Need advice on puncture

Vaughanabe13

AFAIK the tires on this 2009 Z34 have never been replaced and I've got about 11K miles now. The tread is pretty worn and I just got the tire maintenance alert a couple weeks ago. Last week I was driving out of the work parking lot and when I got up to about 20 MPH I heard a loud banging/pulsing sound coming from the rear. Got out and found it was a big piece of wire that was sticking out of my right rear tire and when I drove fast enough the centrifugal force was making the end of the wire hit inside the wheel well. It must have happened in my work parking lot near the shipping dock.

I was able to clip the wire at the base with some pliers and drive home. It was risky but I didn't live too far and I was watching for any TPMS alerts. The tire didn't lose any pressure and when I got home I couldn't find the stub of the wire, so it must have gotten pressed into the tire.

The puncture was pretty much right in the middle of the tread. At this point should I just go ahead and replace the tire? Replace all tires at once? I guess I'm not sure what the average mileage is for these Bridgestone potenzas. I have the 09 Touring Sport.

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2009 Nissan 370Z Touring, w/sport, 6MT, chicane yellow/black.

TreeSemdyZee

Get it patched. I had something similar happen within a few months of buying my car. Actually, it happened twice on the same tire. I went to TiresPlus and they did, what they called, a "Permanent" patch. I never had any problem with the patches.

Rockcrawler

plug it and watch for alerts, do it all the time. If you track or run over 100 in twisties often I would just replace, but for a dd?

That said, there's plenty of people who percieve a risk with that stance. Tire stores refer to those guys as "Good customers"

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2009 silver sport, 6MT touring and nav, 8700 miles when I got it, "almost" a daily driver now... bone stock aside from tint and Gemini CBE, PC'd Rays black stardust and running 275/295 DWS rubber