On Friday, 12 August 2016 13:04:20 UTC+1, wrote:
On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 9:54:27 AM UTC+1, David wrote:
Had the car serviced the other day, and they noted a nail in a rear tyre,
but that there didn't seem to be any leakage.

I see two obvious options:

(1) Remove the nail myself and if there is no air leakage job done. If air
leaks, take to tyre place to fix.

(2) Take tyre to tyre place to fix - which may just result in paying for
them to do the first part of (1).

Going route (1) assumes that if the nail hasn't penetrated the inner
casing (or not enough to cause a leak) then all is O.K.

Does this seem a reasonable approach?

Cheers


Dave R

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Costs £10 for a puncture repair at my local place. There's only been two times they haven't done it on the spot:
- When it had been driven on for about 20 miles on it flat, causing serious damage to the inside of an almost brand new tyre (and I saw the damage - still have the tyre on my old tyre pile).
- When it was close to the sidewall, and it needed to be sent off to be done. May have cost £20 in this case.

Given the tyres are ~£150 new I've no problem with this, and wouldn't bother to give it a go myself.

Look at it as an opportunity to find a decent workshop. If they just quote you silly money for new then go elsewhere but leave the tyre in and drive slowly to a well respected local garage.

The days of making a fool of yourself with a modern masterpiece of engineering faded a long time before top gear became popular.