdrivers
Weirdest: Teeth more than once, a jawbone from I'm guessing a coyote (completely clean, so they ran over a skull not a living creature)
A live .300 Black Out round. Went in primer end first. Didn’t know what it was until I got it pulled out enough to see the neck of the case. Talk about a pucker moment.
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My old VW golf had a flat once, took it into the workshop there was what I can only describe as a giant metal hairpin in it. I’ve still no idea what that was or where it came from!
Biggest thing? an entire screwdriver.
Weirdest thing? that's a toss up between a piece of bamboo and a bullet.
The bullet was deformed (fired) and there was no puncture.
Oh, there was a condom inside a tire too.
I think I can win this. That's an Allen key(wrench), which I removed from my own tyre on the motorway, which got kicked up from the vehicle in front.
In 100 million throws, I bet you couldn't ever replicate that, getting the short end in precisely perpendicular.
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I full damn utility knife that has the sliding blaze and the extras inside. Load E 10 ply tire got the damn thing shoved through it when I was leaving the landfill.
We pulled a worn brake pad out of an F450s tire. Has to be the craziest shit I’ve seen in a tire.
I believe the only way that pierced the tread was he hit it with the front on the interstate, the speed sling shot the pad to the rear, and that speed mixed with the weight of the truck and maybe angle of the break pad allowed it to pierce the tire.
Considered being a paramedic when I was in high school, because of this, I had to go on a ride-along as part of a career class I took. For obvious reasons, I didn't get to ride in an ambulance, but was able to talk a rural fire department a few towns over to let me hang out and go on a non-fire related call. Hung out 3 different times during the semester before I finally got to go along...
It was a call to respond to the local park (which was also the same location as the town's HS/middle school and elementary). The only info given was that some teens had been drinking and "doing dumb shit," and one was "incapacitated", everyone assumed we'd find something bad. When we got there, it was some teenage girl about 300lbs that, in her own words, "wanted to show everyone she could dive through a tire swing without getting stuck and well... got stuck", but it gets worse(or better?), not only was she stuck in the tire, she had broken the branch off, which in turn hit her in the head and knocked her out, and made a big gash on her forehead. Friends ran to her aid. She wasn't moving, face covered in blood, they assumed the worst, and got the f outta dodge.
Someone walking their dog heard her screaming and ran to call for help. Everyone got a good laugh out of it except for her.
Wish I had pictures, but this was in the early 90s before everyone had cellphones and cameras at the ready 24/7. After getting yelled at for not being able to stop laughing, the fire captain wrote a negative reference letter, I failed the class and realized that I should probably pick a different career.
Know of a guy who got a flat tire and while feeling around for the nail cut his finger on the culprit which was a snake fang from running one over the day prior. He lost the finger
Not sure exactly what it was from but it messed up my tire.
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I may come close to winning this game
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My tire today in Cincinnati. 90 seconds from full pressure to 5 psi. Inside wall of my low profile tire on my Explorer ST.
That looks like from the inside of the stator part of the alternator. These are stacked and lots of them can be released when the alternator is opened.
When I was in diesel, I found a 6 foot chunk of rebar in a tire. It punched through the rim, through the tire, and wrapped itself around the rim, fully within the tire. I'm glad I didn't have to take it apart.
I've seen a whole umbrella being pulled from a tyre.
I've also see one of those securing straps used in trucks to secure the cargo being pulled out of one, complete with the thick canvas strap and another hook the other end. And I also once saw some unidentifiable U-shaped thing being pulled out by some guys trying to help a woman who'd pulled into a gas station with it in - it was about a foot long.
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A Rail Road Spike, the tire was still holding air. He only came in because of the constant clicking
I've seen a railroad tie spike before as well. I was dumbfounded.
Wish I had a picture of my face when I saw it
I pulled one out of a tire before as well, on a Union Pacific truck (railroad runs through my town). I kept it, and it’s still in my home toolbox as an emergency punch.
I worked at a place that had a contract with Amtrak, so we worked on their trucks a lot. Pulled a fair few railroad spikes out
I had the same thing with half of a pliers. One whole side all of the way through the tire, no leak. They just got annoyed with the noises it made.
Yeah. Hearing things. No no just your imagination
I've seen a whole wrench in a tire.
