No Spare Wheel...What a joke!!!

[Kula197]

Not having a spare wheel doesn't seem that big of a deal UNTIL you get a fookin punture!!!

Went to check tyres at Petrol Station last night, drivers side rear down to 10psi........GREAT.

Couldn't see a nail or anything, reinflated and it stayed pretty firm so limped home (15miles at 50mph) as didn't want to put tyre weld in incase tyre was repairable.

Go to Kwik Fit today, discover there is a piece of metal in top of tyre, but too close to sidewall to repair...GUTTED. Only done 1290 miles, there is so much tread left, it is like brand new.

To rub salt into the wound, Kwik Fit didn't have a tyre in srtock so have had to drive another 60 miles at low speed with metal still in.


Thats life I guess, but frustrating when the tyre is still like new......would be alot more straight forward if there was a spare wheel too!lol

 

[DrR]

How did you know the metal was in the top of the tyre and not the bottom?

 

[Kula197]

How did you know the metal was in the top of the tyre and not the bottom?

Very funny! :rasp:


One thing that did impress me (even though it is how it should be done it so often isn't these days), the lad at Kwik Fit did not use an air gun, at all!!

Not going to risk using the car tomorrow as have to go on m-way to work, can get a lift luckily!

 

[fUbAr]

buy a spare wheel then

 

[Revels]

Metal at the top and flat at the bottom.

Its a shame they werent together, that might have stopped it..

 

[Kula197]

buy a spare wheel then

Am seriously considering it, don't think I'd carry it around at all times, but in the situation I am in now it would be handy just to have one in the shed as backup!


Don't get me wrong, I knew the score when I bought the car, just as I did with my 182! Just something you take forgranted when you have one I guess!


More frustrating is that the tyre is so new I guess...

 

[Rob R26r]

Do the new Meganes (R26) have a spare?All this twin exit exhaust in place of the spare wheel seems a right pain in the arse.

 

[Ruffneck]

To rub salt into the wound, Kwik Fit didn't have a tyre in stock so have had to drive another 60 miles at low speed with metal still in.

Not another tyre bay within 60 miles?

 

[dick]

lol exactly what i thought, i know ive got at least 10 places within 2 miles of my house that do tyres. probably more thinking about it. ye at least 15.

 

[Kula197]

To rub salt into the wound, Kwik Fit didn't have a tyre in stock so have had to drive another 60 miles at low speed with metal still in.

Not another tyre bay within 60 miles?

Not on a Sunday! The only two within 15 miles of each other were both Kwik Fit and neither had stock. Was staying at my Mum's last night and had to drive back to my place (55 miles) ready for work tomorrow.

 

[Leeshez]

Get a wheel like this.

 

[ditz]

How did you know the metal was in the top of the tyre and not the bottom?

Very funny! :rasp:


One thing that did impress me (even though it is how it should be done it so often isn't these days), the lad at Kwik Fit did not use an air gun, at all!!

Not going to risk using the car tomorrow as have to go on m-way to work, can get a lift luckily!

dont understand why that would impress you or why thats a better way of doing it???
airguns do no damage at all if you know how to use one with the correct sockets etc to protect alloys, and do nothing but speed the job up?
they should always be torqued manually afterwards but i dont see how not using one is impressive

 

[Kula197]

Very funny! :rasp:


One thing that did impress me (even though it is how it should be done it so often isn't these days), the lad at Kwik Fit did not use an air gun, at all!!

Not going to risk using the car tomorrow as have to go on m-way to work, can get a lift luckily!

dont understand why that would impress you or why thats a better way of doing it???
airguns do no damage at all if you know how to use one with the correct sockets etc to protect alloys, and do nothing but speed the job up?
they should always be torqued manually afterwards but i dont see how not using one is impressive

It impressed me because, me, like many others on here have had wheel nuts overtightened by a brainless moron at a tyre fitters and as a result have had to go to great lengths to get them removed.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think that it is a feat of engineering or anything and I am totally aware that if airguns are used correctly they are absolutely fine, but surely you have seen them more often misused than used correctly, especially by people who are in a hurry?

 

[Ian_182]

That is a filthy looking clio mate

 

[Chili Red]

Not having a spare wheel doesn't seem that big of a deal UNTIL you get a fookin punture!!!

Went to check tyres at Petrol Station last night, drivers side rear down to 10psi........GREAT.

Couldn't see a nail or anything, reinflated and it stayed pretty firm so limped home (15miles at 50mph) as didn't want to put tyre weld in incase tyre was repairable.

Go to Kwik Fit today, discover there is a piece of metal in top of tyre, but too close to sidewall to repair...GUTTED. Only done 1290 miles, there is so much tread left, it is like brand new.

To rub salt into the wound, Kwik Fit didn't have a tyre in srtock so have had to drive another 60 miles at low speed with metal still in.


Thats life I guess, but frustrating when the tyre is still like new......would be alot more straight forward if there was a spare wheel too!lol

Similar thing happened to me. Got stuck in the most stupid inaccessible place in Cornwall with a blown tyre. After much drama eventually got a new tyre...which then got a puncture about two months later . I'd only driven about a mile with the tyre deflating, but it had buggered up the sidewall so needed a new one. FFS.

I feel your pain.

 

[Kula197]

Not having a spare wheel doesn't seem that big of a deal UNTIL you get a fookin punture!!!

Went to check tyres at Petrol Station last night, drivers side rear down to 10psi........GREAT.

Couldn't see a nail or anything, reinflated and it stayed pretty firm so limped home (15miles at 50mph) as didn't want to put tyre weld in incase tyre was repairable.

Go to Kwik Fit today, discover there is a piece of metal in top of tyre, but too close to sidewall to repair...GUTTED. Only done 1290 miles, there is so much tread left, it is like brand new.

To rub salt into the wound, Kwik Fit didn't have a tyre in srtock so have had to drive another 60 miles at low speed with metal still in.


Thats life I guess, but frustrating when the tyre is still like new......would be alot more straight forward if there was a spare wheel too!lol

Similar thing happened to me. Got stuck in the most stupid inaccessible place in Cornwall with a blown tyre. After much drama eventually got a new tyre...which then got a puncture about two months later . I'd only driven about a mile with the tyre deflating, but it had buggered up the sidewall so needed a new one. FFS.

I feel your pain.

Cheers mate,

It ain't tha big of a deal I know, just frustrating when you have a nice Sunday avo and want to go for a drive. Away with work for a few days this week (luckily getting a lift with someone) so getting a new Continental Contisport Contact 2 fitted on Friday. In a way glad Kwik Fit didn't have one, it is £36 cheaper at the independant tyre place I am going to!

 

[paul]

kwik fit are pretty good at pricing matching!! worth bearing in mind