Was out for a drive enjoying the nice weather last night when all of a sudden I started hearing a loud clicking noise. Pulled over as soon as I could and found this in the left rear.........
I didn't see any air loss yet so I left the piece of metal in the tire and headed for home. Luckily I was only about 5 miles away. Stopped at a gas station on the way to check and see if it needed any air but the gauge showed no air loss. Jacked it up a ways at home and pulled the shrapnel and that's when I realized it was a utility knife blade. Amazing how it cut such a wide gash like that! If you look close you can see it even cut some of the cords in the tire.
Sucks being without the ZHP on this holiday weekend!
Now I have to decide what to do......the tires are Hankook V12s. The rears have less than 10,000 on them but the fronts have close to 30,000. Debating whether to just replace one or both rears or just doing all 4 even though they all have a good bit of thread left.
Then the next question is to go with a set of the newer Hankook V12 Evo2 or Michelin PSS. If I do end up changing all 4 I'll probably go with the PSS.
Barry