yorkie
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- Location
- pe34 norfolk,but not born there
AirMan ResQ Emergancy Tyre Repair Kit, with easy valve through punture repair tyre selant, Air Compressor, suitable for all car makes and models on amazon you can repair apter and it works
Dad - the car is making a funny noise
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Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
My daughter came home for Christmas in her new car one year. It was a filthy time on the roads and she worried by announcing that she was going off Boxing Day to pick up 2 friends then drive to Gatwick for skiing trip. Dad goes all protective, I had better check over your car . Went out washed the screens , checked the car then topped up the washer bottle or so I thought. Actually was the brakes I had topped with washer fluid. It was opposite side to old car! Mass panic as I realised finding fresh brake fluid on Christmas Day was not easy!
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
One of my mates at college used to buy his cars from the scrap yard. When they broke down, he'd get another. His digs were 8 miles from college. He got a flat but ran it for a week on the rim as (he said) he didn't have time to go and get another. Must have been around 1960. I wonder if anyone here remembers that?
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Yes, but for females that is something to mention to a male about 2 weeks after the warning light comes on.“Download the future of breakdown”
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Only works if you know you have a problem tho. Maybe this is why they fit tyre pressure sensors to some cars now.....
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Admittedly it’s about 30 or more years ago now, but as soon as my sister got her licence she said to me - show me how to change a flat tyre so I know how to do it
whereas my wife ( who grew up in Sydney & spent most of her adult life there ) wouldn’t have a clue . . .
whereas my wife ( who grew up in Sydney & spent most of her adult life there ) wouldn’t have a clue . . .
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
in all fairness, the old crossplys on Morris 1000s and the like didn't add much to the ride when they were inflated, and gave the driver the chance to roll a ciggie if the road was groovy enough.
Progress is having a puncture on your smart new car and discovering it didn't come with a spare. Bottles of gunk are useless with all the potholes ewe have round the New Forest, so ebay is the only answer for a spare wheel. There must be loads of Skodas parked up in Liverpool with one wheel missing.
It isn't just females that can't change tyres - my sister lives in North London and is constantly amazed how utterly useless her friend's husbands/partners/sons are when it comes to doing anything remotely practical. On one occasion while on holiday she changed the wheel on a friend's car, with husband and 2 teenaged boys as useless spectators.
It is almost a matter of pride not to be able to do anything in some parts of society
It is almost a matter of pride not to be able to do anything in some parts of society
No spare wheel, no jack,no wheelbrace Hence the reason if anyone had bought kitThey are called 'spare wheels'
Dman2
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- Location
- Durham, UK
It`s ok @Nearly will sell you one
Had an idiot come into the yard on friday because he'd got a blow out due to a pot hole on the road at the end of our drive. I pointed out that it was a public highway and nothing to do with us and his reply was that we'd made the pothole because of farm traffic. Told him to do one and have now had a letter from his solicitor requesting payment for the tyre! I am going to run with this as I would like to see what the small claims court says seeing that the pot hole is on a public highway and 100m from our farm entrance. I am going to run up this idiots legal bill for a few months.
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
2wheels
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
- Location
- Yorkshire
Had my first experience with a vehicle with no spare wheel recently.......I can safely say a can of glue and a compressor are not the future....the only saving grace it was in a carpark not on the hard shoulder of a motorway!
- Location
- leics/warks border
Mrs Britt phoned from side of the A5 to say that she had a puncture, when she told me where it was i told her to drive to the next turn and park in the layby. "Won't it damage the tyre though ?" she asked. "If you you sit there too long it'll be more than the tyre that's wrecked, get moving !" A bolt had gone through the tyre and was beyond the bottle of snot and compressor and needed replacing anyway.
- Location
- Cirencester
Had a similar thing here, but a Cotswold stone wall had fallen down, was contacted and told it was because of the vibration all the farm traffic caused and I should be paying for it's repair. Told them exactly what I thought of them and heard nothing thereafter. It's amazing what some folk will try on
That was my problem split in the tyre,fortunately I saw the split before using the glue and compressor
3500miles is all the tyre had done
- Location
- Yorkshire
I'm sure manufactures would say its to keep costs down, but I'd much sooner have a spare wheel, than rely on a tin of glue in the rain and dark in the middle of winter!
Nukemall
Member
Been there and done it, now specify spare and kit as part of the deal when I order the car. (Used to be standard issue when the car manufacturers were more sensible)
Tomr10
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I have bought one separately theres space for it just not there
- Location
- S E Glos
Also been there and done it, fortunately the glue was white so I could see it in the dark and rain on a windswept common, as it spurted out of the hole in the tyre as I pumped it up.