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Jul 24th, 2014, 22:23 | #1 |
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So glad I have a proper spare tyre
The start of the summer holidays and we are off towards the motorway. Just before I heard a familiar repeating echo from the parked cars. I was hoping I had just picked up a stone. 8 miles on the motorway at 80 in the fast lane there was a brief loud noise from the front left. I thought the car felt different and it slightly pulled to the left and then there it was ... the sound of a deflated tyre. So off onto the hard shoulder for a quick check. We had planned for some delays but not necessarily for a flat tyre.
We were off to the port for my wife's first cruise - me and the children were only participants. 20 minutes flat with a little help from my wife and off we went. The kids were impressed. And I had only just the week before had a patch in the front right tyre and 8 weeks ago I had a puncture in the rear tyre on the motorbike.... The last flat tyre at speed on a motorway I had in my father's car when I was probably 8. The hole was too big for the foam spray and I do not know whether we would have got to the boat on time with a teeny weeny space saver. |
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Jul 26th, 2014, 17:11 | #2 |
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Well done ... but ... 20 minutes?
I guess holiday stuff had to be unpacked and repacked ... We once pulled in behind one of them Honda civics with triangular spaceship styling. Poor woman had no spare : her front tyre had cooked and shredded itself so any kind of sealant was pointless. Nightmare.
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Jul 27th, 2014, 12:18 | #3 |
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I know it should have been 20 seconds or less... but my pit stop crew did not have the quick jacks, pneumatic guns and, yes, there was still some luggage in the boot obstructing quick access to the spare wheel.
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