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Flat Tyre
technopersia
Posts: 78 Forumite
in Motoring
Hi, I was faced with a flat tyre when I came to my car this morning. the car is not at my registered home address (300 miles away).
I was wondering should I bother calling my breack down cover company (rescuemycar) to fix it? Do they repair the tyre or only change it? or neither?
First flat tyre (new driver) so just wondering.
many thanks
I was wondering should I bother calling my breack down cover company (rescuemycar) to fix it? Do they repair the tyre or only change it? or neither?
First flat tyre (new driver) so just wondering.
many thanks
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if theres a spare wheel in the car they will only change it..
not sure on their policy when theres only some of that gunk stuff (tyre repair crap)Sealed pot challenger # 10
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They'll put on the spare and tell you to go to the nearest tyre fitters, assuming that you have a spare and that it has air in it.
Why not take the opportunity to get acquainted with the jack and wheel brace and change it yourself? It'll be 20 minutes as opposed to an hour waiting for the tow truck.0 -
Why not take the opportunity to get acquainted with the jack and wheel brace and change it yourself?
You can, but my desire and ability to do so is dampened by the wheelnuts being tightened by electric machines and then you need the strength of 10(or more than I have got!) to get them undone.0 -
"Give me a lever long enough..."
Get some pipe and fit it over the wheel brace to extend the length. You'll find it much easier to move.
5t.What if there was no such thing as a rhetorical question?0 -
Tesco sell an extendable wheel brace for £3.99 (I think). I have 3 of them in each of our cars.The man without a signature.0
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Why three in each car-isn't that a bit OTT?No free lunch, and no free laptop
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You can, but my desire and ability to do so is dampened by the wheelnuts being tightened by electric machines and then you need the strength of 10(or more than I have got!) to get them undone.
Always the problem when your cars been anywhere near a tyre/exhaust/battery chain at any point in it's life.
I tried to change by wheels over 2 years ago, in the end I was using a long wheel brace with a 3ft length of scaffold pole, standing/bouncing on the damn thing.... Wouldn't budge! :mad:
These days I always ask for my wheel nuts to be hand tightened.....“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Weirdly enough, I am not surprised by that.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0
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I haven't been into a tyre fitters any time in the last 3 years where they've not finished them off with a torque wrench.0
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