How dangerous is a screw in a good trye??

[y2blade]

Monkeylegend said:

teambeer said:

I've had a screw firmly stuck in the tread towards the outside of the rear wheel on my golf for the last 8-10 months, it happened a matter of days into the tyres being fitted (typical!). It's worn down and sits in between blocks of tread. Tyre looses about 10 psi/month as a result. Doesn't bother me and as it's pretty much screwed into the tyre don't see it coming out in the foreseeable future.

Just hope this post doesn't come back to haunt you.

indeed

for the sake of £10 I'd have got it repaired as soon as I'd spotted it

[Matt_N]

teambeer said:

I've had a screw firmly stuck in the tread towards the outside of the rear wheel on my golf for the last 8-10 months, it happened a matter of days into the tyres being fitted (typical!). It's worn down and sits in between blocks of tread. Tyre looses about 10 psi/month as a result. Doesn't bother me and as it's pretty much screwed into the tyre don't see it coming out in the foreseeable future.

You do know that tyres can be repaired dont you?

[john_p]

teambeer said:

I've had a screw firmly stuck in the tread towards the outside of the rear wheel on my golf for the last 8-10 months, it happened a matter of days into the tyres being fitted (typical!). It's worn down and sits in between blocks of tread. Tyre looses about 10 psi/month as a result. Doesn't bother me and as it's pretty much screwed into the tyre don't see it coming out in the foreseeable future.

fking hell

[sam303]

Petrolhead_Rich said:

you are probably going to end up loosing pressure after a while

teambeer said:

Tyre looses about 10 psi/month as a result.

road_rager said:

occasionally you'll loose presure on a long fast run

Can I just point out that the word 'lose' only features the letter 'o' once. Likewise the words 'losing' and 'loses'.

Why does NEARLY EVERYONE think it is spelled with 2 'o's?

[stevieb]

john_p said:

teambeer said:

I've had a screw firmly stuck in the tread towards the outside of the rear wheel on my golf for the last 8-10 months, it happened a matter of days into the tyres being fitted (typical!). It's worn down and sits in between blocks of tread. Tyre looses about 10 psi/month as a result. Doesn't bother me and as it's pretty much screwed into the tyre don't see it coming out in the foreseeable future.

fking hell

Why take the risk? for the sake of a £10 for a repair (Free at some garages) get it fixed.

What if the tyre wnet pop you lost control along a busy road and ended up having a head on collision at that speed. It is going to end at best with some serious injuries to all involved.

[fareaster]

I've had two screws in the last 6 months (probably using the wrong aftershave!). Both were in BMW runflats, the first was adjacent to the sidewall and therefore not repairable. Drove around very carefully (no spare.....) for the few days it took for the replacment tyre to arrive. By the time it did the screw had fallen with no loss of air pressure. When the tyre came off to replace there was no internal damage, it hadn't penetrated fully, probably would have been OK. Put it in the garage as a spare. Second was more towards the centre and repairable, vulcanised patch on the inside.

[Hugo a Gogo]

worst offender is VAG with the big daft screws that hold on their plastic undertrays

[ManOpener]

Hugo a Gogo said:

worst offender is VAG with the big daft screws that hold on their plastic undertrays

Yep. I got a puncture in my Golf from going up my drive, which is very steep. Unless you reverse up, you hit the under-tray on the pavement (and if you reverse up, you bash it going down) and I hit it hard enough to snap the plastic, which caused me to run over my own fixing screw. Epically poor design.

[luke44]

i just looked at my rear right tyre and found a screw after (last night) the under-inflation light popped up so i checked the pressure and it was on 2.4 bar but it is on 1.5 bar so the warning come up