Extra kit

duggan1

Ordered a new car and as expected it doesn't come with a spare tyre or anything like that.


I expect it comes with the locking nut thing....


What would someone recommend as kit to carry around that might get me to a tyre place if I pick up a puncture?

facade

The best thing is, of course, a spare wheel - you can buy one from a breakers, then you have the problem of where to put it.
My Nissan Note came with a wheelbarrow wheel as a spare, and the full size one I bought is miles bigger, but will go into the space deflated, if I jump up and down on it in the boot (I may need help to get it out though)

The next best thing is a decent electric pump, like this one then you can top up a puncture every few miles until you get home(I have one as my spare tyre is flat, it will inflate whilst I am taking the flat tyre off)

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/nikkai-heavy-duty-air-compressor-12v-140psi-a31hu

Wait until they are £15 on offer, usually every 3 months or so.

Once you squirt the sealant supplied with the car into the tyre Kwikfit etc. claim that they cannot repair it (a big lie: they don't want to repair it, there is no reason a tubeless repair won't work if you wipe the sealant off the repair area)

shaun_from_Africa

I agree 100% with façade.
If at all possible, buy a spare even if it is one of the spacesaver ones.
Tyre sealant works in some instances, but if there is a split in the tyre or the wheel is damaged due to something like hitting a pothole, then only a spare will get you home or to a garage.

A spacesaver wheel isn't too expensive nor will it take up much space in your boot, and there may well already be a place for it to be stowed.

forgotmyname

Didnt you get them to throw a spare in for free in the deal?

If it doesnt have a spare it will have the kit you need to get to a garage. Unless you get damage to the sidewall in which case you will wish you did haggle for that speare wheel.

Buy a spare. I would like an S-Max but no spare and nowhere to store one. Silly idea.

GwylimT

I have a deflated full size tyre as my spare, the actual wheel is from a scrap yard but the tyre is new, I have an electric pump incase I need to use it. It doesn't completely fit in the wheel well, but it's near enough, I have just put some wooden blocks either side so the covering above is flat to put shopping on etc.

Strider590

People complain about lack of spare wheel, but they dont complain about higher MPG.
Why do they think their new car comes with no spare?

Iceweasel

If it doesn't have a spare - it will either have a compressor and a bottle of the sealant fluid - or it may have run-flat tyres.

Many 'prestige' cars have run-flats and therefore have no jack or wheel-brace as well as no spare or space-saver.

The extra 'kit' I bought was all of the above - a space-saver, jack, wheel-brace, the compressor and fluid, and an aerosol can of the tyre-weld type stuff.

facade

Strider590 wrote: »

People complain about lack of spare wheel, but they dont complain about higher MPG.
Why do they think their new car comes with no spare?

Presumably penny pinching by the manufacturer, if they can save £5 on each car they sell, it adds up to a few extra cases of bubbly at the shareholders meeting. :cool:

As if the weight of a spare wheel makes any appreciable difference to mpg or performance: if I was that bothered I'd lose a couple of stone :rotfl:

nobbysn*ts

facade wrote: »

Presumably penny pinching by the manufacturer, if they can save £5 on each car they sell, it adds up to a few extra cases of bubbly at the shareholders meeting. :cool:

As if the weight of a spare wheel makes any appreciable difference to mpg or performance: if I was that bothered I'd lose a couple of stone :rotfl:

2.25 million cars registered in 2013. £11.25m is more than a few cases of bubbly. Shaving a penny washer off a car saves £22500 a year for the industry.

vikingaero

I would at least buy a sealant/gunk/compressor kit.

gilbert_and_sullivan

Only one person has asked why you didn't stipulate a spare wheel (plus kit) as part of the deal.

No wonder they don't bother supplying spares any more, they must assume the general car buying public are mugs.

Best of luck trying to sell a used car with no spare, i for one will walk away.