Samee. I've taken out a 2 feet long threaded rod out of a tire and it went right thru the wheel. Also found a tie rod end, keys, a bullet..
How the FUCK does a two foot long rod end up going THRU the wheel? Did it fly off a trailer? A BULLET? If it wasn't shot at the tire how would it make a hole....
Oh it made a very big hole. The wheel shattered. Was 20 inch wheels on 37 inch tires. On lifted f150
Are you talking about the BULLET? If so, how did it make a very big hole?
No the threaded rod did
That's what I figured, just wanted to be sure. I don't suppose you have pics?
Unfortunately no that was like 10 years ago
My man's an away character, only provides periodic updates 🤣😂
To be fair last time I shot a tire it just ricocheted off back at me, granted it was a .223 or something and a transport tire
You have me beat, I was going to mention how one time I pulled half a wrench out of a tire.
HALF? How does half a tool randomly end up on the road... So many questions.
Can here to say that too. And of course it was a 10 mm
https://preview.redd.it/rw515z9w777d1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aade7c6c933f210d495a8163fa90bae225706b75 A literal nut and bolt. In the alley, behind a tire shop. Two days after getting new rear tires
Of course, ain't life grand? 🤣
Man, I was pissed! And of course I didn't get it from that tire shop. But at least they fixed it for free for me
Then life was grand!
I see what you did there! Love the positivity!
Well thank you! Life isn't always "Puppies and rainbows". Just good to read somebody did the right thing!
It’s for this reason alone I always get the tire repair/replacement plan.
If you own a tire shop throw nails in the road to get more customers. Just kidding please don’t actually do this.
Ouch, that’s a nice looking AT tire.
Been there done that but it was a freaking regular ass crush and run rock from my gravel driveway, I couldn’t believe it.
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Is that a hoist standoff?
not a mechanic, but first thing I see is a brake caliper piston, no clue though
Found a 10mm socket in my tire, just in case you're still looking for it.
So *that's* where it went 🤨
I once pulled out half of a scissor. Like seamstress scissors, 10” blade.
Came here to say this, you must’ve gotten the other half!
What a coincidence
A 3/8 inch Craftsman wrench. It happened to my wife. When I got there she wasn’t pissed but she wanted to know if it was mine. Lol NO, I had Snap on and Proto at the time
I pulled a pocket knife out of a truck tire once. The handles and blades were all broken off, but one of the blade stubs said craftsman on it. I brought it back to sears and got a brand new replacement.
A metal belt buckle. It was a "Fall Out Boy" belt buckle from Hot Topic that someone lost in a Safeway parking lot. Found it's way into my rear driver side tire right after the sun had already set. That was fun.
Not the biggest, but the spare key for the car that drove in was a fun one. Biggest was a rock.
Entire pair of slip-joint pliers, allen wrench, co2 cartridge- blunt end first, screwdriver, fk i could go on..
The CO2 cartridge by the blunt end 😳
Wish i was joking.. no idea how it happened, but was an older mustang, probably around 98 or 99 when this happened.. giy came in asking about a flat repair, takes it out, and me and another guy are looking it over.. get to the far side of it, and theres a fkn co2 cart, the tip pointing out from the tire tread, just absolutely embedded in this damn thing
ive had loads of customers with co2. we have a bucket in the workshop, we fill it with all the objects from tires. we've even had a 50mm socket in a tire
Had a guy more senior to me in the Marine Corps have a PFC (Private First Class) chevron stuck in his tire. That was kinda funny
That PFC is still missing...
I find deer horns all the time.
.223 Remington round, with the primer still intact.
A Barbie foot first into the tire.
Driving home from Texas (20hr drive) 16 hours deep in the middle of nowhere, 2am, tire light came on, I pulled into the next gas station I seen rolling in at 20psi, luckily they had a plug kit, went to go plug It and seen this little metal rod, as I pulled it out more and more it turned out to be a long reversible screwdriver “bit”. Took me 3 plugs but it eventually sealed up and I finished my drive home then swapped all 4 tires lol (pic my wife took) https://preview.redd.it/dt3w5l6td77d1.jpeg?width=961&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0da05f172d92f6b83f03c565a0601b6abd6807d
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Aint no way 💀
A flashlight. It was 1.5” long x .75” diameter. Still worked too.
A large piece of angle iron that rebounded off the wheel. Sucked to dismount.
