When was the last time your car had a puncture?

Atlantic Dawn

Just wondering with the trend to no spare wheel coming with a lot of new cars when was the most recent time you had a puncture?

Mine was about 2 years ago, was a slow puncture so had enough time to get home and change to the spare wheel.

Odyssey 2005

A hex on your house for even thinking about this topic .

GustavoFring

Had a nail in a tyre about three months ago, coming off the M50 a car had a blow out and sure enough whatever caused his was stuck in my tyre.

Last proper one was about 3 years ago, hit angle iron on the road that wrecked the tyre and the wheel.

I wouldn't trust not having a spare tbh.

wonski

Never.

I said the same about penalty points and got a letter from Garda a week later

Let me check my spare wheel just in case

Gumbo

Should have 'over 10 years ago' option.
I'm driving since I was 17 and have only had one puncture in that time in my first civic.

*hopefuly not jinxed it now.

mickdw

I'd say one or 2 punctures on tyres that were fit for purpose in the last 20 years.
I've had a few in my younger years where the tyres were well past it.

HeidiHeidi

One incredibly slow puncture in a brand new car about 18 months ago (no spare wheel :eek:)

It was so slow, it didn't even occur to me that it could be a puncture. I just topped it up every two weeks or so for about six months, and assumed it was a faulty valve or something.

Eventually brought it in to see what the story was, and they pulled a HUGE screw out of the tyre :eek:.

Not a bother since.

blackcard

Have found that tyres are difficult to remove compared to what they used to be. Had to get in under the car to kick the tyre.

mel.b

I've had two in the three yrs i've had this car. Most recent one was only about 2mths ago when i ran over a couple of keys that had been dropped on the road. The noise it made, i thought there was a rock bouncing around the undercarriage at first. Thr keys got well and truely wedged into the tyre and i needed a complete new tyre.

The second was a very small leak that was able to be patched. No idea what caused that.

Jimbob1977

Slow puncture all week

The tyre fitter pulled out a four-inch nail today.

My car did not come with a spare tyre. I don't like the concept.

One of the most important accessories that a car should have.

elperello

blackcard wrote: »

Have found that tyres are difficult to remove compared to what they used to be. Had to get in under the car to kick the tyre.

Don't try this at home (or anywhere else!)

Voodoomelon

3 punctures in as many years. Have been unlucky. All in Dundalk.

Four Phucs Ache

2012.

On the way to the takeaway around 9 I heard a faint pop and just thought the passenger mirror hit a long twig as I passed.The steering got extremely heavy 5 mins later and the sh1tty noise of a flat had arrived.
2 mins later I couldn't steer at all.Stopped and got out to see both front tyres were flat.I live in the midlands and was miles from the town on a back road.Got towed home 2 hours later.

Got the torch and found metal shards like offcuts from a sheet of steel that must have fell out of a trailer or skip.

Was raging I didnt get me curry !

CalamariFritti

Had an allen key in the tyre 2 months ago, last one before that was a screw, I'd say about 5 years back.

Just realised the car I picked as my new car has no spare tyre even though its an estate means there should be plenty of room for it. Madness.

jimbis

Last one on my car was about a year ago, ironically the same week I bought a tyre machine. Went to put my spare on and it wouldnt fit .

Got a puncture in my mothers car at Halloween on the way to a fancy dress party. A fully dressed clown changing a wheel on the side of the Naas road was some sight

Grolschevik

Two flats in the last year, after nothing since the '90s, apart from a pot hole that destroyed the wheel.

Danbo!

Had a focus, the missus must have had 5 punctures in the thing in 3 years. I gave her a lot of grief until one sunday morning, in waterford for a stag, and went to drive home with 4 lads. All very proud to be hangover free and hitting the road at 10am. Flat tyre. Worn down wheel brace. Had to call breakdown assist, waited about 2 hours so some poor fella on call could come out and put on the space saver. Nowhere open to fix it, so back to Dublin at 80hm/h. Devastating.

pawrick

2 slow punctures in past 3 years. Both times I was fortunate enough to have spotted it in time and was near a repair shop.

ml100

pawrick wrote: »

2 slow punctures in past 3 years. Both times I was fortunate enough to have spotted it in time and was near a repair shop.

