How many punctures do you get in a year

[NelsonP]

As the topic title says - how many punctures do you get in a year, on average?

I've had a few recently - all nails through tyres. So I'd say I get around 3-4 a year. I'm wondering if that is high?

[GroundEffect]

I've had one in the last 5 years.

[trickywoo]

Depends on mileage and if an actual air loss situation or seeing something stuck in and having time to repair.

Between two cars doing about 10k miles each it'll be rare to have a year without some kind of tyre related incident.

Last one was a mangled table fork through the sidewall - flat at home overnight.

I've only had one puncture in 23 years that needed the wheel to be changed at the roadside.

[Monkeylegend]

Seems high to me, how many miles do you do?

I was averaging 90k a year up to last August and have had 3 from memory in the last 12 years.

[RizzoTheRat]

I think about 4 in cars and 3 in motorbikes in 25 years

[uuf361]

I've never had one in almost 25 years of driving - I think I might be rather fortunate.

[Truckosaurus]

I've had 2 in the last 5 years (10k miles per year) both repaired for c£20 each time.

[jkh112]

Depends on where I drive. When I regularly visited a new industrial estate I often picked up punctures. Now that I do not have to visit there I have not had a puncture in a number of years.

[trickywoo]

uuf361 said:

I've never had one in almost 25 years of driving - I think I might be rather fortunate.

If you've never had a nail or screw in a tyre either you are indeed very lucky.

[Riley Blue]

Three cars on the road, two punctures in over twenty years. One when I hit a fist-size rock and nicked a sidewall, the other a slow puncture which comes and goes over a period of months.

[Barra06]

10 years of driving in the UK, had one screw that was nicely wedged in the tread and caused a slow leak. repaired for about 15 quid IIRC.

Having just written that I now fully expect a nail imminently

[Digga]

Mrs Digga used to have 3 series BMWs with the M-Sport package, so big wheels and low-pro tyres. She used to get loads of punctures - damned things seemed to have magnets inside of them, hoovering up any and every nail, bolt, tack and bit of scrap on the road.

Runs a RR now and has reduced to once in 3 years.

[R8VXF]

On my first slow puncture in 14 years of driving. Need to get it checked out really.

[NelsonP]

Hmm - thanks folks.

I had some building work done last year and although ran a magnetic broom over my (gravel) drive several times after the works were finished, perhaps there are still some left.

Either that or:
- I regularly drive somewhere where I pick up punctures (can't think where though)
- there are some scrotes that keep putting nails under my tyres

[M1C]

I've been driving for 16 years and have had 23 cars and i've had:

One actual 'blow' when driving (oo-er matron!!!) which luckily was at low speed (matron)

Probably...once of getting to the car and seeing a flat that wasnt there the day before

And probably...3 or 4 slow punctures

over the course of my car-dom so far...dom.

[wseed]

Do you drive close to the kerb? I'd only had one since I started driving until a few years ago when I had 3 in a year (all near side). I put it down to a combination of frequent visits to an industrial estate and driving in the gutter where a people create 2 lanes out of one on my way home. I now don't pull right over so early and have had none in the last 2 years.

[stephen300o]

Nearly thirty years, and no punctures, now fate it is your turn to take note and deal me one...

[Over over under steer]

One in the last eight years - from coming completely sideways out onto a bypass late in the evening for a laugh (wide open, grass run offs, no one around). Guess that one I was probably asking for.

Used the tyre sealant stuff and the garage said that once that's on there they cannot repair. Is this true?

[Conscript]

I went from when I started driving in 2006 to 2014 without a puncture, then got a screw in the tread of one of my rear tyres.
They were both due for replacement anyway, so bought two new tyres.
About three weeks later, another puncture in one of the new tyres.

So 8 years with no puncture, then 2 within a month

[Doofus]

January 1987 - October 2014 (27.5 years) = Nil.
November 2014 - December 2014 (2 months) = 9. NINE! All on the same car. All £200 per corner.
January 2015 - date = Nil.