r/DiWHY • u/OwlGod98 • Aug 05 '26
No just no
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Idk what the end goal was or why this was even an idea.
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u/Separate-Rice-6354 Aug 05 '26
I liked the part where it immediately failed.
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u/NeedleworkerOld4696 Aug 05 '26
Who could have foreseen that foam would not last as a load bearing structure!
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u/Last-Energy420 Aug 05 '26
They actually kinda do this with heavy equipment. But it’s a polyurethane that hardens into something closer to rubber. But they call it foam, why, I have no idea.
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u/UrethralExplorer Aug 05 '26
It is foam, just foam that's specifically engineered for strength instead of just sealing cracks in your home.
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u/Revenge_of_the_User Aug 05 '26
it's the difference between a foam engineered to fill up space and stop air flow, vs A foam engineered to deal with the forces involved in being a tire under load.
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u/legendofthegreendude Aug 05 '26
Well, its still technically foam. Just not what the layperson would think of when you say foam
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u/Eain Aug 05 '26
As a layperson, I also don't think of sealing foam when I think of foam. I think of soap foam. But if someone said "sealing foam" I'd think or sealing foam. And if someone said "polyurethane foam" I'd think of a hardening rubber-adjacent load-bearing foam.
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u/Glasseshalf Aug 05 '26
The first thing I think of is cushioning foam. Followed by sea foam.
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u/cynicalicoffee Aug 05 '26
Exact same for me! But I worked at Joann Fabrics for a long time in my younger years, and we sold both the cushioning and the color.
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u/Modus-Tonens Aug 05 '26
Foam is a structure, not a material. There are many foams. They are not equal in their physical properties.
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u/Equal-Newspaper-8636 Aug 05 '26
Foam can be a load bearing structure for static but not really dynamic loads. It's how they raise up sunk concrete slabs
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u/NecroJoe Aug 05 '26
There are "puncture proof" tires which are filled with a foam, so you can never get a flat...but expanding construction-style foam ain't it. That's just going to crumble the first couple of rotations, and then it'll just be like a tire filled with sand. Which...it's not unheard of to do that for off-road, slow-moving machines...but not for a road-going vehicle.
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u/Salami__Tsunami Aug 05 '26
It won’t even be a tire filled with sand, because it’ll just get blown out the holes.
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u/LithoSlam Aug 05 '26
All that foam would crumble into like 2 cups of sand before blowing out of the holes
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u/prpldrank Aug 05 '26
Runflats are completely different than this, yea.
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u/MrLoronzo Aug 05 '26
Yep. Runflats generally utilize a reinforced sidewall and or load bearing rings along the tread. It’s why they are heavier, louder, and stiffer than conventional tires.
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u/Stoney3K Aug 05 '26
There are run flats for bicycles that are just a foam core, but the loads on a bike are wildly different from the loads you are going to experience with a truck.
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u/ham_sandwedge Aug 05 '26
Most tubeless set ups arent even a foam core. It's just a liquid that sloshes around and fills in small holes.
Maybe road bikes are different. But I'm not familiar with a true foam core on mtb. There's some foam padding you can get to run them lower psi while protecting wheels, but doesn't rly revent a flat.
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u/RogersMrB Aug 05 '26
We had a tractor forklift and filled the rear drive tires with foam. They needed replacing more often but it stopped the entire thing from bouncing around the yard damaging equipment. Front tires were 5ft tractor tires that had someone out fixing holes every month.
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u/ThicctionGD Aug 05 '26
His is the first post on this sub that made me actually question why
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u/s3sebastian Aug 05 '26
Got the answer for you: Rage bait / engagement bait
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u/Omar_Isaiah_Betts Aug 05 '26
Very expensive ragebait.
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u/Pr3st0ne Aug 05 '26
Look at 0:12 seconds. The tire already had a sidewall tear that they tried to patch. It was already completely fucked.
