On a trip to Pakistan in the mid 80s, I saw an old Morris Minor taxi which had what looked like low profile tyres.
On closer inspection, they were solid tyres - as far as I could tell moulded somehow into the rims. No tread. No valves.
This prompted me to look for others. Sure enough, it wasn?t the only one.
Westerners are advised to avoid the yellow top taxis but they hang around the hotels etc and often have tots who will try to direct you to one.
just saw a wummin drive for miles off a motorway in a mini on the hard shoulder on a flat rear...probably didn't have a spare....it's the modern way...it is going to cost you a fortune anyway because you don't have a spare and the tyre is probably trashed anyway so why not...
It might have prevented it happening the first time. Most blow outs don?t just happen. They?re usually due to an unnoticed slow puncture leading to the tyre?s sidewalls massively overheating.
Another Tim
I know someone who had a complete tyre shred incident recently.
No spare wheel in his car so he called the breakdown service. The chap turned up (it was pitch dark by then), and asked if he'd attempted to use the emergency repair foam. 'No', said my friend, 'but you're free to give it go' , as he handed him the canister..........
I dont think I have had a slow puncture in years in the car.
Last few have been potholes leading to massive and instant scrappage of wheel and tyre, or a knife through the sidewall from an ecohippy.
Round here the way some of the idiots drive that tyre would be good enough for another 100,000 miles.
Richard
Either watch the road more carefully or drive at a more sensible speed.
I don't think the modern trend of supplying a can of instant tyre fix would have helped with mine much :-) Fortunately, its old enough to have a proper (if skinny) spare.
I had not seen any loss of pressure in any of the tyres prior to this.
It would guess I picked up something sharp in the roadworks - lots of crap tends to accumulate beside those concrete barriers they tend to place beside temporary lanes.
Sure he didn't specify the tyres himself?
Our MH came with repair gunge as standard (I bought a spare wheel as I don?t trust it even on cars).
The tyres on the MH are inflated to 80psi on the rear, 72.5 front.
The thought of trusting a vehicle weighing (loaded) over 3.5 tonnes ( ours is plated at 3.65T) to gunge doesn?t apply.
I lost four tyre in one year to sudden blow outs caused by road debris penetrating the side walls.
two of my cars have full size the other spacesaver...
I've had two near new wrecked too by things like woodscrews - too close to the edge to fix. In a modest mileage. Not funny at £250 a pop.
It wouldn't have worked for me. I have had two blowouts - one caused by a 4" hose falling off a tanker and the metal fitting on the end going straight under my tyre and the other by having to avoid someone who'd over-corrected after giving the learner in front of me too much room on a country road, forcing me to catch the tyre on the rough edge of the tarmac.
I took to putting the oldest tyre on the front nearside, which seemed to be favourite for getting damaged. Then something bit a chunk out of the inside wall of my nearside rear.
:-) Actually his Mum took the car to the garage and drove for 4 miles ripping the wings off every time she hit a bump on the road.
I helped him swap a puncture on the van the other day using a trolly jack. He had never used one and had no idea where to place it or how to use it - he does now including driving onto a brick to get the jack under the van.
I seldom mention this one much because he is f****ng brilliant and a pleasure to work with. At the start of his 3rd year he could be left on his own to do rewires and newbuilds.
I doubt she'd have specified anything other than the correct size for the car? Unless, of course, being a youngster's car, it had different wheels on it? But if standard wheels, I'd say you'd have a claim against the tyre place if you simply asked for new tyres, and they fitted oversize ones.
On the old Rover, I use the car jack to raise it enough to get the trolley jack in. And have them both. On the principle that one might just stay up. ;-)
Good to hear they're not all bad.
I think that unless you asked for a specific size, you'd have a good claim if they fitted anything other than the same size that was already on. You can't go by model as there are often a number of optional wheel and tyre sizes.
Don't most have the options on a plate inside the door, along with tyre pressures? But the options are usually for bigger wheels on that exact model - so fitting the tyres for that wheel size would be correct. A higher performance version with wider tyres would have a different plate.
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