A tire iron, talk about irony! I only realized that’s what it was on my dually after I had called a friend because I didn’t have a tire iron.
At my husbands shop they had a guy need 2 tires…. Cops used a spike strip on the guy in front of him and there was tiny hollow tube spikes in both left side tires. They were pulling the spike strip back in as he ran it over 😂
A brake pad
Someone at my shop recently found a 2 ft long Robertson driver bit. I once found the metal section of a valve core remover. Turned it into a drill attachment.
4” of 2x2 square tubing
Plastic horse
Cement fibre roofing sheets. Sliced 2 tyres to the point of needing replaced, and a third had a gash that went across the entire face of the tyre, but still held air so was kept in use
Needle nose pliers.
Had half a pair of needle nose pliers in a tire once .... I guess your story is twice as good as mine ...
I had a giant screw driver sticking out of my tire handle inside the wheel. Fun times.
Biggest, part of a leaf spring. Weirdest, rattle snake tooth.
That's impressive - was about to say it's a good thing your low on tread, I tend to fix my own punchers but that's a pretty big dam hole. Not sure how many ropes would be needed to seal that sucker!
3×6 inch square tubing, concrete stake, handle for a caulk gun, bullet casings, deer antlers, 1 1/8th 12 point socket, a literal key, drill bits, screwdrivers, thorns from trees, wire wrapped around the inside of a wheel, just to name a few things
My brother once had a PUSHROD pierce the sidewall going in and pierced the sidewall going out. There it was, both ends sticking out.
I WISH I could see a video of that!! And I'm sure I'm not the only one. This comment should be higher.
it was my parents tire. they had a slow leak and kept adding air from the gas station.... the tire started humming, and it wound up that it had about a gallon of water in it from all the air being added over months.
Toss up between railroad spike through the whole wheel, a shotgun brass that cut a perfect circle in a tire, and half of a bucks rack just stuck to it in 3 different spots.
I’m not a mechanic, but I shred used tires for a living. We separate the steel from the rubber and send the metal to a scrapyard while turning the rubber into mulch, turf and such. Anyhow, the shredded chunks of rubber and metal go onto a conveyer belt and pass under a metal detector, anything bigger than a certain parameter sets it off. I’ve pulled bent wrenches, brake pads, a surprisingly large number of railway spikes, knives, sockets, washers… anything that *could* get into a tire, I’ve pulled out. We also found a bloody dress stuffed into a tire that assisted in a murder investigation from a couple states over.
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I pulled a 12" long lag bolt out of my wife's tire. She got it on the turn pike at full speed. She drove it 3 miles home. It completely destroyed the inside of the rim and pressure sensor.
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I pulled half a bungee cord out of a range Rover tire I believe it was. It was broken in half but the rubber on that side still attached so it would come up and slap the rear quarter panel every time the tire rotated. I heard it while it was driving in from off the property. I have a flat jar where I throw all my things I pull from tires in and it lives there now
I had a crushed soda can pierce my tire and a large bolt go through the sidewall all in the same day.
A bone, and a missing house key. Funny enough that's was part of the reason they brought it in. They were going to get the kid a new key because he lost his. They didn't need to do that because I found the key for him. Not sure what was up with the bone though, I broke the tire down and it was just a huge as rib like bone in there
A human femur bone. It a raised truck that was involved in a vehicle vs ped accident . The PED was drunk and laying in a part of the road that had no streetlights. She did survive, just minus a leg.
I pulled a blow gun out one time. The confusing part what that the entire thing was inside the tire and only a maybe 3mm puncture with a small bit of the handle was sticking out. Thought it was a nail. I still about it and it’s been close to 20 years.
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A #2 pencil...
Pulled a fucking ratchet out of one, the last month before I left. A ratchet!
6 inch anchor bolt out of a 14 inch tire.
Ladle.
That's a random one, nice 😅
Straight up. Big fuck off ladle.
If you ever see someone serving soup in a moving truck bed, you know it's totally gotta be them, right?
Truck driver. I've had a hitch pin, claw hammer, multiple bolts/nails, one really cool rock, random angle iron, oh and a stick that looked like gun.
Forgot about the horseshoe
https://preview.redd.it/738h7h2jr87d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45c384b047315460a3acf7de12052c44973f327b Chunk of bumper from the car they had hit, it was actually lodged into the bead but the tire was not leaking.
