The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
I needed to clean the limescale out of my hot water cylider and replace the immersion. Is a bit of a performance taling the hot tank roight out.
Always the way for me....Cars parked very tight to our wee runway (drive) today so went out to stand in the road whilst Mrs J reversed the Panda into the road. Waved goodbye to her and turned to walk back to the front door and Oh! O/S/R tyre on the Ibiza is flat, really flat. Swopped it out for the spare which is a full size I bought to supplement the bottle of gunge she comes with as standard. Inflated the flat tyre and at first can't hear or see a leak so painted it with solution of washing up liquid and water and, damn it, there's the leak. It's in the shoulder at the side of the tread almost into the sidewall so not repairable damn it! Closer examination reveals a very small shard of glass has penetrated right through. The really gutting thing is I renewed all the tyres this year and there's only about a mil's worth of wear on it!
The first time my wife borrowed my car to get to work, 2 months old and she found the biggest nail in the world.Always the way for me....
It could be worse I managed to do a not even 2 week continental sports tyre a few years ago.
That was spectacularly annoying...the little rubber bobbles and coloured strips hadn't even worn off it..oh and it wasn't cheap either.
Top effort!The first time my wife borrowed my car to get to work, 2 months old and she found the biggest nail in the world.
I agree, one of the biggest "bug bears" in recent years is manufacturers penny pinching by not including a spare wheel. They can sell you a car "limited" to a 155 Mph which to use is illegal, but not give you a spare wheel which is esential!Top effort!
The winner for me would have been if when in courtesy car that had no spare (modern era yay)...and my pump etc were in the boot of my car...I'd managed to destroy a tyre on a car with 1k miles on it that didn't belong to me and that I was liable to replace. I'd done 6 miles in it..
Thankfully it held air long enough to limp to garage down the road and I didn't have to use the goo so it was repairable.
I think the main message of this thread appears to be punctures still absolutely happen with modern tyres...they just want to save the cost of a spare/use the space for under floor storage.
The AA has had to start including a bunch of new bits and pieces on the vans.I agree, one of the biggest "bug bears" in recent years is manufacturers penny pinching by not including a spare wheel. They can sell you a car "limited" to a 155 Mph which to use is illegal, but not give you a spare wheel which is esential!
I recall a few years ago going out to a regular customers daughters car in pouring rain at night (anyone but a good regular I would have declined) she had caught the kerb and damaged both the tyre and rim, I reach for the spare tyre...... nothing just a stupid out of date bottle of gunk and a toy compressor, none of which would have got the driver mobile. It's bad enough that manufacturers make car electronics unrepairable at road side, but a simple tyre/wheel issue has to involve a car transporter or AA/RAC membership is pretty poor in my book.
If any of my or my daughters cars comes without a spare wheel I make a point of getting one and they have been shown how to change a wheel also!
I understand manufacturers are obliged to include a spare wheel for some Countries, Why Not Here!!!
if you look it goes in through the tread and out the side wall, it was about 6 inches in lengthhow the hell did she manage to get a nail there in the sidewall driving to work?
Think this would be one of those things that makes a difference in theory rather than practice.can I just drive at normal speeds or should I be limiting progress to 30mph - or whatever - due to the wheel not being an alloy?
sorry Charlie, ET figures?Hi Jock
Are the ET figures the same ?... other than that I would be happier with your proposal than with 4 x odd tyres![]()
You can drive at normal speeds, as it is effectively the same wheel/tyre.Now here's a thought. As the Ibiza came with just a bottle of gunge, I bought a standard steel rim - genuine VAG product as fitted standard to the base version of my vehicle. The base model uses the same 185/60R15 size tyre as mine and the wheel width and offset of the steel wheel is the same as the alloys which came with my vehicle. So from the point of view of dimensions and tyre speed rating etc the steel wheel is identical to my alloy - and, of course the base model comes on these steel wheels. So, with the steel fitted, as it is right now:
can I just drive at normal speeds or should I be limiting progress to 30mph - or whatever - due to the wheel not being an alloy?
For your Perusalsorry Charlie, ET figures?
Thanks Charlie, Andy and all. I just never came across that terminology before. Offset - Inset - Stud pitch circle diameter - boss diameter - Rim width and diameter - Rim profile ("J" for instance being a common one) and so on. At Firestone I wasn't involved in wheel design just supplying and fitting tyres to wheels supplied by the teams and then taking tyre temperatures and wear projections during practice before races and interpreting them for the teams so they could make beneficial adjustments to suspension setups and calculate likely pit stops when endurance racing.Sorry Jock
ET : Rim offset![]()