How f***ing annoying

[jimxms]

Last night I had to pop out to get some meds for the wife (who has the flu). Walking up to the car I noticed the front tyre was almost flat. Not a big surprise as I had a suspicion that it had a very slow puncture and the car had been sitting unused all week.

So I decide to drive the car to the nearest petrol station which is just a few mins down the road so I could use their air pump.

By the time I got there the tyre was completely flat and the car barely drivable. I parked up next to the pump, put in my 50p (50p for f*ing air???) and.......nothing.

The sodding machine wouldn't inflate a completely flat tyre. It seems that the pump in question needs to get a reading of the current air pressure before it attempts to inflate it. As my tyre was 0psi, it wouldn't do jack!

Now my car is stuck at the petrol station and I need to go out and grab a cigar lighter powered one at lunch

Not a cool story bro

[Magic919]

Isn't there a button for that? Pumps I've seen need a button pushed to make them inflate fully flat tyres.

[Jayho]

Isn't there usually a button to press when the tyre is completely flat?

[D1bram]

Couldn't just stick the spare on? Or have used a foot pump at home?

Shouldn't really have driven it knowlingly with a flat tyre as it wasn't roadworthy.

[FloppyRaccoon]

As said, there's almost always a flat tyre button.

[jimxms]

Magic919 said:

Isn't there a button for that? Pumps I've seen need a button pushed to make them inflate fully flat tyres.

Didn't notice anything other than the up down buttons.....but i'll take another look today when its lighter (and probably go apest at missing something obvious)

[jimxms]

D1bram said:

Couldn't just stick the spare on? Or have used a foot pump at home?

Shouldn't really have driven it knowlingly with a flat tyre as it wasn't roadworthy.

Wasn't about to go to all that trouble just to pick up some paracetamol for the wife tbh.

The road from my house is all private aside from a roundabout at the end which leads you up a slip to the garage in question. Was doing about 10mph the whole way, so no biggie really.

[Fish981]

jimxms said:

Wasn't about to go to all that trouble just to pick up some paracetamol for the wife tbh.

The road from my house is all private aside from a roundabout at the end which leads you up a slip to the garage in question. Was doing about 10mph the whole way, so no biggie really.

Except the tyre is now probably toast, they really don't like running on the sidewall.

[Alfanatic]

There might be a button on the machine, but I find it's worth having a home pump anyway. More convenient and saves me 20p (I must live in a cheap neighbourhood) and a search for a working garage pump every two weeks.

[jimxms]

Fish981 said:

Except the tyre is now probably toast, they really don't like running on the sidewall.

No great loss tbh. Only had the car a couple of months and the dealer kindly fitted some new 'Sunny' tyres to it which are laughable in this weather.

Come to think of it, I wonder if the tyres aren't seated correctly. They all have needed topping up a couple of times, but none so much as the one in question.