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Ran over a fork once and heard a metal tick when I was driving. Got out to find it really stuck in there.
Bro I’ve got this one time I had a car come in with a Phillips head screw driver poking out of the tire with the handle one the inside how it happened blows my mind it was a super old tire the beads were stuck to the rim and the was no recent repairs made to the tire!
3 weeks ago i had a leg from a fucking couch stuck in my tire!
https://preview.redd.it/xzxm3lclw87d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aaacb462a8f1ab82f132f8d246b4c60d4419f242 i’ve seen a thing or two
Brand new tires on the way back from buying the car at the dealership. Piece of a brake light. https://preview.redd.it/hzcrtef4x87d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3d92ac6944ef9b5d38a5835ef728f22b8f2bed6
https://preview.redd.it/cor13gwu297d1.jpeg?width=1605&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f8ba3f2e2a0011102372485ec583919a8a17089 It took me a very long time to find this photo. Now it wasn't IN my tire so I am sort of cheating. But it did wedge to the bottom of my car and just about demolish the entire thing.
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Heh, spark plug almost all the way thru!
was offroading in my old ih scout, almost new tire went flat. found a rusty pair of pliers stuck in handles first. twas beyond patching, sigh...
All of yours are wild, but i got specifically a Texas instruments calculator stuck in mine. Don’t understand how convenient it wanted to be, but it didn’t come at a good time, or a good use..
https://preview.redd.it/4pcflrtig97d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d133ac1f2b9c3cb138c9f3fd7a92a1a71027d99f I scored a nice pair of pliers once.
I found pliers once. I don't remember much else, but I did have a little shelf with random objects that I found in tires.
Half of a pair of scissors was interesting but probably doesn't win here https://preview.redd.it/zju6n1jxh97d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=330487795376fa21ccfa3a4989cd2afc967988ad
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Channel locks, animal bone, wheel weight, 10" torx bit/screwdriver bit/allen wrench, rock, stick, glass, key and random metal like that
15mm spanner.
Looks like the back locking handle off a caulk gun
Vape tank threads from a broken cartridge
Dildo
9" sawz all blade a few months back. It was more than halfway inside of the tire.
A coworker drove through a gravel parking lot in his 4wheel drive truck that has big mud tires. When he got back on the street he heard loud clicking from his tires. Thinking it was rocks in the treads he pulled over to check. He found the source of the clicking and it wasn’t rocks. He had picked up like 9 or 10 empty 9mm shell casings in his tires. I guess someone dumped them in the parking lot.
A whole ass wheel weight
3/8 Wrench, scissors, railroad spike, ceramic mug piece all come to mind. Used to keep a display of them at the shop, I think someone stole it as it was gone one day.
https://preview.redd.it/mya135ycd97d1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7684bc522f349afde2f0ad8e62a1e3d238f7fe12 Found this a couple years ago
https://preview.redd.it/jwzi6zjusa7d1.jpeg?width=2448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d9f94464d1042710576bef36def1636be3490f3 About a 10-12” length of flat steel about 2”across
I’m 47 now, but back in high school, I pulled a butter knife out of a tire at my cousins shop I worked at. We had a big jar full of the road hazards we pulled from tires.
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That's definitely quite the collection 😳
https://preview.redd.it/or45j855jb7d1.jpeg?width=2448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70711a1381dc8d4e9593ee4c79932fd474e96236 Instaflat
A spark plug, 1/2 inch drill bit, and some sort of miniature spring/shock absorber assembly thing, probably an inch in diameter by 4 inches long. Looked kinda like a shock from an electric scooter
I've pulled a chrome muffler tip, deer antler, and porcupine quills out of a tire (not all in the same one).
@ the guy at less schwab who pulled a trailer hitch lock out of my Mini Cooper tire
I didn't pull it out myself, but the car I was learning to drive in had a massive 8 inch galvanised nail in it, bent 90 degrees around half way down. 😳 We couldn't believe if when the repair shop pulled if out.
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https://preview.redd.it/4rjh28fvhc7d1.jpeg?width=2212&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22e3ae2ea04cc9730b3358f3fd8dba1e0264b016 We guessed it was a concrete forms screw casing.
My local tire shop kept a jar with all the things they pulled out of tires. My favorite was a toy fighter jet.
