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****Motors Chat Thread Round 4****
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toastedpickles wrote: »:eek: where were you coming from??
It took me an hour to get to college, left at half 6 got there at half 7, feckin college was still closed :pac: So nobody can ever blame me for being late :P
See belowMetzgerMeister wrote: »Yep, bring it to a tyre shop and get them to patch the puncture and all's good again. c. €10 - €15 for the repair
Ah didn't know that.
Halfway on my trek this morning, I pulled into services to get petrol/coffee. I was on the motorway and yesterday I checked my tyre pressure so all was fine and the car was tipping along nicely.
Come out of shop and the person parked beside me pointed out to me that my front tyre was practically flat. Decide that it can't be a puncture as the car was fine five minutes before on the motorway so go to pump it up, no joy.
Then I decide that the air machine is obviously not working, so attempt to drive car out. It was unpleasant. Drove to the car park, and prepared to put on spare crappy wheel (one of those "do not drive about 80kph things)
Jack up car, then attempt to take off the wheel nuts. ****ers won't budge. Take off coat (bear in mind I was in a suit/formal coat etc) and start jumping on jack to persuade nuts to move. No joy. (must point out several people offered to help but to no avail)
Then I have a brainwave, sure isn't there another services the other side of the motorway and an exit a mile up the road! "Brilliant, I think, I'll just toddle over there, their air machine is sure to be working, so I'll pump it up find the nearest town and get the puncture repaired"
Bad idea, next exit was 10 miles up the motorway and led to a small town. I'd a tortuous time limping down the motorway with the hazards on. Get to small town. There is traffic chaos in said small town as a cement lorry has smashed into the side of a new passat attempting to turn onto main street, is blocking the entire width of main street, and the place is at a standstill.
Eventually I find a petrol station and air machine again doesn't work. At this stage I've rung to advise I'll be late for work, and I call rescue, and explain sadly that I cannot loosen the ****ing wheel nuts.
Then I go to get a coffee, and spill the coffee all over the outside of my car from the roof down.
Eventually rescue phone, enquiring if I am the lady in distress and inform me that they shall be my knight in shining armour. (I kid you not!)
They then arrive, and attempt to take off the wheel nuts, but cannot Turns out the nuts have been ringed from being machine tightened, so next thing I know yer man arrives out with a massive sledge hammer. Using the sledge hammer he gets the jack into the wheel nuts and eventually gets them off. (all the while giving me a running commentary on my car, how brakes work etc)
As I'd over forty miles to go to get to work still, I followed him back to get a new tyre, and once sorted set out to get to work, promptly got lost, and ended up on possibly the bendiest road in the country.
I finally got to work close to lunchtime.
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Women :rolleyes:
Ah no if you were driving on that wheel and it was basically flat I'd have a good look at it because the lip of the rim could have destroyed the sidewall.
If thats the case it's too dangerous to put back on Stheno.0 -
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Women :rolleyes:
Ah no if you were driving on that wheel and it was basically flat I'd have a good look at it because the lip of the rim could have destroyed the sidewall.
If thats the case it's too dangerous to put back on Stheno.
The garage who looked at it were happy with the wheel itself, they put a new tyre on it this morning. I'd have had to get it repaired/replaced today as I couldn't do the 120 odd miles I needed to on the spare.
@ ba I think I must have driven over something coming off the motorway and into the services, I was doing 120 kph on the motorway and there wasn't any indication anything was wrong.0 -
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Ah didn't know that.
Halfway on my trek this morning, I pulled into services to get petrol/coffee. I was on the motorway and yesterday I checked my tyre pressure so all was fine and the car was tipping along nicely.
Come out of shop and the person parked beside me pointed out to me that my front tyre was practically flat. Decide that it can't be a puncture as the car was fine five minutes before on the motorway so go to pump it up, no joy.
Then I decide that the air machine is obviously not working, so attempt to drive car out. It was unpleasant. Drove to the car park, and prepared to put on spare crappy wheel (one of those "do not drive about 80kph things)
Jack up car, then attempt to take off the wheel nuts. ****ers won't budge. Take off coat (bear in mind I was in a suit/formal coat etc) and start jumping on jack to persuade nuts to move. No joy. (must point out several people offered to help but to no avail)
Then I have a brainwave, sure isn't there another services the other side of the motorway and an exit a mile up the road! "Brilliant, I think, I'll just toddle over there, their air machine is sure to be working, so I'll pump it up find the nearest town and get the puncture repaired"
Bad idea, next exit was 10 miles up the motorway and led to a small town. I'd a tortuous time limping down the motorway with the hazards on. Get to small town. There is traffic chaos in said small town as a cement lorry has smashed into the side of a new passat attempting to turn onto main street, is blocking the entire width of main street, and the place is at a standstill.
