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Or you could put a small stone in the valve stem cap and twist it on just enough to slowly leak.
Takes a bit longer but it’s going to hit a while from now, maybe while they’re driving.
Read that on the internet, did you?
I believe I am, for all intents and purposes, the actual originator of that trick (in terms of publishing it on the internet, anyway). You have no idea how much it warms the cockles of my twisted little black heart to see that someone else posted this before I was able to.
Does it actually work, or is it one of the hundreds of internet tricks that keep getting reposted because they sound like they would?
It does, if performed correctly. You can tell by giving the stem a listen. The escaping air will be quite audible.
So our independent lab testing on our own private vehicles in controlled conditions reports, anyway. My lawyers told me to add that last part.
Yeah except for all you’ll do is give them a blowout on the highway putting other innocent peoples lives at risk.
This is an absolutely retarded way to vandalize someone’s property.
It'll take a couple minutes for the tire to be completely flat. If they drive past that, they're not making it to the highway. If you're doing it on a car that'll drive away within minutes, there's likely an agent nearby and you've got bigger problems.
The air is like a flock of sheep - as soon as one finds a way out, they all immediately rush out too.
Even a tiny nick on the stem, the tyre would be flat before they've fastened their seatbelts.
That’s not how tires work at all mate….
I have the best results using BBs. Metal BBs, not airsoft pellets.
As a fellow internetor, I find this extremely hard to believe, but if it is accurate, hell yeah, keep fighting the fight
You keep using that word. You know which.
Stop.
Superglue the stone into the cap. That way it'll keep deflating the tire until the cap is replaced.
Buy a pack of valve caps. Super glue stones in them and carry them around. When you see ICE vehicles, replace their valve cap for yours. Repeat as necessary.
I bet if you bought real nice ones they’d let you do it.
You want the generic black ones that you can find anywhere. That way they can't trace the purchase down to you.
And remember to bleach your tracks. If they figure out what's going on, I guarantee they'll try everything from fingerprints to DNA on the caps, and even if the majority of the time the heat/vibration/dirt of the cap's environs is enough to remove your traces, you don't want to be on the long tail of that curve.
That's some big brain shit right there.
For the love of god don't do this, you might kill someone.
Them slowly getting a flat is not going to cause an accident. The low pressure warning is gonna come up well before anything dangerous actually happens
Probably still not going to cause an accident, but not all vehicles have low pressure warning systems. My car doesn't.
Most do, obviously excepting older vehicles. It's mandatory per Federal law in the US since the 2007 model year, and I believe the 2014 model year in the EU.
Still, in the nearly a century prior people managed to deal with unexpected flat tires and slow air leaks even without such electronic geegaws just fine.
My car is a 2005.
They all do. Maybe not an LED, but I promise you'll get a warning anyway as soon as you drive.
Apparently this is a 2007 thing, my car is a 2005. I promise you it doesn't.
Fair enough but still it’s not gonna be like a blowout
Eventually it might because we're human, cheap and, stupid.
Lol, it's a government vehicle. I'd be willing to bet that warning is on all the time. The sending units are integrated into the valvestem and cost a lot more than old school valvestems.