As the building trade picks up the number of punctures will increase with more skips etc on the road losing their loads, when they were building the Dundrum shopping centre I was getting punctures every 4-5 months, mainly screws in the tyres.

Blazer

Have a very slow one a few weeks ago, I have run flats so was still able pump it up and drive for a few days till i got it repaired. Not something i recommend but it was taking nearly 4 days for the tire to fully deflate so i took the chance as I couldn't get near a garage to repair

Terrontress

Picked up my new car on 22nd December 2016. <1,000 miles later and a puncture on 17th January. Something has taken a massive chunk out of the tyre, I have just driven through some roadworks. The car is a Skoda Yeti and the tyres are Nexen, which I have never heard of.

I tried to pump it up with the compressor supplied but the air just came straight back out. I knew that the tyre sealant wasn't going to work so I drove the 1 mile back home at 5mph, then got the AA to put it up on a jack and take me to a tyre dealer.

Kamili

I've had three in a year. All brand new tyres too.

First one was a three week old tyre, very sharp stone in a friends driveway (covered with stones) went straight through the tyre.

Second one was a country lane, some arsehole came too fast up the wrong side of the road and I had to swerve into the ditch to get away from him. Hit a massive piece of metal rod which tore strips out of the tyre and it exploded. That was fun.

Third one was a nail which I think I collected on the M50.

Expensive year.

Alanstrainor

Had a slow puncture maybe a year ago, it was my first ever. I was able to pump it up and get home without much issue, but made me wonder how my 15 year old space save would fair if I needed it!

fancy pigeon

Puncture there in late December on the way back from Claremorris after getting a cheeseburger.

Before that was 2015, had a blowout on the M1 at approx 130kmh; near enough an exit and safely off to change the tyre. Not for the faint hearted!

About 40k miles ago

Notch000

driving 19 yrs and never had an actual pucnture, have had numbeous slow punctures that were managed through a quick pump and one nail removed without ever deflating at a tyre center,

vandriver

In the past ten years easily 30 punctures.The most bizarre was the spare space saver tyre that was burst putting it back in the wheel well (a thumb tack had fallen in!)

Noveight

Last puncture I remember getting was a slow one but it's over a year ago.

I've been lucky considering I do 400-600km a week, none of it on motorway.

Alun

None of the poll options apply to me.

Until I moved to Ireland in 2001 I had never had a single puncture in over 20 years of driving. Then I got 2 punctures within the first year, and not a single one since.

Skylinehead

Probably about 2 years ago, narrow road and I had a choice of hitting a rock that had fallen onto the road (heavy winds the night before) or an oncoming car, didn't really have the time to stop before I saw it. Took a chunk out of the sidewall, just about made it to Ashtown stables where the owner was sound enough to bring me to a tyre place. No spare, the foam wasn't fixing this:

CJhaughey

My Accord estate came with no spare, I bought a set of civic 16" steels with decent Michelins for 60 euro.
Took out the stupid box that fitted into the spare wheel well and tossed it.
Bolted the spare into the space provided using the mounting provided.
Put the Compressor and bottle of Jizz into the wheel well along with some other safety gear.
4 months back I picked up a chromed brass needle that flattened the tyre and by the time I pulled in the tyre was wrecked.

Opened the boot and fitted the spare, took less than 5 mins to do.

18mths ago I was driving the wifes car back from the NCT with the family onboard, heard a flapping sound and pulled in once I found a safe place.
Tyre had a 2" slit in it and wasn't repairable.
5 mins later I had the spare on and we were motoring again.

No spare is total idiocy unless you live near a town with a 24hr tyre place, Space saver is better than nothing but still not great.
Best is a full size spare.