No Spare Wheel - What to do?

[The Mad Monk]

Newish car. No spare wheel. What should I do?

Buy a large aerosol of tyre gloop?

Make sure I have a good breakdown service?

Leave a spre wheel at home - better make that two, the fronts and rears are different sizes?

Start believing in the power of prayer?

Any other suggestions?

[The Mad Monk]

Plymo said:

I have a "string" type repair kit though I've not used it - I want to try it out on an old tyre first to see what happens. But again it's only useful with a normal puncture rather than anything catastrophic.

What's a 'string' repair kit?

[The Mad Monk]

The other thing I forgot to mention is (are?) runflats.

[The Mad Monk]

What about run flats?

Do they work?

[The Mad Monk]

stevieturbo said:

The Mad Monk said:

What about run flats?

Do they work?

What is your expectation of "work" ?

Would they enable you to drive slowly to a safe place ? probably.

Would they enable you to continue as normal ? No.

And of course with runflats TPMS must be working to alert you of the loss of air.

Do they do what it says on the tin?

I have TPMs (or summat) So presumably a message comes up on the screen warning of pressure loss. I then have 50? miles at a maximum of 50 mph, to get me home, or to my favourite tyre suppliers?

Is that how it works? My apologies for the naive questions.

[The Mad Monk]

Sorry. Next question.

I recently bought this car. How can I tell if it has run flats on? Is there a notice on the side wall?