Hurrah a puncture!

Psymonkee · 21 Jun 2008 at 10:29

Yay my second ever puncture and boy am I not happy

New tyres all round and less than 4k into the set I have a puncture in the front right. barely an inch from the edge so I'm guessing not repairable

I would provide a picture but bluetooth and vista apparently = no way :/

Had a quick ring round and the only place to be able to do the job locally is wanting £150 for the single tyre

(225/45/R17 Y)

If only they were a little more worn I could have changed both fronts - as it is I'm stuck with sourcing the exact same tyre as I have :/

Just at the start of my holiday as well....

monkey_boy · 21 Jun 2008 at 13:41

What has made the puncture?

What car is it?

How hard do you drive?

If it's a nail or similar, and it's not an uber high performance car and you don't live on the edge of grip all the time, then Tyreweld it. If your car's FWD then it'll be easy as pie, it WILL last and you pocket £150 until you decide to put 2 new ones on the front and put your good one in the spare. I might get flamed for this but i did it on reccommendation from my tyre place, when i got a punture on my rear tyre on the VFR and it was fine for the rest of the life of the tyre. Admittedly I probably would've needed a few more brave/stupid pills to do if it had been my front tyre.

Steve · 21 Jun 2008 at 14:06

What tyre? seems a bit pricy for that common size unless its something exotic

Pyscho_Si · 21 Jun 2008 at 15:10

Run Flat by any chance? Cost me £340 to replace two the other month.

Begbie · 21 Jun 2008 at 16:19

£150 for one tyre?

Psymonkee · 21 Jun 2008 at 16:32

Not a run flat

Just a regular Michelin Pilot Primacy I needed. Cheapest I found it was £110 plus local fitting. Told several days for delivery so tried etyres....

etyres said they could do it

Nothing happenend for nearly 2 days so I rang the fitter to ask what was going on. Fitter told me he didn't cover St.Andrews as he was based in Falkirk (60 miles away and the wrong side of the Forth Estuary)

etyres said they'd try and find someone else - that was thursday night. This morning they said the might be able to get someone to fix things the middle of next week :/

Cancelled that and had to go locally - Only place in town with a Pilot Primacy was looking for £150

Also it was a screw pretty close to the edge of the tyre

Certainly not repairable.

Begbie · 21 Jun 2008 at 16:48

I would've bought two new tyres for the same price.

ste_bla · 21 Jun 2008 at 18:02

monkey_boy said:
If it's a nail or similar, and it's not an uber high performance car and you don't live on the edge of grip all the time, then Tyreweld it. If your car's FWD then it'll be easy as pie, it WILL last and you pocket £150 until you decide to put 2 new ones on the front and put your good one in the spare. I might get flamed for this but i did it on reccommendation from my tyre place, when i got a punture on my rear tyre on the VFR and it was fine for the rest of the life of the tyre. Admittedly I probably would've needed a few more brave/stupid pills to do if it had been my front tyre.

Tyreweld for a permanent fix, wtf??

If its just a nail then an inch in from the side can be fixed for £10-15

Lopéz · 21 Jun 2008 at 18:06

Psymonkee said:
Also it was a screw pretty close to the edge of the tyre Certainly not repairable.

It would have to be virtually in the sidewall to not be repairable, have you actually seen what goes into a tyre repair?

Psymonkee · 21 Jun 2008 at 22:22

Not exactly - only had 1 puncture before this and it was almost dead centre. Got the picture off my phone now. Place I went to wasn't happy to repair it.

See what you think...

Lopéz · 21 Jun 2008 at 22:25

Psymonkee said:
Place I went to wasn't happy to repair it.

Bet they were happy to sell you a new tyre though.

I've repaired ones like that in past with no issue.

Doonhamer · 21 Jun 2008 at 22:34

Lopéz said:
I've repaired ones like that in past with no issue.

Same, its getting close to border line but I would have repaired that.

chaparral · 21 Jun 2008 at 22:46

Should be no problem to repair that :confused:

Doonhamer · 21 Jun 2008 at 22:51

Was a bit slow and only just realised that picture was what he was on about in the op. No way I would be ditching that tyre for that, especially at that cost. :eek:

loltim · 21 Jun 2008 at 23:10

Easilly repairable, take it elsewhere mate.

Vertigo · 21 Jun 2008 at 23:17

Begbie said:
£150 for one tyre?

I got ripped off to the tune of £150+ by Kwikfit earlier this year for a single Pirelli 225/40/18

233 · 21 Jun 2008 at 23:25

local tyre fitter quoted me 370 for a pair of dunlops for the lcr 225/40/18's 219 quid fully fitted a pair from black circles

mejinks · 22 Jun 2008 at 00:45

I get charged £180 for a pair of Kumho 245/35/r19 and thats with fitting :confused:

And thats definately a repairable. I know, I've had it done closer to the edge than that before.

loltim · 22 Jun 2008 at 01:01

mejinks said:
I get charged £180 for a pair of Kumho 245/35/r19 and thats with fitting

Kumho are rubbish though aren't they?

PardonTheWait · 22 Jun 2008 at 01:18

That's repairable, easy!

I got a screw in the back tyre of my Fazer, the tyre was about two weeks old so I got it repaired. I commute at about a million miles an hour every day (possible exagguration, but it's a fast litre bike, so it's not delicate to tyres) and it's been absolutely fine, I've done hundreds and hundreds of miles on it with no problems at all, it doesn't let air out any quicker than a non-repaired tyre either. If I can get a repair on the back tyre of my bike, that'll be fine