It has been rears, but it's easy to get to the rear of the car as it's parked up against a fence with cars close on either side. It was the front this time.
It's actually quite difficult to manually insert a screw into a tyre, you would need either a cordless drill with a screwdriver bit, or some sort of automatic screw gun like the auto feed type used for plasterboard screws.
I know this because years ago I cut up a section of a scrap tyre as an example to my driving school pupils to be able to demonstrate what a tyre looks like in section, the tread depth, and how it gets punctured with nails, screws and pop rivet shanks etc.
Not something I've experimented with (I suppose I could at tyre renewal time if I did it right next to the tyre fitters, being a weird foreigner and all).
BUT IF I wanted to get screws into a tyre I would wedge them in the V-wedge area formed next to the tyres contact patch, point up, head down, radially oriented, so that the weight of the vehicle forces them in when moving forward (or backward if reverse is the likely direction of first move).
IF this IS the MO, a pre-drive check should find them, both averting damage and providing paranoia-denial evidence, if there.
Mirror or a phone camera might avoid the need to lie down next to the wheels. Otherwise floor mats or something else to lie on.
Edited by edlithgow on 11/05/2022 at 05:54
|