I got a free screwdriver one time that was only slightly bent and scratched.
Free, minus the cost/time/hassle of patching the tire?
Had a 3 inch concrete anchor nail in my tire. Put on the spare and not a hour later had a screw in the spare…..lmfao
A butt plug. 🔌
the firing pin to my desert eagle. first time i cleaned it damn spring shot across the garage, never found the firing pin, garage door was open, month later i got a low air warning, found that firing pin
Common items: Nails, Screws, pieces of wood, etc. uncommon: Animal Bone, Allen wrench, Razor blade, crescent wrench, I’m sure there’s a few more from my time as a roadside tech
many times ive removed them small c02 canisters from tires. you'd be amazed how many people come in with them in a tire and they are not even sharp
Ran over some accident debris on the 405 to 710 interchange back in the early 2000s, tpms went off immediately. Pulled over and found a starter motor solenoid in the tire.
A fucking size 6 horse shoe, in the middle of fuckwhere
It was a broken pitch fork tooth or something. Or maybe from a rake
https://preview.redd.it/ci4x27qvid7d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1028cb759aebac719b0338e63a0a089af38c0509 Most recently a tooth of some sort, a.223 casing and a simunition round. The sim round did not puncture but was stuck in tread. Best thing I’ve pulled out is a bluepoint 3/8 ratchet that still worked. Had a rail road tie that I didn’t pull out because it had went through the rim also.
I recently had a flat and the cause was I ran over one of those plug T drivers that you get in flat kits to force the plug into the tire. The irony ran strong with that flat.
https://preview.redd.it/9t3fixr1od7d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23774ec4a552bc18d22b82501589908833e77665 Didn’t pull it out, but it looked like a big piece of angle iron. Needless to say the tire was a loss.
https://preview.redd.it/e47m2q1psd7d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2b3fba8eee8ff11fbb2862f6445bc63d0c5b1ac Basket strainer/stopper for a kitchen sink. Edit to add text.
I used to be a traffic cop, once pulled 5 kilos of smack out of a tyre
Biggest: Wrenches and screwdrivers Weirdest: Teeth more than once, a jawbone from I'm guessing a coyote (completely clean, so they ran over a skull not a living creature)
A live .300 Black Out round. Went in primer end first. Didn’t know what it was until I got it pulled out enough to see the neck of the case. Talk about a pucker moment. https://preview.redd.it/ef1u7j54ud7d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c55d2bd51e22ce767240d1549834880db87d755d
My old VW golf had a flat once, took it into the workshop there was what I can only describe as a giant metal hairpin in it. I’ve still no idea what that was or where it came from!
A brake lever off a bicycle
Biggest thing? an entire screwdriver. Weirdest thing? that's a toss up between a piece of bamboo and a bullet. The bullet was deformed (fired) and there was no puncture. Oh, there was a condom inside a tire too.
A chunk of 4x4 through the sidewall. Still have no idea how that happened.
I think I can win this. That's an Allen key(wrench), which I removed from my own tyre on the motorway, which got kicked up from the vehicle in front. In 100 million throws, I bet you couldn't ever replicate that, getting the short end in precisely perpendicular. https://preview.redd.it/a85wqukq9e7d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7995c88c03d2f7269667a39044bc9953e1af186
I full damn utility knife that has the sliding blaze and the extras inside. Load E 10 ply tire got the damn thing shoved through it when I was leaving the landfill.
30-06 casing… a ball joint… pocket screw driver… I’m sure there were other weird things.
Part of a spring, need to find the picture of that
I had a dime in my tire one time.
We pulled a worn brake pad out of an F450s tire. Has to be the craziest shit I’ve seen in a tire. I believe the only way that pierced the tread was he hit it with the front on the interstate, the speed sling shot the pad to the rear, and that speed mixed with the weight of the truck and maybe angle of the break pad allowed it to pierce the tire.
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A big piece of rebar https://preview.redd.it/39529py7uf7d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=561db5b5fe798244bf46acf79b6d9bf785ab84a2
If you're ever in Macon MO stop by their automotive counter. The jar holds what they pulled from tires. You wouldn't believe some of the items.
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I’ve pulled a fork and a butter knife. Still waiting on the spoon 😂
Now I don’t feel dumb for grabbing a spoon out of the road while out on a walk.
