Tyre puncture caused by Gravel area..??

sujsuj

Jeepers_Creepers said:

As Adrian says, a tyre bead leak is either down to a corroded rim (not in your case - too young), a poor sealing job by the tyre fitter (possible), a bad moulding on the tyre (possible), damage caused to the alloy inside rim during fitting (possible), an almost-flat tyre being driven on (possible - but unlikely as you'd know), or driving on pea gravel (only kidding - it ain't that).

Having it happen to two cars is quite possibly a red herring, if clearly unfortunate; do you know for sure this new leak is also a bead seal issue?

Don't know...I am trying to link  two recent punctures  (where we drive rarely now due to Covid lockdown) to change in surroundings like from tarmac road /parking to Gravel area...Not sure I am correct  but  checking if that's a possibility..? 
But haven't seen anyone agreeing on this so may not be a direct co-relation here...

NameUnavailable

One of my cars has a tyre that deflates over a few weeks - it's not the tyre it's the wheel. I keep meaning to get around to having it looked at.

Another cause can be a leaking valve. You can buy a tool to tighten valves, worth a try.

Don't use that emergency tyre foam stuff if you can help it because it usually means the puncture cannot then be repaired. Pump the tyre up and take it to a tyre shop - they will check it and unless there's a nail through the sidewall can probably repair it (they will also then tell you the cause).

As another thought there could be some little brat around that thinks it's funny to let the new peoples tyres down?

sujsuj

NameUnavailable said:

One of my cars has a tyre that deflates over a few weeks - it's not the tyre it's the wheel. I keep meaning to get around to having it looked at.

Another cause can be a leaking valve. You can buy a tool to tighten valves, worth a try.

Don't use that emergency tyre foam stuff if you can help it because it usually means the puncture cannot then be repaired. Pump the tyre up and take it to a tyre shop - they will check it and unless there's a nail through the sidewall can probably repair it (they will also then tell you the cause).

As another thought there could be some little brat around that thinks it's funny to let the new peoples tyres down?

Thanks..No one can come inside my compound as its well fenced.. 

AlexMac

Find a decent tyre shop.  Engage with them.  Ask 'em what the problem is of the many suggestions above...

But I bet it's nothing to do with gravel... Despite the bizarre theory that someone with a grudge against people who can afford an gravel drive  is embedding sharp metal objects in the shingle (paranoid? Toi?).

I've been driving for 56 years.  Had only about 10  punctures.    Three were in a single month on a second hand Beemer I'd bought only a week or so before .   So obviously, the previous owner had driven over shrapnel.  Otherwise they were the usual culprits; scews or nails (presumably shed by builders' vans)  which eventually worked through the tyre tread.  One was a really random sharp thorn tree cutting; a bit of a tree from a recently pruned Hawthorn on a Country Lane which jerked into my sidewall.  Another even more bizarre one, in about 1978 was the projecting shard of a broken wine bottle neck upended in the mud in a campsite in Marseille; which was more like a refugee camp than Club 18-30 (luckily, we had a spare for the 2CV, so made it home).

So I'm saying it's a matter of luck...   unless you've got low profile tyres?

My mate with silly Bling Low Profile tyres - the ones with big rims and narrow rubber that look pimpy - has a couple of punctures a year rather than my "one every 8-10 year" average.   

Is that your problem?

sujsuj

Old post, but I thought I’d update this group as you guys gave me lots of helpful advice and input.

I bought a metal detector for another purpose and decided to scan my gravel area. The results were shocking — I found hundreds of nails, probably left behind from previous construction work, scattered around my gated compound.

I’ve now gone through the whole gravel area, scanned it, and removed all the metal pieces. Hopefully, no more complaints or worries now!

A £20 metal detector bought for another reason probably saved me a lot of trouble here.

Thanks again for all the helpful advice! 👍

QrizB

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