On 12/08/2016 20:59, NY wrote:
I wish we had a Construction and Use regulation which said that in order
for cars to be used in the UK, they had to be designed by the
manufacturer so they have a full-size, fully-serviceable spare wheel
which is capable of being driven on for as far as you like and at the
same speed as the normal tyre - in other words, the same tyre as the
four normal ones, although maybe on a plain steel wheel instead of a
fancy alloy one. So as they used to make spare wheels until about 20
years ago.

There are quite a number of cars that have different sizes of tyres
front and rear. Mine is one of them. I think a space saver spare is a
better option than two spares. Especially as I get punctures no more
than every few hundred thousand miles. (and probably tomorrow!)

Andy

On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 22:15:11 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote:

On 12/08/2016 20:59, NY wrote:
I wish we had a Construction and Use regulation which said that in
order for cars to be used in the UK, they had to be designed by the
manufacturer so they have a full-size, fully-serviceable spare wheel
which is capable of being driven on for as far as you like and at the
same speed as the normal tyre - in other words, the same tyre as the
four normal ones, although maybe on a plain steel wheel instead of a
fancy alloy one. So as they used to make spare wheels until about 20
years ago.

There are quite a number of cars that have different sizes of tyres
front and rear. Mine is one of them. I think a space saver spare is a
better option than two spares. Especially as I get punctures no more
than every few hundred thousand miles. (and probably tomorrow!)

Andy

Logic suggests that you have a spare for the smaller wheel - this should
also replace the larger wheel short term and be safer than a space saver.

Cheers


Dave R



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On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:54:24 +0000, 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

Just an update:

I heeded the majority advice and took the car to our local tyre place.

They put the car up on a hoist, and pulled out a very short piece of metal.

No charge, no problem.

So option (1) would, it seems, have worked.
However you can't really beat free.


Cheers


Dave R


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