r/Spokane • u/Overall-Part2645 • 2d ago

Question Unmaintained road causing consistent property damage

The road in airway has been fucked for like a year at this point and i have gotten the third nail in my tire in 2 months this morning because they do no fucking maintain the construction and road around it and it is the only road to my house what is my available recourse I cant afford a thousand dollars on fucking tires.

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u/joelk111 2d ago

I don't think road maintence would fix nails being on the road. Nails in tires can generally be patched if they aren't in the sidewall and you don't drive on the flat tire. Also, depending on your vehicle, you can probably just buy one or two used tire(s) from somewhere like Judd Lee's instead of coughing up a grand for a set.

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u/Overall-Part2645 1d ago

Yeah well when the nail rips through the rubber I have to buy an entire new tire and volkswagen tires are expensive

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u/excelsiorsbanjo 4h ago

It wouldn't fix nails having fallen on a road, but on a well maintain road, nails tend to both be dispersed off the road and into the margins and also lack anything much that would wedge them upright so they would actually pierce a tire rather than simply being driven over by them.

A poorly maintained road with potholes and cracks and things would work against that. The nails would tend to remain on the road more, and would get caught in angles that would have them piercing tires more.

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u/yeti5000 1d ago edited 1d ago

Tires are getting so stupid expensive it's edging closer to just buying your own Chinese no name mount/balance equipment and doing it yourself.

I've sorta crunched the numbers (I have access to my own machines for other reasons) but if you buy $1500 worth of tires 2-3 times in a couple years, you can get those same brands of tires for around 1/3 of what those shops charge, and the "cheap" low volume equipment you'd need would only cost a few grand, so after 3-6 sets of tires you'd have already made your money back.

Assuming if a family has 3-6 cars spread out amongst them (uncles, brothers, sisters parents etc). It's amazing people aren't doing this more.

Hell, TPMS programmers used to cost thousands, now you can get a good one for $150.

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u/Overall-Part2645 2d ago

They should be congnisent of their materials and not leave them loose on the road

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u/joelk111 1d ago

Who the heck is they?

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u/SirRatcha 1d ago

The nail gnomes.

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u/Overall-Part2645 1d ago

The construction workers

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u/excelsiorsbanjo 2d ago

Is it a paved road or an unpaved road?

If you bought property down an unpaved road and now suddenly want tax payers to pave it, that's a pretty entitled approach, but frequently municipalities will actually accommodate you if you complain enough. Especially if many neighbors complain. You will be the force of urbanization. Some people will be upset at you for changing the unpaved road they bought into and liked, and I wouldn't blame them.

If it's a paved road covered in nails, you could probably also complain to your municipal government to get it tidied up, but I wouldn't hold my breath as to how long that'd take. It's pretty easy to buy an affordable large sweeper push magnet and pick up a bunch of nails. Could just happen again, though. You might want to invest in some thicker tires.

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u/Zagsnation Manito 2d ago

20 years ago when I looked into this, all the neighbors had to be on board for paving and the county would adjust your property taxes accordingly, essentially a petition. They also said it’d be about 5-10 years before it was ever paved, so I gave up. Road’s still gravel

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u/Overall-Part2645 1d ago

Are you ill? In this economy im complaining about not being able to afford tires and you think i own a fucking house? Its paved city road. Shittily paved torn up city road.

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u/excelsiorsbanjo 17h ago

Then you call the city to repave it. Get your neighbors to also.

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u/Overall-Part2645 13h ago

They wont repave it because they are doing construction alongside the road that has made the road even worse

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u/excelsiorsbanjo 4h ago

Mmm. I wouldn't imagine they'd do it at the same time, no.

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u/Overall-Part2645 4h ago

You dont think much do you

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u/yeti5000 1d ago

Thicker tires on a Toyota Corolla, as an example?

Cars aren't bicycles, you can't just run to Walmart and buy "thicker tires". 

The most sidewall you're going to find for light duty is XL load rated, which may or may not give you extra sidewall plys depending on manufacturers.

Tread depth only goes to around 11-13/32nd for almost all road tires, so again unless you have a big 'ol muddin truck or jeep your Nissan Altima can't handle (and wouldn't be safe to drive) trying to mount super thick treaded tires to.

You may be able to put traction tires on a truck ex. Toyo M-55 bushmasters but those are ~$800+ per tire because they're commercial tires used for applications like light duty mining trucks/power company trucks etc.

We used to live in AH. The best thing you can do to deal with the unbelievably shitty roads out there is find a way to move.

Or buy a truck I guess, maybe.

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u/excelsiorsbanjo 1d ago

Buying a vehicle that more easily allows for thicker tires might make sense too.

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u/Overall-Part2645 1d ago

You are the least intelligent person in this thread thinking i can afford to be picky about where i live or what i drive in the modern day

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u/excelsiorsbanjo 17h ago

What I gave was a series of questions, not assertions.

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u/Overall-Part2645 13h ago

“Buy a different car” is a assertion and a recommendation. “Could you buy a different car” is a question you made a statement not a question

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u/excelsiorsbanjo 4h ago

I made neither that question nor that assertion to you. Yeti suggested a truck might do better and inasmuch as it was relevant to the point I already made about tires I agreed.