Eventually I find a petrol station and air machine again doesn't work. At this stage I've rung to advise I'll be late for work, and I call rescue, and explain sadly that I cannot loosen the ****ing wheel nuts.
Then I go to get a coffee, and spill the coffee all over the outside of my car from the roof down.
Eventually rescue phone, enquiring if I am the lady in distress and inform me that they shall be my knight in shining armour. (I kid you not!)
They then arrive, and attempt to take off the wheel nuts, but cannot Turns out the nuts have been ringed from being machine tightened, so next thing I know yer man arrives out with a massive sledge hammer. Using the sledge hammer he gets the jack into the wheel nuts and eventually gets them off. (all the while giving me a running commentary on my car, how brakes work etc)
As I'd over forty miles to go to get to work still, I followed him back to get a new tyre, and once sorted set out to get to work, promptly got lost, and ended up on possibly the bendiest road in the country.
I finally got to work close to lunchtime.
Fecking disaster of a day
If you're stuck taking the other nuts off I use a scaffolding pole on a breaker bar. Failing that I have this bad boy sitting in my garage and love any excuse to use it
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Come out of shop and the person parked beside me pointed out to me that my front tyre was practically flat. Decide that it can't be a puncture as the car was fine five minutes before on the motorway so go to pump it up, no joy---
tough day for you.
Interestingly, tyre losing pressure over short time is good sign of puncture 0 -
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cabb8ge wrote:Interestingly, tyre losing pressure over short time is good sign of puncture
Ya don't say!?! :eek:0 -
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If you're stuck taking the other nuts off I use a scaffolding pole on a breaker bar. Failing that I have this bad boy sitting in my garage and love any excuse to use it:D:D
I'm now going to check all the nuts and replace any that are warped, so if the offer is there, I may take you up on it?@stheno that tyre sounds like a pain. Did you try one of the extendable bars which you put the socket on the end off. Very handy to have as they give extra leverage you can often get them in lidl I have one and my dad has one in his car I also got one for my mothers car not that she would even attempt to change a tyre. I also have one of those air compressors that go in the cigarette lighter 7.50 euro in halfords again handy to have. Sometimes they seriously over tighten them nuts with the airguns in the tyre places.
I was taking of a tyre on the astra before and the nuts were seriously tight I struggled to get them off I literally had to put all my force into getting them off and I'm not small and that was with the extendable socket you wouldn't of had a hope getting it of with the standard short ones that come with the cars.
The nuts are warped, even using a four inch lever the repair/rescue guy couldn't get the jack to sit in without using a sledgehammer, the sharp edges on them are rounded, it's like a warped phillips screw, where the screwdriver can't get the grip if that makes sense?tough day for you.
Interestingly, tyre losing pressure over short time is good sign of puncture
Pressure was fine last week, the past three days I've driven what I would normally drive in six weeks so wouldn't have been a clear indicator to me that there was a problem, and when I checked the pressure last night there was a small drop from the norm, certainly nothing to suggest an issue.
I'd previously a problem with a different tyre loosing pressure and got it replaced.
Now that it's over and done with, some of the nice things were:
1. The amount of people who stopped and asked if they could help, get me a coffee, whatever, it was lovely.
2. The rescue guy, he was an older man, and definitely had views on women drivers, and we ended up having a good chat about the car (which he loved, raved about the seats lol) and he was admiring the little toolkit I keep in the boot
3. THe overall company he works for, very hospitable, got a lovely cup of tea when I got there, and they give Axa customers a 1/3 discount off tyres.
Any of you in the midlands who are looking for tyres and are Axa customers, might do worse than to consider using them 0 -
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You can surely just let me know in advance
You're a star, thanks so much Given the state of the nuts on the wheel that I'd the puncture on today, I'm checking the others tomorrow, and tbh, I didn't want to be bothering my mechanic asking him to do it, so if we can give it a go that would be great.
One of the little gems from the older man today (who really was lovely to deal with) was when he was trying to figure out how my spare fits in the boot (it attaches vertically to a series of bolts in front of the battery) and I was explaining it to him, and he said "just get the garage who fit the new nuts to do that for you". I said to him "ah no, sure I know how to do that myself, sure I've changed the battery in it and had to dismantle it". He was a bit gobsmacked lol0 -
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