Tyre blew out on my car when away with work

Aylesbury_Duck

daveyjp wrote: »

Were the tyres in good condition and at the correct pressure before you set off on a 200 mile trip?

Depends if the employer checked. It was a business trip, after all.

System

Zola. wrote: »

Perhaps, although it was whilst on service with work... it shouldn't cost me money to go on a work trip ultimately ?

I will probably say nothing, although it is rather annoying..

If you'd not gone on the work journey it would've blown anyway doing a journey for yourself.

As an aside, do you have business use on your car insurance or your employer cover your vehicle under their policy? If not you were driving uninsured which is a bigger concern than whether or not to claim for a tyre.

silverwhistle

Ooh, AD, behave. :-)

We can all sympathise that it should take place on a long trip away, but that's just luck of the draw.

My first car was an old £100 banger and I'd have loved to have got mileage for a trip to HO, which was 65/70 miles EW but unfortunately I was obliged to use the Maestro diesel pool cars... (A couple of trips would have been well on the way to paying for the thing.) On one occasion I had to go and see someone reasonably senior and no pool car was available, but couldn't use mine as it hadn't been worthwhile insuring for business use.

I hope yours was insured and not just to and from usual place of work.

Zola.

Merlin139 wrote: »

Straight forward answer! Breakdown cover! You could have stopped and someone could have changed it for you and tyre not ruined.

When you say blew out, do you mean you got a puncher?

Having been in a car when a tyre exploded at 70 mph in lane 3 of the M3 a few years ago I was told by the ambulance crew at the scene that I was lucky to have gotten out of the car when it came to rest in a load of trees. 2 weeks before they had to get the fire crew to cut the trees out of the people.

Is this the culture we live in claim for everything?

I have breakdown cover, its for breakdowns......Do I want to wait 2 hours for them to come and change my tyre at that time of the night, when I can do it myself in 5 mins?

arcon5

If your engine blew would you want them to pay. The tyre was subject to much personal use as business use.

timbotambo

As someone above said, your expenses policy will dictate this. I got a puncture whilst on a business trip and my expenses policy is very clear that this is covered so I claimed £175 for it no problem.

Comms69

Zola. wrote: »

I have breakdown cover, its for breakdowns......Do I want to wait 2 hours for them to come and change my tyre at that time of the night, when I can do it myself in 5 mins?

Someone at work was trying to convince me that it was illegal to change the tyre yourself these days.....

mchale

Merlin139 wrote: »

Straight forward answer! Breakdown cover! You could have stopped and someone could have changed it for you and tyre not ruined.

Why do you need breakdown cover, change it yourself, if you have got the tools in the car a flat tyre is not a breakdown.

[Deleted User]

You won't be able to claim off your employer for a new tyre but what you can do is stop doing shizzle for your employer using your car. Unless your employment specifically requires you to use your own car.

I used to run around doing shizzle for my employer at 30p a mile. I stopped when it was starting to knack my car up taking heavy stock to other locations etc.

Senseicads

I think I am on the side of the OP here unlike everyone else on here it seems.


I think that there is a reasonable expectation here that as long as the tyres were maintained that you don't really expect a tyre to blow out. If the OP hadn't maintained the tyres then all bets are off like. As it happened "on duty" as it where, then I would expect my company to pick up the bill for the tyre. The only sticky wicket I could see is if they have a specific exlusion in their expense policy, my company doesn't, but if they did then I don't actually think I would drive my car in the first place. If it was a company vehicle, or a hire vehicle that had been provided to the employee do you think they should be responsible for that tyre then blow out then??