Bald tyres

[john_p]

If you finish a trackday and realise that one or more of your tyres is a bit dodgy (or a bit illegal), and assume you can't get to a local tyre merchant to buy a new tyre, what do you do?

I'm a RAC member, will they pick me up from the side of the road and take the car home? (Spare set of wheels at home). Or is that pushing my luck slightly

I'd probably just risk it but the 3 points is a bit of a concern

[jv_as]

take a spare?

[john_p]

Front and rears are different sizes, and my non-track wheels are an inch bigger anyway

Do you think RAC will believe me if I say "I just noticed it got like that?"

[adrianr]

Check the small print - some policies have an exclusion if you 'fail to carry a suitable spare wheel'. Can mean they will still help you, but may charge for their services.

So bring a space saver and the number of a few mobile tyre fitters?

AdrianR

[edited cos I just remembered the old trick of carrying and fitting a broken version of some minor but crucial and unobtainable component when you can't be a**ed to drive home from an event.....]



>> Edited by adrianr on Tuesday 26th August 12:52

[v8 jago]

Carry a spare tyre with you then if youhave two bald tyres when you finish your track day put a nail through the bald tyres phone the recovery and tell them you have two punctures and only carry one spare wheel !!

[john_p]

Car doesn't come with a spare, only tyre goo!

RAC it is then cheers for the tip on the nails - hadn't thought of that.

[robp]

john_p said:

Do you think RAC will believe me if I say "I just noticed it got like that?"

You: "Hi, my car's tyres are bold, I've only just realised, can you take me home"

RAC man: "Why are you parked outside the entrance to Silverstone with a racesuit and helmet on sir?!"



I dont think you'll get away with it! They must be getting quite a bit more of this now, you hear stories of people blowing the car up (or crashing it) and then pushing it halfway down the road and claiming an "accident or breakdown"

[m-five]

robp said:

I dont think you'll get away with it! They must be getting quite a bit more of this now, you hear stories of people blowing the car up (or crashing it) and then pushing it halfway down the road and claiming an "accident or breakdown"

I've seen this done, but the trick is to get a recovery truck or friend with a big enough trailer to take you far enough away to reduce suspicion. 5 miles used to be enough, but I think 25 miles in the norm now!

NOTE: I have never done this (honest)!

[jj.]

A friend who used to race saloon’s a good few years ago (Slick 50 challenge) – had to have RAC membership to race in the series. And I think back then they did a motor sport option (or something – basically it covered you for motor sport incidents).

After every race meeting they used to always be a couple of low loaders come in to pick up the cars, as you’d guarantee there would be some damage, and part of the regs included that you could not trailer the car to or from the event, i.e it had to be driven (thus road legal).

Several times he used to state to them, ‘the car is not driveable, I need a low loader’. And sure enough about an hour or two later, out would come some chappie in his Escort van, only to say, ‘oh, I can’t fix that, you need a low loader’…

I can see why they have now stopped this sort of coverage….
jj

[v8 jago]

I have worked as a recovery driver before and if we went out to someone that had broken down outside a race track we just used to take then back acording to which policy they had never bothered questioning then as if its some RAC contractors they get paid and its extra in there pocket.