Never seen this stuck in a tire

Well this is a first for me, but I’m getting a new tire for free from the dealership. Took my truck in this morning for an oil change and when I left, the tire light came on. I didn’t think much of it, maybe a bad sensor. I got about two miles down the road, and felt it dragging, the entire tire flat and on the rim. I ended up changing it in the pouring rain.

went back to the dealership, and they pulled it around to look. What i originally thought was a tire weight you can see in the first picture turned out to be a dang wrench! It was their fault and replacing it no questions asked, but this was the first time I’ve seen this. I didn’t pull it all the way out yet.

 

So that’s where my 10mm went!

 

Front or rear? I would ask them to replace both front or both rear as they will wear unevenly

 

Rear driver side

 

Go buy a lottery ticket.

 

dealer use craftman tools, I will not go back there again.

 

Before I knew what was in there i was getting concerned....they took the truck back for the tire and i saw the hood up: come to find out, they were making sure no other tools had been left in there haha

 

That's pretty wild! Changing a tire in the rain does suck though.

 

Of course it's a 10mm. I have been looking all over for that.

 

I ran over a wrench with my Ranger one time too.damn craftsman if I remember correctly.ran over a short piece of 1/2 tubing one time also.went flat quick.

 

Strange this occurred at the dealership. My dad picked up a wrench in a tire on his F150 this week also.

 

Too bad it was a 10mm socket. Hope you got to keep the wrench.

 

Looks like the end busted off too. Take it to Sears and theyll replace it free, before they close.

 

Awwwww

 

Or submit it for a new State Farm commercial because "We've seen a thing or two" lol.

 

No worries, ace taking over craftsman tools...

 

In that first picture you have dry rot. It looks like it's time to replace all 4. Make them buy 1 and you get a 25% discount on new tires.

 

I’ve been watching the cracks on them and that’s actually one thing that has concerned me a little bit. I know the surface cracks on tires are pretty normal, which is what these are....but these tires are less than 2 years old and have about 23k miles on them. I didn’t expect these Nitto’s to do this nearly as fast as they have.

 

tread looks pretty worn out for 23K miles imo.

 

It had to be a 10mm

 

I just measured them and they are all 4 roughly 10-11/32. I feel like they have worn quicker than I expected, but they are all 4 even. I bought them expecting 40-50k, so we will see.

 

Wrench doesn’t surprise me. Ive seen half a set of scissors. A birds bone, wheel weights, a rail road tie, and quite a few have had rear drum pins in them.