Puncture - URGENT help needed...
Discussion
Typical, going to the Reading Festival of Motoring tomorrow (now today - Sunday) to show my car with the Berkshire TVRCC, and notice a puncture while cleaning it - there's a screw embedded in the tyre. Re-inflated it, and it went down 4psi over 8 hours.
Rang around, everywhere closed (Saturday evening).
1. Does anyone know a tyre place local to Wimbledon/Kingston/Chessington that can fit a tyre on Sunday morning?
2. Am I right from reading other posts that the Bridgestone SO2 255/35 ZR18 is no longer available?
3. If I have to change to another type, eg SO3, will I have to change the other good rear tyre as well to keep them matched?
4. If I have to change both tyres, which is the better tyre to go for, Toyo, or Bridgestone SO3's.
5. Anyone got a spare SO2 for a Tuscan in reasonable condition that I might buy?
I'm confident that nothing will be open first thing in the morning to get a new tyre....so will try slow and steady to Reading checking the tyre every few miles (have a portable inflator thingy). Is this safe (noting that the pressure stayed up over 8 hours, then took a couple of miles test drive, and the pressure was still the same)???
Steve (not wanting to let Berks TVRCC down)
Rang around, everywhere closed (Saturday evening).
1. Does anyone know a tyre place local to Wimbledon/Kingston/Chessington that can fit a tyre on Sunday morning?
2. Am I right from reading other posts that the Bridgestone SO2 255/35 ZR18 is no longer available?
3. If I have to change to another type, eg SO3, will I have to change the other good rear tyre as well to keep them matched?
4. If I have to change both tyres, which is the better tyre to go for, Toyo, or Bridgestone SO3's.
5. Anyone got a spare SO2 for a Tuscan in reasonable condition that I might buy?
I'm confident that nothing will be open first thing in the morning to get a new tyre....so will try slow and steady to Reading checking the tyre every few miles (have a portable inflator thingy). Is this safe (noting that the pressure stayed up over 8 hours, then took a couple of miles test drive, and the pressure was still the same)???
Steve (not wanting to let Berks TVRCC down)
Take your time and I can't see a problem, the screw will not come out, I have driven with a screw in my tyre for over a week before!!!!, just kept putting air in every few days!!!, some where like kwik fit might be open, if the screw is in the centre of the tyre or just not near to the walls then they will fix it quite easily, shouldn't cost more than a fiver!!!
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Luca,
I have one 18" part-worn S03 that I can bring with me tomorrow morning?
-andy-
Can you fit it in?
I've been trying to reach you, where have you been...isn't it bedtime??? ;-)
I'm going to have to leave early, as I'm going slow...aiming to go past Tolworth around 7.20am...interested. I'll perfectly understand if you're not, as why should you go slow when you don't have to???
S
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I have driven with a screw in my tyre for over a week before!!!!, just kept putting air in every few days
Yes, and if the tyre blows, you can always get a new one. And if you kill yourself driving on a known bad tyre, you always get three lives before its game over, don't you?
touchy!!!!, Tyres do not normally blow out because of one nail or screw in the middle, Yes when fixed it is perfectly safe, I had a tyre fixed just on the edge of the wall which they are not supposed to do but it was a friend and he new that I new it could blow at extreme speeds, Was fixed for 7 months in which time I did speeds in excess of 170, It never blew and in the end I had to replace it due to tyre wear!,
Hooray first cheap repair on the car quote:
touchy!!!!
No, not really. Just an observation. Your choice.
After the TVRCC track day at Oulton park last year, someone pointed out to me that I had a screw embedded in the offside front tyre. Not very good for a track day, but I drove on it to the nearest dealer and got a new tyre. Just a risk I could choose not to take.
If screws are in the middle of the tread a good repair will be fine, we used to used the mushroom type where the patch has a thin round piece of rubber attached to it, this was pushed through the tyre from the inside then the patch at the end was vulcanised to the tyre.
If the tyre has a puncture in the shoulder it shouldn’t be repaired as when the sidewall flexes it will slowly rip the patch off.
If the tyre has a puncture in the shoulder it shouldn’t be repaired as when the sidewall flexes it will slowly rip the patch off.
Went to Esher Tyres - recommended by Mole Valley as they take great care with expensive wheels...
Took them 30 mins to take the tyre off the rim, difficult for them due to the low profile (255/35), and it was very apparant that I'd driven on it while flat. There was a good cupful worth of rubber shavings lying at the bottom of the tyre, that had been scraped off. The sidewall had scroch marks from the heat build up, and was blistered in several places, showing the strands of fabric (or something looking like fabric). Sh*t, B*gger, and F*ck. What I hope would be £17 +vat to repair the tyre proved significantly more expensive.
Luckily I'd brought a spare lent to me by Sixspeed, which although was an S03 (mine are S02) and a slightly different size and profile, I could get it fitted and get home to decide at my leisure what I was going to do, rather than be forced into a quick decision at the tyre place that I might regret later.
Luckily, the tyre place had an S02 in stock, their 'last one', and the exact same size. I nearly smiled with joy, except that the screw causing the puncture in the first place was 'looking at me' and laughing.
Replaced tyre and balanced the other wheels, which were really out of balance and overtightened, for £260 inc. VAT
Skint and unhappy now.
Steve (will have to sell his next video production rather than freebies)
Took them 30 mins to take the tyre off the rim, difficult for them due to the low profile (255/35), and it was very apparant that I'd driven on it while flat. There was a good cupful worth of rubber shavings lying at the bottom of the tyre, that had been scraped off. The sidewall had scroch marks from the heat build up, and was blistered in several places, showing the strands of fabric (or something looking like fabric). Sh*t, B*gger, and F*ck. What I hope would be £17 +vat to repair the tyre proved significantly more expensive.
Luckily I'd brought a spare lent to me by Sixspeed, which although was an S03 (mine are S02) and a slightly different size and profile, I could get it fitted and get home to decide at my leisure what I was going to do, rather than be forced into a quick decision at the tyre place that I might regret later.
Luckily, the tyre place had an S02 in stock, their 'last one', and the exact same size. I nearly smiled with joy, except that the screw causing the puncture in the first place was 'looking at me' and laughing.
Replaced tyre and balanced the other wheels, which were really out of balance and overtightened, for £260 inc. VAT
Skint and unhappy now.
Steve (will have to sell his next video production rather than freebies)
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Glad the car is once again happily on the road...
H
But I haven't told my wife what the cost is yet (hint hint !)
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Bad luck Luca, but if it is any consolaton, your video is my screen saver in the office, and it has not gone unnoticed by the general populous here.
David M5 TVR
hmmm...marketing opportunity me thinks
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