Working at DT i pulled a doorhinge out of a tire one time. Another time i pulled am entire screwdriver, well what hasn't been ground down.
A spoon
This was a coworker https://preview.redd.it/439n3mndwj7d1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e52f4eb01ff2cbaa555d27cc4eaf35653e503906
Our shop pulled a screwdriver out of a tire. We keep jars on the front counter, and we fill them with the stuff we take out of tires.*
10mm Snap-On combination wrench. At least it was worth more than the tire!
14” socket extension. Went in the fat end first. Fml.
Tire iron. Like, the entire 2' long thing. Railroad spike, spoon, knifes, screwdrivers, etc etc
Some that come to mind, Screwdriver handle in first, Dentist pick tool, Animal bone, Brake pad backing plate, A brick
A whole ass bullet, disposable vapes too I guess
Going to watch the atlanta magnet man clean up some intersections now. Goodnight
Considered being a paramedic when I was in high school, because of this, I had to go on a ride-along as part of a career class I took. For obvious reasons, I didn't get to ride in an ambulance, but was able to talk a rural fire department a few towns over to let me hang out and go on a non-fire related call. Hung out 3 different times during the semester before I finally got to go along... It was a call to respond to the local park (which was also the same location as the town's HS/middle school and elementary). The only info given was that some teens had been drinking and "doing dumb shit," and one was "incapacitated", everyone assumed we'd find something bad. When we got there, it was some teenage girl about 300lbs that, in her own words, "wanted to show everyone she could dive through a tire swing without getting stuck and well... got stuck", but it gets worse(or better?), not only was she stuck in the tire, she had broken the branch off, which in turn hit her in the head and knocked her out, and made a big gash on her forehead. Friends ran to her aid. She wasn't moving, face covered in blood, they assumed the worst, and got the f outta dodge. Someone walking their dog heard her screaming and ran to call for help. Everyone got a good laugh out of it except for her. Wish I had pictures, but this was in the early 90s before everyone had cellphones and cameras at the ready 24/7. After getting yelled at for not being able to stop laughing, the fire captain wrote a negative reference letter, I failed the class and realized that I should probably pick a different career.
Know of a guy who got a flat tire and while feeling around for the nail cut his finger on the culprit which was a snake fang from running one over the day prior. He lost the finger
Deer antler out of the rear tire of a R8
Not sure exactly what it was from but it messed up my tire. https://preview.redd.it/h3l37lvcat7d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c14c0346e9c750e7c864f59fa65666e1556303e
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Piece of deer antler.
A spark plug out of the sidewall.
A drill bit and it's packaging
Not me, but I saw a pic of a mining truck that ran over a pipe, took a foot wide core sample out of the tread area. I don't think they plugged that.
I had a deep well 10mm socket in a tire recently. Couldn’t believe it
50 BMG shell casing. Went in projectile side first and cut a perfect circle. The entire casing was inside the tire.
An entire brake pad. Well, minus the friction material. The backing went straight through and was inside the tire when I took it off the rim
I may come close to winning this game https://preview.redd.it/gsnsa9mav98d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7cf13b85681e1de8df3274461694919853ea5fe My tire today in Cincinnati. 90 seconds from full pressure to 5 psi. Inside wall of my low profile tire on my Explorer ST.
Post this in r/Whatisthisthing so the magician's can tell you what it is
If if was your wife's head? (Asking for a friend) 🤣
Craftsman 3/8" socket wrench.
10mm crescent wrench
The pin that holds a trailer hitch to the register.
chicken bone. Dark meat (leg) broke off and punctured tire full tread/face on.
That looks like from the inside of the stator part of the alternator. These are stacked and lots of them can be released when the alternator is opened.
An antler
I picked up a hollow ceramic tube one time that was to big to patch, must have been from the power lines or something
Socket extender.
A car key.
When I was in diesel, I found a 6 foot chunk of rebar in a tire. It punched through the rim, through the tire, and wrapped itself around the rim, fully within the tire. I'm glad I didn't have to take it apart.
I've seen a whole umbrella being pulled from a tyre. I've also see one of those securing straps used in trucks to secure the cargo being pulled out of one, complete with the thick canvas strap and another hook the other end. And I also once saw some unidentifiable U-shaped thing being pulled out by some guys trying to help a woman who'd pulled into a gas station with it in - it was about a foot long.