Quite possibly it did, anyway. I was driving home from school yesterday, the first really warm (hot, even) day of the year. I turned on the AC for the first time since we’ve had the car.
As I get on the highway, I start to hear an intermittent, high-pitched squealing kind of sound. To me, it sounded for all the world like the right front tire was rubbing on something. Every time it happened, it scared the hell out of me.
I finally get to where Bluesman is waiting for me to pick him up, and we inspect the tire. And it is in horrible shape. Tread about to come off, side wall almost worn through. None of the other tires, just this one. Bluesman took one look at it and announced that I was not going to drive on that, and went to get it replaced.
In his travels to aquire a new tire (not the easiest thing to do at 5:30 p.m.), the old one blows out. Luckily, it was on base, where the speed limits are ridiculously low, and the results were just a lot of inconvenience for Bluesman.
However. Had I not heard the sound, and inspected the tire, I never would have thought to look at it. I would have blithely driven off to school this morning, and the tire would almost certianly have gone somewhere on I-95, in heavy morning traffic. Very scary to think about.
The really freaky part? The sound I heard had nothing to do with the tire. As you may have guessed from the thead title (being the clever bunch you are), it was a belt in the AC system. With the sound coming from the vicinity of the only bad tire on the car. I’m kind of weirded out by the whole thing.
So, anyone else have their lives saved by inanimate objects lately?