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emicen said:
Are some cars just more prone to picking up punctures than others?
I'm sat in the waiting room having my cars 7th puncture looked at in 3yrs.
Obviously the push to wider tyres means they sweep more of the road but this is ridiculous!
3Series by any chance ? I found my run flats seemed very prone to picking up screws.I'm sat in the waiting room having my cars 7th puncture looked at in 3yrs.
Obviously the push to wider tyres means they sweep more of the road but this is ridiculous!
There is more likely to be a correlation between driving past a construction site (or living near someone doing a bit of DIY, or driving over a gravel drive with a high flint content, or any of a number of other rational reasons) than there is that particular cars attract punctures.
As for run flats - they have a tyre pressure monitoring system - you get a slow puncture and a red light comes on. On a car without a TPMS you only find out about a slow puncture when you check your tyres (almost never for most drivers) or when your tyre looks flat (which it might take months after it's started to lose pressure, and depending on the cause of the initial pressure loss might not even happen) or when the garage who services it puts some more air in and bothers to tell you.
So tyre air loss is easier to detect in cars with runflats/TPMS which might make it seem more common, but it isn't.
I park on a lot of flint, and trackday type tyres get less damage than tyres with lots of snipes like winters. I know, it's a bit sad inspecting tyres for damage when I swap them over, but it's also a reason to have a nice little sit down after doing all the work.
As for run flats - they have a tyre pressure monitoring system - you get a slow puncture and a red light comes on. On a car without a TPMS you only find out about a slow puncture when you check your tyres (almost never for most drivers) or when your tyre looks flat (which it might take months after it's started to lose pressure, and depending on the cause of the initial pressure loss might not even happen) or when the garage who services it puts some more air in and bothers to tell you.
So tyre air loss is easier to detect in cars with runflats/TPMS which might make it seem more common, but it isn't.
I park on a lot of flint, and trackday type tyres get less damage than tyres with lots of snipes like winters. I know, it's a bit sad inspecting tyres for damage when I swap them over, but it's also a reason to have a nice little sit down after doing all the work.
Edited by Captain Muppet on Friday 4th May 09:53
paintman said:
Be worth having a look before you leave home just to be sure someone isn't leaving screws/nails etc under your tyres.
That brings back memories. I had a neighbour a few years back in London (she's a TV personality on charities) who I filmed on 3 occasions placing the same type of brass wood screw under the rear offside tyre of my XKR. In the spate of 18 months I went through 6 tyres.
That cost her quite a bit
but the defense she came up with as to why what she did wasn't criminal damage was pretty phenomenal. Some people are just mental. And riddled with CCJ 
DonkeyApple said:
That brings back memories.
I had a neighbour a few years back in London (she's a TV personality on charities) who I filmed on 3 occasions placing the same type of brass wood screw under the rear offside tyre of my XKR. In the spate of 18 months I went through 6 tyres.
That cost her quite a bit but the defense she came up with as to why what she did wasn't criminal damage was pretty phenomenal. Some people are just mental. And riddled with CCJ
Details please................I had a neighbour a few years back in London (she's a TV personality on charities) who I filmed on 3 occasions placing the same type of brass wood screw under the rear offside tyre of my XKR. In the spate of 18 months I went through 6 tyres.
That cost her quite a bit
but the defense she came up with as to why what she did wasn't criminal damage was pretty phenomenal. Some people are just mental. And riddled with CCJ fizz47 said:
DonkeyApple said:
That brings back memories.
I had a neighbour a few years back in London (she's a TV personality on charities) who I filmed on 3 occasions placing the same type of brass wood screw under the rear offside tyre of my XKR. In the spate of 18 months I went through 6 tyres.
That cost her quite a bit but the defense she came up with as to why what she did wasn't criminal damage was pretty phenomenal. Some people are just mental. And riddled with CCJ
Details please................I had a neighbour a few years back in London (she's a TV personality on charities) who I filmed on 3 occasions placing the same type of brass wood screw under the rear offside tyre of my XKR. In the spate of 18 months I went through 6 tyres.
That cost her quite a bit
but the defense she came up with as to why what she did wasn't criminal damage was pretty phenomenal. Some people are just mental. And riddled with CCJ GhostDriver said:
PoleDriver said:
5 in two years with a BMW 1 series with run-flats.
Average over 10 years with 5 other cars... 1 every 3 years.
Go figure!
Used to get at least 3 a year with my mini's run flats. Common IssueAverage over 10 years with 5 other cars... 1 every 3 years.
Go figure!
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