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There is one more mechanism there - when the front tire rides over a nail it can can "make it stand" setting it in a position dangerous for a rear tire. That is
by _ds 4y ago
There is one more mechanism there - when the front tire rides over a nail it can can "make it stand" setting it in a position dangerous for a rear tire. That is a known issue and was brought to me by my father that was doing some work at nails factory. Their solution was to limit the maximum car speed to at most 20 km/h to give nails time to "lie down" before meeting the rear tire.
To make it more than anecdotal evidence one could try to reach statistics about nail punctured tires - if there will be much more rear punctured tires than the front ones, that would support the hypothesis.
Of course my father didn't listen and punctured his tire. The rear one.
- cpeterso 4y agoFront tires might also kick up the nails, "shooting" nails towards the rear tires.
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y agoNot at any sort of velocity needed to puncture them.
- bombcar 4y agoJust needs to get it in the right position so it can be forced into the ground (pushing into the tire).
- whizzter 4y ago+1 on these, distrubance on nails by front tires that makes them stand up and puncture rear ones feels quite plausible, but naturally we would want to see some statistics on rear tyre punctures by nails are more common. Luckily I happen to know some people who work with a large towing company with a fair bit of data, so I'll query if it's possible to do a quick query on that.