T350 tyre blow out!!
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As a lot of you who went to the Power and Passion bash will know we had a tyre let go on the M4, despite it being damn cold standing on the safe side if the armco barrier, we were actually smiling, as we have never been waved at by so many TVR's.
Thanks To the Surrey RO (and Monkeh) for stopping and lending us their Sprint...Did Diane give it back???
I think that we were waiting for around an hour, before being loaded onto the back of a total lift AA lorry, who was so attentive with the car!!!(very nice Man!!) we stopped at reading services where he used his own phone to call everyone he knew in the tyre game, nobody had any Toyos until Monday midday at the earlest. He then called ATS in Reading who had a Michelin with a totally different tread pattern, but it had to do or we were on our way home to Essex.
So i now have one of the latest F1 style tyres to sell with less than 300 miles on it(cost me £184)any takers for a £100.
So does anyone know where i can get a part worn rear passenger tyre (TOYO) for my T350C, if you do? please mail me via my profile.
Dave
>>> Edited by valhalla on Tuesday 28th September 00:31
Thanks To the Surrey RO (and Monkeh) for stopping and lending us their Sprint...Did Diane give it back???
I think that we were waiting for around an hour, before being loaded onto the back of a total lift AA lorry, who was so attentive with the car!!!(very nice Man!!) we stopped at reading services where he used his own phone to call everyone he knew in the tyre game, nobody had any Toyos until Monday midday at the earlest. He then called ATS in Reading who had a Michelin with a totally different tread pattern, but it had to do or we were on our way home to Essex.
So i now have one of the latest F1 style tyres to sell with less than 300 miles on it(cost me £184)any takers for a £100.
So does anyone know where i can get a part worn rear passenger tyre (TOYO) for my T350C, if you do? please mail me via my profile.
Dave
>>> Edited by valhalla on Tuesday 28th September 00:31
seasider said:
Pleased you were both Ok Dave...
Any idea why it went?
No idea Derek, it went down slowly, so i was able to pull over safely, pumped up the tyre with an air arsehole, most impressed with that!!! off we went, doing around 45mph in the slow lane, when suddenly the car started to vibrate rather a lot, but i was able to coast to a stop without applying the brakes.
whatever it was that i hit has taken a chunk out of the front alloy, deep scoring around the inner rear wheel arch, and exited taking a piece of body work from the rear wheel arch, which i don't think i can mend myself this time, because its on the yellow paint. now comes the expensive bit, because of the amount of tread left on the other side,i am going to replace both tyres.so the grand total sofar is £450 including the cost of the temporary michelin F1 tyre.
Dave
Sorry Derek..Still trying to work on that one. STOP,
just incase you havent bought the tyre yet,try Johnsons Tyres as they are dirt cheap,got some new SO3's for £70 each and they sell 18 inch F1's for £80, they sell on e-bay too.By far the cheapest i've found.
www.johnsonstyres.com/
h
just incase you havent bought the tyre yet,try Johnsons Tyres as they are dirt cheap,got some new SO3's for £70 each and they sell 18 inch F1's for £80, they sell on e-bay too.By far the cheapest i've found.
www.johnsonstyres.com/
h
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