See What Got Into My Tire...

Sigh... What a bad start to the day. I was on the way to a seminar at JW Marriot and as I was passing by Sungei Besi Airport, I heard a 'pop' sound. I thought I had run over a tin can or plastic bag on the road. Few seconds later I started hearing a 'woong woong' sound. I knew something was wrong. So I pulled over and saw that I had a flat tire.

It's 8am in the morning and this is not exactly what I had in mind to start my day. Called a friend to help solve my problem. Of course that's the natural thing to do. Theoretically I know how to change a tire but I doubt I have the physical strength to really do it. I'd rather watch and supervise... Haha!!

Finally managed to get some help and off I headed to the seminar. But I had to start searching for a tire shop that is open on Sunday. I think life must be pretty good for tire shops coz there sure aren't many that are opened. Made some calls again and found some are opened in Cheras area.

So off I headed to Cheras and met up with my brother-in-law who brought me to his regular tire shop. They didn't have the Yokohama tire that I wanted so I had to settle for Silverstone again. Apparently Yokohama tires which fits my car have been out of stock since the beginning of this year.

As I was waiting for the tires to be changed, I was observing the repair guy removing whatever it was that's caused the puncture. And this is what they discovered!

It took the guy a good 5 minutes to get it out!

This isn't all that came out. It's stuck so they proceeded to remove the tire from the rim with that 'thing' still stuck.

It's 16cms long!

And this is the hole in the tire after that shaft was removed.