My wife and I work for a RV manufacturer. We pick up screws and bolts on a daily basis. The local tire place knows us by name as a matter of fact and often times doesn't charge us for small repairs. I feel your pain as I have two tires on my SUV right now. One had a 3" self tapping screw in it and the other had two of the same screws. It's good though that it didn't completely blow and make the car uncontrollable.
edraper
· 1 year ago
Thanks for your comment. Ah I guess it's a hazard of the job for you then! But yeah, I think that had the bolt not gone in completely straight, it could have shredded the tyre, and that certainly wouldn't have been nice to deal with. Fairly lucky really.
I've tried to find out today who is responsible for sweeping the local roads, to see how often they are swept (the road I picked the bolt up on is one of the main routes on the way to the local dump for a lot of the local area, so should be swept more regularly than most). I was told that no-one has a responsibility for sweeping the road itself, only the gutter/verge. I was also told that this is "where most of the stuff in the road ends up anyway" - except for the bolt that ended up in my tyre of course!
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I've tried to find out today who is responsible for sweeping the local roads, to see how often they are swept (the road I picked the bolt up on is one of the main routes on the way to the local dump for a lot of the local area, so should be swept more regularly than most). I was told that no-one has a responsibility for sweeping the road itself, only the gutter/verge. I was also told that this is "where most of the stuff in the road ends up anyway" - except for the bolt that ended up in my tyre of course!