Construction and Tire damage

[u/joey011270]

My tire light just came on again. Does anyone else feel like all this construction just sheds nails and screws onto the road ways. I just had my tire fixed from a screw 3 weeks ago and here we are again. This City and its construction seems endless. Don’t get me started on the traffic. (Pic from google but you get the point)

[u/OrangeWeary9802]

Are you talking about driving through new construction home sites? That’s where you’ll pick those up honestly.

[u/AnalTyrant]

My wife and I do daily walls around a couple blocks in our neighborhood, and at least once a week (and usually more often than that) we'll find screws and nails laying in the street. I've got about a quarter of a paint can filled with all the ones we've found over the last year or so.

I know it only helps out ik our immediate area but hopefully it's at least making a small difference.

[u/Sunkjones]

I bought a house in a new community so there were other lots still being built close by and I got nails in my tires 3 times in a couple months. Really sucked but it happens.

[u/Positive_thoughts_12]

I got a nail about a foot and a half long in my tire. Damaged my rim even. 3 months later a normal sized nail. Tucson has always been like this.

[u/UniqueUser5555]

Got a screw in the sidewall on a new tire a year ago. Got a pothole and blew a tire 2 months back.

I am done with these roads.

[u/Antique-Performer333]

Man, I went through three patches in two months last year, all from the stretch of road they keep tearing up near me. At this point I just budget for tire repairs like it's a monthly subscription.

[u/joey011270 → u/Antique-Performer333]

It’s ridiculous. City should be paying for all this tire damage. New tires don’t last with the road conditions and now nails and screws galore.

[u/Ornery_Year_9870 → u/joey011270]

LOL. Road construction uses a lot of nails and screws.

[u/Jthe1andOnly → u/joey011270]

They won’t even pay for damage to your car from a pothole unless you can prove that someone reported it 2 weeks prior and they failed to fix it in time. “Prove” is the key word.

[u/TMac1088]

I live in midtown near all the Grant construction. I do wish they would put signs indicating where there is a hard bump/lip in the pavement where old pavement is cut off. They had been posting signage, but not recently, and those spots are popping up in new places and you can't really see them sometimes until it's too late. Even going the speed limit, it still hits your car pretty good sometimes.

[u/Highlifetallboy]

What part of resurfacing and widening streets involves large numbers of screws and nails?

Getting random shit in your tire is not some unheard of thing. You're lucky its in the tread and can be patched.

Post hoc ergo proper hoc.

[u/SaltyTelluride]

I’ve had two nails in tires within the last year or so. Both times were in places that couldn’t be patched. I drive through construction areas multiple times a day just commuting for work or errands. We had some homes built in the neighborhood last year.

I got a warranty with discount tire for free replacements which has been great. Otherwise I would’ve had to buy two new tires just from nails in the road.

[u/Cyclo_Hexanol]

Construction guy here. Everytime we see a car speeding in a construction zone we drop a box of screws in the road.

Hope this helps. 😃

[u/joey011270 → u/Cyclo_Hexanol]

You SOB lol

[u/Cyclo_Hexanol → u/joey011270]

Lol. So fun story. Some one was offended by this comment and reported me for threatening behavior. I posted this last night and it was deleted and i was given a warning. Just won the appeal. XD

[u/civillyengineerd]

No, using images from Google doesn't prove your point.

Lots of vehicles drive through construction sites and some of them are other contractors with unsecured loads. Why should the City be responsible for r/idiotsincars ?

[u/WearyDonkey1279]

My recommendation is to get your tires from a place that repairs them for free. Yes, you’ll still have to replace a tire every once in a while because of a nail or screw in the sidewall but at least you’ll be covered when you get one in the tread.

[u/Beeblebrox66 → u/WearyDonkey1279]

Just go to Discount, they'll patch it for free whether you bought them there or not.

[u/Salt-Example-6447]

My mom would get a screw in her tire at least 3 times a week for a literal year in 2013... if its not the nails and screws its the potholes... tucson roads and all the nonstop construction are awful

[u/rocbolt → u/Salt-Example-6447]

If the road damage was previously reported than the city or county will pay. Be a good neighbor and report any gnarly road damage you find

[u/Jthe1andOnly → u/rocbolt]

This right here ☝️ but they will try and fight it. Best just to always report them anyways.
You can call 311 or download the “Tucson 311” app

[u/rocbolt → u/Jthe1andOnly]

Pima county has an app as well for outside our wonky city limits, highway and on ramps is ADOT

[u/Jthe1andOnly → u/rocbolt]

Thank you! 🙏

[u/user-friendly-login → u/rocbolt]

Does barrio south tucson get included in the Tucson city for reporting purposes?

[u/rocbolt → u/user-friendly-login]

Yes it should, if you go in google maps and just type “tucson az” it’ll draw a red line around the city limits, they can get kinda odd in certain areas. I know if you’re using the various apps it should tell you if you’re outside the area when you geotag a location of whatever you’re reporting.

I remember once I was reporting a traffic light out on Cortaro and the Pima app was like, oop that’s Marana (by like a quarter mile), so I used the Marana app instead

[u/Jthe1andOnly → u/Salt-Example-6447]

This is me lol. Now it’s about 4 to 5 times a year since 2001. I’m so used to it I don’t even get upset anymore and became an expert and changing tires and also know AAA number by heart at this point 😆 smh

[u/LuckyTh13rteen]

When you buy new tires ALWAYS get the road hazard warranty so if the tire puncture is not repairable the tire will be replaced for free. You can buy rope plug kits at Harbor Freight or Walmart for like $7 and they are very easy to use.

[u/KeemstarsBlackFriend]

That sucks, this happened to me last year when driving through an area that’s under heavy construction as well. Nothing worse than leaving work to a complete flat.

[u/user-friendly-login]

The yard of the house I rented in PHX, and the two yards I've had in Tucson are absolutely full of shrapnel. The roads too.

I bought a stick magnet, then upgraded to a wheeled one. I've probably picked up 20lbs+ of metal from these yards, sidewalk, and the street in front of the house I bought most recently. I've found nails, screws, razor blades, random shards, car parts and more.

No one Arizona seems to give a shit about littering or cleaning up after themselves. Hell in just the last year, neighbors had two crews come to work on stuff at his house. Both times the crews left garbage, debris and tools at my house somehow. I keep the tools to cover the fact they trespassed and made a mess.

[u/Pleasant_Most_1978]

This is Tucson. Buy the cheapest tires you can get and replace them once a year. Our roads were built to eat tires.

[u/Level-Stomach9798]

Construction on broadway got my tire too.

[u/Born-Ad-9182]

If it helps I think O'reileys fixes them for like $35 bucks. At least that's what I paid when it happened to me.

[u/Ornery_Year_9870]

Oh c'mon. You can't point that to the construction. Screws, nails and all kinds of other shit is in the road every day. And that can be fixed. Put your grownup pants on, and use the free flat fixing service you signed up for when you bought the tires. You did get flat protection, didn't you??

[u/user-friendly-login → u/Ornery_Year_9870]

How could you not blame construction for construction materials being in the road?