In December I noticed a screw sticking out of one of the front wheels. :( Cost to repair £20.

Two weeks later, my TPM indicated one of the back tyres was low in pressure. You guessed it, another screw in the tread. . Cost to repair £20.

This week, after changing over from my winter tyres, I noticed a screw in one of the front tyres.

Cost to repair £23.

To compound matters, when the guy was typing up the bill he asked me if it was an Audi A6 or A4!!!

I've never been so insulted in my life!

Fin

That is very unlucky. I've not had a single puncture in 16 years. Are you sure you're not being targeted by a neighbour or similar?

I cannot rule that out, however, the car is kept on the drive quite a distance from the road, and is also covered by CCTV and security lights.

It may just be, I AM that unlucky!!

Fin

I'm unlucky too. Once I got a new tyre through a puncture and got a puncture on the way home from the garage in the 2mile old tyre.

One of your neighbors is a kitchen installer and has a leaky white van.

Or your local tyre fitters are paying local yoofs to stick screws in tyres.

Or you work in a screw factory.

My only two punctures in all my driving years have been caused by an irate sailor at my sailing club (I still have no idea why - maybe I ****ed him off somehow) and my ex-GF when she was liberally sprinkling upholstery tacks everywhere she could (don't drink and re-upholster).

annoying, but no too bad given that they all were repairable.

i had 3 windscreens in a 6 month period.. try explaining that one to your boss!

January 2014 - pothole - side wall rupture (front NS) - replaced both fronts as OEM conti's half worn anyway and wanted some PS3's (£125 each).

 

July 2014 - self tapping screw in tread (rear OS) but too close to shoulder radius for repair. Used matching  'spare' undamaged Conti left over from January incident. (£15 to fit tyre)

 

October 2014 - self tapping screw in tread (front NS - again!) but too close to shoulder for repair. Another new PS3 (£116) to replace puntured one (only seen 6k miles....  )

 

Never had a puncture or tyre damaged in 7 years on my Fabia vRS, now three in 10 months. Catching up I suppose.

 

Must avoid local council amenity tip, or go in someone else's car. Both the screw punctures were noticed within 48hrs of a trip to the tip.