Road debris issues

CSCOBRA03

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Vegas is bad, a year ago I drove through there and some flat bed tow truck lost a side window on a car he had on back and took out my windshield. This winter as I was driving on I-15 though Vegas some truck hauling paper must have lost tens of thousands of large pieces of paper, he pulled over after driving for about 5 miles but the damage was done.
 

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Florida has a lot of tire debris. It irritates me when a trucker’s tire separates and they pull onto the shoulder just a few feet from it and won’t walk back and remove the tread from the road.


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took a trip from fort lauderdale to san diego (with many stops in between) and in my experience louisiana and arizona had the most road debris. every other car in louisiana had a cracked windshield! before embarking on my trip I had my windshield wrapped with some type of clear bra/ppg (not quite sure of the material used) and it has worked great. all sorts of debris have hit my windshield and so far no nicks or cracks. i did have one puncture in a small town in new mexico that was reminiscent of radiator springs, though. i highly recommend looking into the windshield wrap. only cost me $100.
 

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I watched a new F-150 run over a mattress on I-75, which promptly lodged under the truck and was ignited by the catalytic converters. He pulled into the center median before the flames started, but you would have thought the mattress was soaked in gasoline. Poor truck was fully engulfed in 3-4 minutes.
 

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I went through a construction zone in PA the other week in my black marauder where they have the cones so far over they force you to drive on the shoulder, which is full of whatever. Sure enough a car up in front of me launched a rock at the glass I just installed last year and put a nice chip in the middle of it.

This weekend I found the radiator split while it was parked for 2 weeks. Pretty sure I want to just part it out now...

Oh, and I have also seen a horse tethered by the bridle to something in the OPEN bed of a Ford pickup.

I would have called the cops on that one, we're not an Eastern European country that shouldn't be happening in the US lol.
 

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I went through a construction zone in PA the other week in my black marauder where they have the cones so far over they force you to drive on the shoulder, which is full of whatever. Sure enough a car up in front of me launched a rock at the glass I just installed last year and put a nice chip in the middle of it.

This weekend I found the radiator split while it was parked for 2 weeks. Pretty sure I want to just part it out now...



I would have called the cops on that one, we're not an Eastern European country that shouldn't be happening in the US lol.

I'm sure they got him at some point. From what I see in the news, it happens more then you would think.
 

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We have a lot of debris due to a new bridge being built over the ship channel, but the biggest problem is a business close to my town. They haul rock, sand, gravel, etc. The assholes are usually driving 80 m.p.h. in the left lane, slinging their crap everywhere. My last car's windshield looked terrible!
 

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Back in 2005 driving down Kellogg (US 54-400) in the center lane with traffic on both sides... I look ahead to see a smaller paint can tumbling end over end like a football hitting the ground after a punt. The paint can hit, and proceed to rip and dig a 3-4in hole/gash into the drivers side of the hood of my '04 lightning (near the part where the hood center rises) before shooting up and clearing the rest of the truck. Luckily it stayed closed... God I was pissed.
Then about a year later I got a 7.3 international glow plug through the inside sidewall on my drivers rear, on lunch hour. I was less than 50ft from a parking lot thankfully, as the tire had no air... Spent the hour in a parking lot in dress clothes, in the rain changing my tire. The glow plug was sticking out the side of the sidewall still...
Just this year I've had 5 tires on my Escape replaced so far, although 4 were to manufacturing issues keeping them from staying balanced. One was down due to a screw. I get my money's worth with discount tire's certificates...
 

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Back in 2005 driving down Kellogg (US 54-400) in the center lane with traffic on both sides... I look ahead to see a smaller paint can tumbling end over end like a football hitting the ground after a punt. The paint can hit, and proceed to rip and dig a 3-4in hole/gash into the drivers side of the hood of my '04 lightning (near the part where the hood center rises) before shooting up and clearing the rest of the truck. Luckily it stayed closed... God I was pissed.
Then about a year later I got a 7.3 international glow plug through the inside sidewall on my drivers rear, on lunch hour. I was less than 50ft from a parking lot thankfully, as the tire had no air... Spent the hour in a parking lot in dress clothes, in the rain changing my tire. The glow plug was sticking out the side of the sidewall still...
Just this year I've had 5 tires on my Escape replaced so far, although 4 were to manufacturing issues keeping them from staying balanced. One was down due to a screw. I get my money's worth with discount tire's certificates...

Good grief!!! 5 tires already this year? Amazing! Only 1 is from debris though.


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I drive 1k+ miles to Colorado as part of work (and to visit my sister). It's 500.4 miles from my driveway to hers.
If I hit any of the stores around Denver for work add another 250, and I get home with over 1000 to 1250+ miles.
Had new set of new coopers I bought in Jan that would not stay balanced. Passenger front always kept going out of whack.
Replaced every moving part in my front passenger wheel well, brakes, rotors cv axel, bearings, hub, tie rods, lca, ball joints, shocks stuts, hat, springs as moving the tires/wheels always got the front passenger to go out first... severe vibration never followed the tire, though they all would vibrate after a while.
Typically after getting ballanced before a trip they'd be ok till I went over 70. Just a few minutes or miles after hitting 80 or sometimes when I was lucky only after I slowed down and sped back up or just stopped (ie gas stop) they'd Vibrate violently over 70mph as soon as I got back up to speed.
I'd get them ballanced before leaving Wichita and the front passenger would be 2.5oz out by the time I stopped at castle rock. After 7 balances in 5 trips and actually 2 replaced tires as the one that got a screw was replaced with the wrong size tire, so they swapped the replacement with another in the correct size in Colorado when I stopped for another balance after a long 8hr drive. (Hour longer at just 70)
I've easily done <5k miles this year before April. Frustrated I worked out a deal with where I got them I paid the difference for the Michelins... 2 trips now... vibrations gone even passing at 85. Rides much smoother now too. No Lincoln, but it's not boxing my kidneys now.

Video was holding the wheel @80mph, still vibrating horribly just 250mi in on the coopers that were replaced.
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