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Spare tyres (lack of) - ron - 17-10-2012
Would you buy a car with only a puncture outfit instead of a spare wheel?
RE: Spare tyres (lack of) - Muppet1 - 17-10-2012
No, I like the idea of having a spare wheel as if you are doing 70 on the motorway your tyres knackerd by the time you get stopped, Or even something as mundane as hitting the kerb.
RE: Spare tyres (lack of) - taxi - 17-10-2012
No, prefer spare tyre but would also keep tyre foam onboard as a backup
RE: Spare tyres (lack of) - j90xxx - 17-10-2012
Becoming 'fashionable' now not to have a spare, not even a space-saver. Mate of mine has a new car (can't remember what) that has a tube of foam and that's it! Don't think I'd be happy with that.
RE: Spare tyres (lack of) - thurrockdave - 17-10-2012
(17-10-2012, 08:43 PM)j90xxx Wrote: Becoming 'fashionable' now not to have a spare, not even a space-saver. Mate of mine has a new car (can't remember what) that has a tube of foam and that's it! Don't think I'd be happy with that.
Smart ForTwo - no spare but a nice can of foam.
At least it has a decent excuse with having two sets of completely different sizes of wheel front and back.
RE: Spare tyres (lack of) - j90xxx - 17-10-2012
Remembered now.
It's a Vauxhall of some description. Meriva, possibly?
The spare was an optional extra.
And on a slightly different subject...
Many new trucks now have the passenger seat as an option. If you don't order one; you don't get one!
All to do with cost I suppose?
RE: Spare tyres (lack of) - geoff - 17-10-2012
(17-10-2012, 07:42 PM)ron Wrote: Would you buy a car with only a puncture outfit instead of a spare wheel?
Only if it came with some decent tyre irons and an inner tube :whistle::whistle:
To answer your question....absolutely not apart from when buying my Berlingo which came without a spare wheel ( it was a bargain buy )
In between buying and getting a spare wheel I had a puncture and had to use a can of the jollop you put inside the tyre, luckily I had one from my touring caravan days and was able to use this..... it wouldn't inflate the tyre enough to make my journey home up the motorway and luckily I was in work where a foot pump was available.... So .....
Absolutely no !!!
RE: Spare tyres (lack of) - Opensauce - 17-10-2012
This is a feature I do like about the Mk3 Berlingo. The full size spare has been retained, when many new models no longer have spares or only a thin temporary spare. I swap spare across the back every 3mnths.
RE: Spare tyres (lack of) - evdama - 17-10-2012
Are we talking about the aerosol foam that re-pressurises the tyre as well ?
The stuff that doesnt work?
I put OkO blue,road spec version in the cars and the green version in all the other rides.
I cant guarantee it works for every eventuality but I haven't had a puncture in 20 years of using it...
RE: Spare tyres (lack of) - andy-womble - 17-10-2012
(17-10-2012, 09:39 PM)evdama Wrote: I put OkO blue,road spec version in the cars and the green version in all the other rides.
I cant guarantee it works for every eventuality but I haven't had a puncture in 20 years of using it...
When I worked for the council we used to use OKO on a wheeled-loading shovel that was handling incinerated ash waste. Inevitably it had nails and other metallic inclusions and prior to using OKO was plagued with punctures. OKO definately helped in a lot instances but once the tyre did start to have punctures it was scrap.