I get out to assess the situation, clearly the tire is flat, but I was surprised to see the rim squashed in a couple places- yep this isn't going to be a quick fix. Look over and the TPMS is reading 0 PSI on the passenger rear, and all the ABS related idiot lights are lit up like a Christmas tree. Her voice is drowned out by a loud THUMP-THUMP-THUMP and chimes coming from the instrument panel. About a half hour east of Jamestown, NY (in the middle of nowhere, for those not familiar with I-86, a pretty desolate interstate) my wife wakes me up, and sort of calmly tells me that she hit something in the road. My wife and I take turns driving through the night, so one of us gets rest while the other drives. I-86 takes you 2/3 of the way through NY, then it's I-88 to Albany, then cross Vermont through state highways. Our route was I-71 from Louisville to Cleveland area, then on I-90 up through Erie, PA, then took I-86 east through upstate New York (the interstate that is south of I-90 I-90 is the toll road that costs a fortune and forces you to stop at pre-determined super expensive rest stops so I avoid it like the plague ). ![]() We were traveling to southern New Hampshire for a funeral from our home in northern Kentucky. ![]() Had the not-so pleasant experience of a tire blowout on our cross country road trip earlier in the week.
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