Stranger Than Fiction: My New GTS Tire Was Impaled by This Thing
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Stranger Than Fiction: My New GTS Tire Was Impaled by This Thing
Hello Guys,
I was driving home on HWY 1 this last week and my TPMS warned me of a flat rear tire. So I pulled over and filled it with more air and limped home. Looked like a big fat roofing nail at the time.
Called Porsche Roadside Assistance, and Chaz Towing out of Watsonville showed up the next morning with a proper articulated flat bed, super pro as you can see from the picture. The driver was a car guy as well, and we had a few laughs on the way to Porsche of Fremont for a tire change.
As shown in the pictures below, you can see that the rear tire was impaled by an Autolite spark plug!
Happy ending: the guys at Porsche of Fremont, Gunter Feldmeier (service) and Scott Zencius (parts) were super responsive, and located a new Pirelli P-Zero in Los Angeles and had it sent overnight....and my tire and wheel insurance, Auto Knight, paid for the very expensive rear tire.......And, of course my car and I are OK as well.........thanks again to Porsche of Fremont !
I was driving home on HWY 1 this last week and my TPMS warned me of a flat rear tire. So I pulled over and filled it with more air and limped home. Looked like a big fat roofing nail at the time.
Called Porsche Roadside Assistance, and Chaz Towing out of Watsonville showed up the next morning with a proper articulated flat bed, super pro as you can see from the picture. The driver was a car guy as well, and we had a few laughs on the way to Porsche of Fremont for a tire change.
As shown in the pictures below, you can see that the rear tire was impaled by an Autolite spark plug!
Happy ending: the guys at Porsche of Fremont, Gunter Feldmeier (service) and Scott Zencius (parts) were super responsive, and located a new Pirelli P-Zero in Los Angeles and had it sent overnight....and my tire and wheel insurance, Auto Knight, paid for the very expensive rear tire.......And, of course my car and I are OK as well.........thanks again to Porsche of Fremont !
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Bob,
didnt u notice u car is runnin a little ruff
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Wow, I am glad that I got Autoknight when I picked up my car.
BTW, did you get any paperwork mailed to you from Autoknight after the sale?
BTW, did you get any paperwork mailed to you from Autoknight after the sale?
Hello Guys,
I was driving home on HWY 1 this last week and my TPMS warned me of a flat rear tire. So I pulled over and filled it with more air and limped home. Looked like a big fat roofing nail at the time.
Called Porsche Roadside Assistance, and Chaz Towing out of Watsonville showed up the next morning with a proper articulated flat bed, super pro as you can see from the picture. The driver was a car guy as well, and we had a few laughs on the way to Porsche of Fremont for a tire change.
As shown in the pictures below, you can see that the rear tire was impaled by an Autolite spark plug!
Happy ending: the guys at Porsche of Fremont, Gunter Feldmeier (service) and Scott Zencius (parts) were super responsive, and located a new Pirelli P-Zero in Los Angeles and had it sent overnight....and my tire and wheel insurance, Auto Knight, paid for the very expensive rear tire.......And, of course my car and I are OK as well.........thanks again to Porsche of Fremont !
I was driving home on HWY 1 this last week and my TPMS warned me of a flat rear tire. So I pulled over and filled it with more air and limped home. Looked like a big fat roofing nail at the time.
Called Porsche Roadside Assistance, and Chaz Towing out of Watsonville showed up the next morning with a proper articulated flat bed, super pro as you can see from the picture. The driver was a car guy as well, and we had a few laughs on the way to Porsche of Fremont for a tire change.
As shown in the pictures below, you can see that the rear tire was impaled by an Autolite spark plug!
Happy ending: the guys at Porsche of Fremont, Gunter Feldmeier (service) and Scott Zencius (parts) were super responsive, and located a new Pirelli P-Zero in Los Angeles and had it sent overnight....and my tire and wheel insurance, Auto Knight, paid for the very expensive rear tire.......And, of course my car and I are OK as well.........thanks again to Porsche of Fremont !
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Ive heard alot of stories before. But this is the first time I heard you have to take the tires off to change the spark plugs.
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I've seen some weird things, screwdriver, a kitchen paring knife, but the all time most bizarre was in Burkina Faso- a tooth. A human molar punctured the damn near bald rear tire on a Toyota Hi Luxe. It was Africa, so of course they just patched it and on our way we went.
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