I'd take a good hard look at that wheel.

 

I intend to even if I have to pop it off by hand. Meant to add the first flat was my primary rim. Which is the one that has been on since the thing was built I am guessing. The second FLAT was my spare tire and rim. The third my primary again.

 

also I have been running it on some rough roads could it be a busted belt that keeps busting thru

 

Here is what I would do.

1.) Take the tire off your car, fill it up, and get some soapy water with a sponge. Wipe the soapy water around the tire where you can hear the air leaking out. You'll see the water start to bubble up. Then you can at least find your hole.
2.) If it is near the rim, it possibly could be a bad bead. Take it back to the shop and have them take it off and re-install it.

Hope that helps.

 

It does and I will. I know the first time on this tire it was in the middle on the top. My cusion found the leak and could plug it alittle with his finger.

 

I have had the same issue with my stock Wrangler tires. I've gone just over 30,000 miles. Have maybe been on gravel roads 20 times in that period. Out of those 20 times, I've had 3 flats. They all happened exactly how you describe them. No nail, it has to be a rock that punches through the tire. It's pretty sad that you get those crap tires with the most popular outdoor vehicle on the market. I'm about to buy different tires because it's a scary feeling when you've already changed out one tire and know you have 9 more miles to go on the gravel road and if another blows... You're ****ed!

 

There is a lot of stuff that can stick your tire but not be retained. Rocks such as crushed limestone with sharp pointy edges, siding debris with nails through wood in the gravel, etc. The UMW jacks are said to always be thrown off the tire after doing their damage. (For the young here, during the mine workers strike about 40 years ago, the union made caltrops out of two nails welded together and bent such that trucks would run over them and the tires would go flat. Not just military weapons against horses, Caltrops are a highly effective way of vandalizing trails and roads. Used by farmers against off roaders, etc.)

Personally, Im honored to see the police setting up speed traps to stop speeding cars and trucks.

Any way they land, they are set to flatten a tire. Then, supposedly, they are thrown free to harm again. Handfuls of these were thrown on the roads that the scab truckers used to haul coal out of the mines.

 

Wow! I never knew that! This was a forest road in South Arkansas. We were a mile or so from our trailhead and it's a pretty heavily traveled road for a forest road. But I've had them done on our local county road gravel the other two times. I think I'm about to upgrade the tread size and get some MT or good AT's.

 

Great idea there. Let's destroy the tires of a police car so that our tax money can pay to replace them. That's genius!

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Great idea there. Let's destroy the tires of a police car so that our tax money can pay to replace them.

What..? :dunno:

 

What..? :dunno:

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I wouldn't know why you would say "let's." I certainly could not care what you might want or not want to do. Just that I don't like it when a little hick village sets up a speed trap on a major expressway just to raise money. And, since I am always speeding, I think I will get my welder out tonight and make some caltrops.

Maybe my sarcasm was lost in translation. Here's what I meant:

Criminal mischief to public property is a BAD thing. Placing "caltrops" on the roadway in order to intentionally cause damage to the tires of police cars, all because you like to exceed the posted speed limit through a known "speed trap" is not a wise plan.

I'm sure you already know this and won't actually "spike" any cars, but stranger things have happened.

Now that my point is made, I'm finished hijacking the OP's thread.

 

My girlfriend has a 2002 Jeep Cherokee she's had four flats on the passenger rear in a matter of three months out of nowhere the tire just keeps going flat these were old tires and brand-new tires on two different rims we cannot figure this out.