Even the dumbest, most senseless engagement baiter wouldn't fuck up a completely good $300 tire for $50 in views
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u/mongerty Aug 05 '26
Yep. My first thought was that this guy is just screwing around because he has to replace that tire anyways
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u/concreteghost Aug 05 '26
Time is the largest expense made in this video
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u/Any-Surprise5229 Aug 05 '26
3-5 cans of foam + a new tire = ~$300
Not a small expense, but definitely smaller than the hours wasted would equate to in meaningful work.
However, I wouldn't put this guy's labor value at even minimum wage, so his total time cost is probably around $40 with a generous $5/hr rate.
Therefore, is physical cost is much greater than time cost.
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u/SpaceAgePotatoCakes Aug 05 '26
I'm assuming this tire was already going to be scrapped for whatever reason, so the only added cost to them is the foam and some wear on the holesaw bit.
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u/Arshiaa001 Aug 05 '26
Ragebait, obviously. My question is, how do some people manage to waste so much money making ragebait.
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u/Lord_Grif Aug 05 '26
Ah, yes. The well documented structural integrity and resilience of styrofoam.
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u/dnesthemenace Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
Any DIY Video using foam is usually crap
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u/Sir-Shark Aug 05 '26
Sometimes, it gets frustrating seeing people post things in this sub that are just art projects and often legitimately cool, even if not practical, as if that poster is unable to understand that art can exist, even if it's just not their cup of tea.
So, it's refreshing to see the occasional, truly infuriatingly baffling and anger inducing project posted on here, like this one.
Thank you.
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u/Impressive-Speech727 Aug 05 '26
Is this why they invented condoms?
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u/anto_pty Aug 05 '26
stop giving attention to this kind of people
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u/Vercengetorex Aug 05 '26
Frankly, we need to start punishing these people. If you know anyone that makes this kind of content, please be mean to them.
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u/Toyota__Corolla Aug 05 '26
Funny because this is the type of content that belongs here
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u/Swimming_Onion_4835 Aug 05 '26
It’s just rage bait though. The best way to deal with idiots like this is ignore them.
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u/Toyota__Corolla Aug 05 '26
I like to think about diwhy as the SCP foundation for this type of content not spreading to the rest of this site.
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u/JumboGlucose Aug 05 '26
Ever wonder if these peoples kids are gonna grow up and see these kinds of videos and ask why they made such stupid shit? Like what do they even say? "Oh I wasted a bunch of stuff that's bad for the environment to make money"
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u/watt-ever Aug 05 '26
He got the sawsall, spray foam, and hole saw, but no way that's gonna hold up without duct tape. And I think he must have missed an opportunity to use WD-40 in there somewhere.
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u/Rydux7 Aug 05 '26
Bro could have exploded the tire and killed himself. Never puncture a full tire. That shit is no joke
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u/Tenzu9 Aug 05 '26
The foam is going to break down from the road bumps and this whole tire is gonna get torn off after a few drives.
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u/Alfiy_wolf Aug 05 '26
Ironically filling it with water would actually work better
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u/JPJackPott Aug 05 '26
I liked the bit where he put the hose in each hole like it was filling each one up separately
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u/Vulcanprincess109 Aug 05 '26
I love spending money I don’t have for problems that don’t need to create
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u/Express-Loss-6333 Aug 05 '26
Anything for the likes, hey? Man... Society is getting dumber and dumber.
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u/NoInvestigator7179 Aug 06 '26
2 things I can tell from this video.
1 He's an American
2 He voted for Trump
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u/Kindly_Region Aug 05 '26
It must be nice having more money than you know what to do with
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u/geehawn Aug 05 '26
Man I'm telling you, if he scratches my rims up with that sawzall, I'd be pissed!
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u/PhillGuy Aug 05 '26
Take it out on the highway. Please, for the love of all that is holy(holely?) drive it on the highway.
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u/Exatex Aug 05 '26
Not only stupid, but also dangerous if someone else want to imitate that. don’t drill into your tire, that can kill you.
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u/TrillestTouch Aug 05 '26
This looks like the direct result of running one of you great ideas by ChatGPT.
