Flat tyre after change - fixed itself?

[trashbat]

On Friday I had a local tyre place change my tyres over to winters that I already owned.

Visually checked, all fine. Drove home, thought the N/S rear was handling a bit odd at one point, but the roads were greasy, so looked it over again, seemed OK and thought nothing more of it. Saturday morning, completely flat tyre.

Reinflated it and it's stayed up, no drop in pressure. Moved the car a little so it's not sat on the same point, still OK.

Do I make myself late for work on Monday by taking it back in, or is there a fair chance it was just a bad seal/stuck valve/whatever that going flat & reinflation has resolved?

[The Moose]

If it doesn't go down, what are they going to do?!

[jagracer]

I've had this a couple of times, I bet it goes down again. It may have a fine split or hole that has to be in a certain position to open up.

[trashbat]

Well, exactly. But then if I get a flat on the M3 when I could have just taken it round the corner, I'll feel equally stupid.

[Riknos]

My MX-5 once had a "flat" tyre that I spotted once when parked up. thought I had a puncture as I found nails etc on the side of the road near where parked so pumped it up and watched it for a few days - nothing. Was fine for months afterwards until I sold it, never lost any more pressure than normal. The tyres were perhaps a couple of years old so maybe a sticking valve or something?

[73mark]

Take the wheel off pump it right up submerge it in water see the bubbles.

[V8RX7]

Frequently after changing it's poor seating on the wheel - if it stays up I wouldn't worry.

But carry a can of Tyre Foam.

Despite what people say you can fix punctures etc after it's been used

[AJB]

Once I pumped up a tyre and heard the valve hissing as soon as I took the pump off. I thought I'd need a new valve, but after putting a bit more air in it must have seated properly that time, and I never had any more trouble from it at all. If you're lucky, it could just be that the valve hadn't seated properly.

[Captain Muppet]

I get random flat tyres, but only when parked at work, and only during the evenings if I work late. I assume the cause is a massive wker.

[996TT02]

Valve did not seat properly first time round.

I very carefully checked and adjusted tyre pressures the eve of Euro travel.

The next morning I found a flat...

Took it to tyre repairer as soon as I arrived at destination, could find nothing wrong, re-inflated, still holding air to date, around 3 years later.

[mybrainhurts]

Captain Muppet said:

I get random flat tyres, but only when parked at work, and only during the evenings if I work late. I assume the cause is a massive wker.

How would doing that deflate your tyres?

[TooMany2cvs]

996TT02 said:

Valve did not seat properly first time round.

I very carefully checked and adjusted tyre pressures the eve of Euro travel.

The next morning I found a flat...

Took it to tyre repairer as soon as I arrived at destination, could find nothing wrong, re-inflated, still holding air to date, around 3 years later.

Yep, I've had the same.