Look at the odometer in our truck. 300,000 km!!! Clint noticed. Cool. Sorry so blurry; hard to snap a photo in a moving truck while getting in front of driver. LOL OMG, compare the 2 pictures below. Our boat trailer tire did that - not as bad as top pic but worse than bottom pic!! We were half way between Princeton and Keremeos. Minimal cell reception. Argh. We heard a bit of a screeling sound then thwap-thwap-thwap... . We knew what it was immediately and just groaned. The tires were old and we knew they were due, but had just tried to make them last one final summer. Nope nope nope. Argh. We pulled over and I noticed that the fender had actually been ripped right off by the shredding tire. Clint saw the fender back a hundred yards on the highway. So back he ran to get it off the road before someone ran it over and had an accident. Then we commenced phoning tire shops in Keremeos for a fix. No one did on-the-road fixes, so we called Princeton Kal Tire. They came out and had a nasty time getting the wheel off. Broke a lug nut and also dented the wheel. Darn. Anyhow, did finally get the tire changed -- tire $88 ... call-out $100 and $100 an hour. What an expensive mistake on our part. But it could have been so very much worse if we had caused an accident ... or been in one ourselves. We are grateful. Still had to get boat and trailer to Skaha Lake to take Glen and family boating.
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