Pubic service poncement...
After 'doing the air' on the old mans tyres earlier today, we arrived home. Smoking a cigarette I was casually looking at one of the tyres that had always had a look of being under inflated. When I noticed a bulge... oh poo, thought I, a new tyre will be needed, pulling off the plastic wheel disc, I discover the rim is very dented, the cause of the bulge a 3 inch long gash deep into the side wall above the wheel dent.

A quick oh buggery, thats 25 quid for a new tyre conversation, and so I grab the instruments to swap the wheel with the new spare.

I touched the nuts, they were all less than finger tight... significantly less than finger tight, a tightness that I suspect the plastic wheel trims would have played a part in their final unwindings...

So in brief, if you've jsut bought a car, please go and check the wheel nuts, as we'd just been doing 80 on a dual carriage way, with a faulty tyre held on with hope.
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 23:59, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

ALWAYS!!!
check your nuts.


that is all x
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 17 Mar 2009, 0:07, Reply)

That is sound advice


And be sure to check your tyres as well.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Tue 17 Mar 2009, 3:41, Reply)