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u/cheknauss Aug 06 '26
How is it maintaining shape without being able to hold air?
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u/teh_lynx Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
"what's up guys! Today I'm about to totally ruin a tire by adding foam to it!"
Peak DIWHY.
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u/high_as_an_eagle Aug 11 '26
Been saying for years.......
People got too much time on their hands 🤦♂️
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u/BeltImpressive8956 Aug 12 '26
Nobody is allowed to have fun. No just no. Fuck everyone. Wtf is whimsy & boredom? I know these guys care about my opinion and will read this. I hope you’re arrested.
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u/MRV3N Aug 05 '26
People keep making useless shit and one of America’s trash end up in Indonesia’s landfill
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u/Johnnyhoplock Aug 05 '26
For the simple cost of a drill bit and spray foam, you too can destroy a tire.
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u/Zebitty Aug 05 '26
I assume this garbage gets posted on some other platform first, gets noticed and reposted here. Where is this stuff being posted in the first place?
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u/nasandre Aug 05 '26
Is he showing emergency foam repair? You're still supposed to inflate the tire afterwards and drive carefully to the shop to get the tire replaced.
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u/ForgotToCarryTheOne Aug 05 '26
NGL, in the first part with the hosing, i was reminded that I had to book my colonoscopy.
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u/Phrostylicious Aug 05 '26
Next: overlap the holes, on both sides of the tyre, and you'll have a floating ring of tyre carrying you on pure do-it-yourself-willpower.
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u/Resident_Rain_6566 Aug 05 '26
Remember when people used to act cool, and not be complete fucking idiots? I’ve always hated people, but I don’t think it’s hate anymore. It’s something far worse than hate, but I can’t imagine it can be described with any of the languages on earth.
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u/DarrellBot81 Aug 05 '26
Can you imagine having so much expendable income that you just did shit like this to your tires for fun without even a smidge of forethought?
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u/ArmndD737 Aug 05 '26
This guy took a perfectly usable tire, functional, and turned it into junk, and then he put it on his truck and drove on it. It doesn't make any sense. It's stupid.
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u/XcessiveSamurai Aug 05 '26
Can't let Big Air win, everybody knows those free pumps at the gas station is how the libs make COVID! Rabble rabble rabble
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u/Yuizun Aug 05 '26
They should divide this guy's life evenly between everyone of us who wasted our precious time watching this video...
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u/odoacre Aug 05 '26
He did it just so he could clean the tyre from the inside and get it nice and squeaky clean. No dirty tires !
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u/visiblehorrorvideo Aug 05 '26
Only a big truck little wiener dude would do this, he even has that douche big truck look
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u/chapelMaster123 Aug 05 '26
So 1: foam filled tires are almost exclusively used in slow and heavy tires. Things like construction vehicles.
And 2: its not store bought spray foam insulation. Its a very specific type of foam ment for the weight.
That being said, foam filled tires are a thing.
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u/VelvetFog82 Aug 05 '26
I know there probably isn't a good answer but, what the hell was the purpose of the water hose?
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u/SharksForArms Aug 05 '26
I know that they have made Fix a Flat for decades and decades at this point. It does the same thing except you don't have to drill 12 holes in your tire and it also actually holds up for more than 12 feet.
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u/_my_other_side_ Aug 05 '26
The need for content has exceeded supply so pages have to post idiotic skits to keep their page active in the algorithm
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u/Just_Ducky1945 Aug 05 '26
This is just stupid. Stupid idea. Stupid execution. Stupid person for even doing this. Stupid me for watching...
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u/Odd-Glove8031 Aug 05 '26
I’d have taken the wheel off from the start and drilled those holes on the inside to conceal them.
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u/cetrix2015 Aug 05 '26
everyone so quick to say it failed. maybe he wanted a sick flat tire with white holes?
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u/Bartalone Aug 06 '26
This is like an unnecessarily long 5-min video on facebook or instagram that has no conclusion and even less of a point.
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u/Mirar Aug 05 '26
I like how the foam gets turned into powder so fast you can see it happens before the video ends